JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objective

This course is designed to impart basic knowledge and skills that are required to

practice pharmacy in both hospital and community settings.

Course Outcome

Upon completion of this course it is expected that students shall be able to:

• Understand the organizational structure of hospital pharmacy
• Understand drug policy and drug committees
• Know about procurement & drug distribution practices
• Know the admixtures of radiopharmaceuticals Understand the community pharmacy management
• Know about value added services in community pharmacies

UNIT - I

Introduction to Hospitals: Definition, classification, organizational structure Hospital Pharmacy: Definition, Relationship of hospital pharmacy department with other departments, Organizational structure, legal requirements, work load statistics, Infrastructural requirements, Hospital Pharmacy Budget and Hospital Pharmacy management Hospital Drug Policy: Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, Infection Control committee, Research & Ethics Committee, Management of Medicines as per NABH

UNIT - II

Hospital Formulary Guidelines: And its development, Developing Therapeutic guidelines, Drug procurement process, and methods of Inventory control, Methods of Drug distribution, Intravenous admixtures, Hospital Waste Management

UNIT - III

Education and training: Training of technical staff, training and continuing education for pharmacists, Pharmacy students, Medical staff and students, Nursing staff and students, Formal and informal meetings and lectures, Drug and therapeutics newsletter. Community MPP: Definition, roles & responsibilities of community pharmacists, and their relationship with other health care providers. Community Pharmacy management: Legal requirements to start community pharmacy, site selection, lay out & design, drug display, super drug store model, accounts and audits, Good dispensing practices, Different softwares & databases used in community pharmacies. Entrepreneurship in community pharmacy.

UNIT - IV

Prescription: Legal requirements & interpretation, prescription related problems Responding to symptoms of minor ailments: Head ache, pyrexia, menstrual pains, food and drug allergy, OTC medication: Rational use of over the counter medications Medication counseling and use of patient information leaflets Medication adherence – Definition, factors influencing adherence behavior, strategies to improve medication adherence Patient referrals to the doctors ADR monitoring in community pharmacies

UNIT - V

Health Promotion: Definition and health promotion activities, family planning, Health screening services, first aid, prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, smoking cessation, Child & mother care. National Health Programs- Role of Community Pharmacist in Malaria and TB

R19 M.PHARM PHARMACY PRACTICE

control programs Home Medicines review program – Definition, objectives, Guidelines, method and outcomes Research in community MPP

REFERENCES

• 1. Hospital Pharmacy - Hassan WE. Lea and Febiger publication.
• 2. Textbook of hospital pharmacy - Allwood MC and Blackwell.
• 3. Avery’s Drug Treatment, Adis International Limited.
• 4. Community MPP – Ramesh Adepu, BSP Publishers, Hyderabad
• 5. Remington Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• 6. Relevant review articles from recent medical and pharmaceutical literature R19 M.PHARM PHARMACY PRACTICE M. Pharm I Year I Sem (PHARMACY PRACTICE)