Principles
- The pharmaceutical services management to provide comprehensive, effective and safe pharmaceutical services for patients, doctors and nurses and all health care providers, in relation to the selection of medicines and storage, preparation, distribution, dispensing, and management and ways to give them and control. The field of pharmacy services Providing pharmaceutical services to inpatients and outpatients, including daily dose system and provide sterile preparations, and regular, chemotherapy drugs and exchange control. Pharmaceutical service hospital of the armed forces in the south made up of eight pharmacies and managed electronically. We have more than 170 employees to provide pharmaceutical services that include 1.2 million annually prescription Exchange. We apply all the guidelines of the International Joint Commission (JCI) for the quality of pharmaceutical practice.
Operating pharmacy sections:
- Inpatient Pharmacy Review medications process. Preparation of therapeutic intravenous solutions and parenteral nutrition solutions. Improve follow-up practices with regard to drugs that require vigilance. Preparation chemotherapy. Daily doses for patients distribution system. Provide advice and medicines definition inpatient. Preparation out inpatient drugs. PharmNet system to support the receipt and distribution, planning and follow-up drugs.
- pharmacy services for pharmaceutical and narcotic control The application of the rules of drugs exchange in accordance with the Saudi Food and Drug Administration rules on narcotic drugs and control. Exchange and re-exchange narcotic drugs and monitoring of patients to all inpatients and outpatients. Remember monitoring and control of narcotic drugs stock.
- Clinical Pharmacy Services Clinical Pharmacy Services units, intensive care for adults, children and newborns. Provision of pharmaceutical care for patients with tumors, kidney transplantation, pediatrics, cardiology and infectious diseases. The provision of pharmaceutical care plans. Participate in daily traffic on patients with multi-disciplinary. Ensure the appropriateness of medicines and improve treatment outcomes. Supervision of antibiotics program. Follow-up treatment standards for medicines. Follow-up and reporting medical errors and side symptoms. Advisory functions in the technical committees (eg committee medication and treatment, infection control committee, the Committee on Research and ethics ... etc). Support prescriptions for special groups. Providing pharmaceutical information and the provision of services on duty. Outpatient pharmacy Review recipes medicine and ensure appropriate medicines to patients. Exchange and re-exchange drugs for outpatient auditors. Exchange medicines for emergency patients. Preparation of pharmaceutical compositions of others ready-made as well as the required concentrations of liquid medicines. Provide the necessary advice and appropriate for the patient to improve medication use and to achieve therapeutic goals with improved patient outcomes treatment.
- Achievements Pharmacy opening of family medicine and community - Abha Clinics Center. Pharmacy opening kidney center. Implementation of advanced pharmaceutical services in the new hospital building expansion of the armed forces in the south. The expansion of clinical pharmacy services to support all sections. Console Application automated system daily dose, to reduce medication administration errors. Install a secure and closed system (Exacta Mix ™) for installation and confused flour components parenteral nutrition. Application software system (Apax ™) in order to ensure safety and reduce errors in the description and calculation of the mixing parenteral nutrition solutions. Regulation of the pharmaceutical industry's annual conference, which hosts international and local speakers. Pharmacists rated educational training program, and aims to train pharmacy students in different places and settings to provide pharmaceutical services. Training and education for pharmacy technician and skills development.
- Future possibilities
Pharmaceutical services program takes into account:
- Automation of all the settings for the implementation of pharmacy and pharmaceutical tasks efficiently, in order to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors. The establishment of a pharmacy to provide pharmaceutical services Heart Center. The establishment of a pharmacy to provide pharmaceutical services diabetes center. Expansion of the pharmacy tumors. The creation of pharmaceutical services in the new hospital building expansion of the armed forces in the south Decentralization of pharmaceutical services to inpatients in all sections of the hospital. The expansion of the pharmaceutical care to cover all disciplines at the hospital, which would improve the quality of health care and ensure patient safety.