International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences, 2023, 12, 1, 1-2.
DOI: 10.5530/ijpcs.2023.12.1
Published: September 2023
Type: Editorial
Authors: Yousef Ahmed Alomi
Author(s) affiliations:
Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Critical Care Clinical Pharmacists, TPN Clinical Pharmacist, Freelancer Business Planner, Content Editor, and Data Analyst, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
The pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care through various channels and services, including distributing medication, dispensing medicine information for patient counseling, and drug monitoring to prevent drug-related illnesses. Distributive pharmacists and clinical pharmacists provide those essential performances and activities. Besides, the pharmacy technician supports the pharmacy teams. Pharmaceutical care services expanded nationally and internationally. The pharmacy strategic plan was established several years back and eventually updated and evaluated thoroughly. Various pharmacy programs were founded, for instance, drug information services, total parenteral nutrition, medication safety, intravenous medicine preparation, and administration. Most of those services were inpatient services. However, the pharmaceutical care services vision changed by Saudi Vision 2030 towards unique and advanced inpatient services, ambulatory care, and community services. Additional new services, such as Saudi managed care services (Wasfaty), pharmacy research services, and pharmacy infection control, were planned before and recently founded. However, various ambulatory care pharmacy programs will be implemented soon. One of the critical new facilities required in pharmaceutical care is financial and accounting services. Read more…