Pharmacy Orientation

PHARMACY ORIENTATION

Types of Pharmacies

• Community Pharmacy 

• Hospital Pharmacy

• Clinical Pharmacy

• Industrial Pharmacy 

•   Nuclear Pharmacy                                                 

                                             Community Pharmacy  

A Community pharmacy is a pharmacy that deals directly with people in the local area.It is a community based pharmacy.It has responsibilities including compounding,counseling,checking and dispensing of prescription drugs to the patients with care,accuracy and legality.It involves a registered pharmacist when open.

Community Pharmacy Design

                                                 Hospital Pharmacy

 A hospital pharmacy is concerned with pharmacy service to all types of hospital.Hospital pharmacies can usually be found within the premises of hospital.They provide medications for the hospitalized patients only,and not retail establishments.

Hospital Pharmacy View

                                                 Clinical Pharmacy

Clinical pharmacy is the branch of pharmacy where pharmacists provide patient care that optimizes the use of medication and promotes health,wellness and disease prevention.In most hospitals,potentially dangerous drugs that require close monitoring are dosed and managed by clinical pharmacist.

                                                 Industrial Pharmacy

Industrial pharmacy is discipline which includes manufacturing,development,marketing and distribution of drug products including quality assurance  of these activities. The main activities of industrial pharmacist are;

1. Research & development
2. Manufacture & quality assurance 
3. Drug infomation
4. Patent applications & drug registration
5. Clinical trials & post marketing surveillance
6.  Sales & marketing
7. Management                                                                                                                    
   
   
   
   

              

    Major Disciplines of Pharmacy                                                                                                           

• Pharmaceutics
• Pharmacy Practice
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Concept of Pharmacy

What is pharmacy?

The word "pharmacy"is derived from the Greek word(pharmakon),meaning "drug" or "medicines".
Pharmacy is art and science of preparing and dispensing medicines,It is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effecting use of pharmaceutical drugs.

Sense of Pharmacy

General sense

It is a place or shop where drugs or medicines are sold.

General sense of Pharmacy

Professional sense

It is the profession,the members of which deals with drugs.

Professional sense of Pharmacy

History of pharmacy

The openings of the first drugstores are recorded by Muslim pharmacists in Baghdad in 754.Aesclapius is known as father of medicines.The bowl of Hygieia has been used as symbol of the pharmacy at least as far back as 1796.Hygieia was the Greek goddess of hygiene(Health).

Bowl of Hygieia

Career opportunities

>Production
>Quality control(QC)
>Quality assurance(QA)
>Research and development(R&D)
>Store
>Marketing(local,global)
>Product management
>Regulatory affairs
>Pharmaceutical sales representative(PSR)

PHARMACIST

Pharmacists are those who practice the science of medicines.They are members of pharmacy profession deaing with all aspects of drugs as

Preparation                     CombinationIdentification                   Analysis
Selection                          Standardization
Action                              Use
Preservation                     Counseling
Sales                                 Information




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