41667 - Function and Management of Hospital Pharmacists

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to know their own specialized functions of the hospital pharmacy (clinical governance, appropriateness, pharmacovigilance, management elements.

Course contents

1. Context of the hospital pharmacy

• NHS: the role, scope and organization (structures, models, financing systems)

• The national organizational structure, regional, local for the pharmaceutical care delivery

• The hospital pharmacy in the institutional context: role, functions, purpose

2. THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY:

      2.a. Management Area

           2a.a Skills and activities

           1. Materials managed
           2. Procurement
           3. Storage
           4. Distribution (including narcotic drugs)
           5. Controls
           6. Management control
           7. Information flows
           8. Some organizational models

       2.b. Clinical Area

           1. Procedure for registration drugs and medical devices
           2. Procurement
           3. Clinical trials and ethical committees
           4. Pharmacovigilance
           5. Commissions
           6. Formularies
           7. Clinical governance and appropriateness
           8. Medication errors prevention, Recommendations, Unit dose
           9. Independent information
         10. The department of pharmacy

       2.c. Production Area

           1. Clinical galenicals Activities
             1.1 Purpose and main functions
             1.2 Equipment Anticancer Drugs

3. NOTES ON THE SYSTEMS OF QUALITY AND ACCREDITATION

4. NOTES ON SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY PHARMACEUTICAL

5. PHARMACIES FOR CONTINUING CARE

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral Examination

Office hours

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