THUMBAY PHARMACY-16

General information

Objectives:

The pharmacist’s role is to provide at all times, an adequate supply of safe, effective and good quality drugs in appropriate dosage forms consistent with the needs of the patients and to rationalize drug utilization in collaboration with the medical staff. The Thumbay Pharmacy satisfies the need for pharmacists performing their role as the vital link in the chain of health professionals dedicated to patient care.

Institutional Goals for the Hospital Pharmacy Service:

1. To provide the benefits of a qualified hospital pharmacist to patients and to the allied health professionals and institutions.
2. To assure a high quality of professional practice through the establishment and maintenance of standards of professional ethics, education, attainment, and promotion of economic welfare.
3. To add value to individual patient care by ensuring safe, accurate, rational and cost-effective use of medicines.
4. To engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary practice with other healthcare practitioners for the purpose of improving care and conserving resources.
5. To optimize the use of human resources through expanded roles for pharmacy trainees increased utilization of automation, technology and the development of the professional role of the pharmacist.
6. To promote research in hospital pharmacy & clinical pharmacy practices.
7. To disseminate pharmaceutical knowledge by providing an exchange of information among hospital pharmacists, members of allied specialties and professions.
8. To optimize the impact of pharmacy student and resident training through the development of an educational practice model which results in the attainment of department, hospital, and professional goals.
9. To refine from time to time the purchase & inventory control system so as to standardize the availability of an adequate stock of medications at all times at a healthy profit.