PHARMACIST: They are often called Druggists or Chemists and are very important among Healthcare professionals, focusing in the noble field of Pharmacy, which strives for safe and effective usage of drugs.
ACTIVITY SECTOR: Healthcare industry
OCCUPATION TYPE: Professional
ROLE OF PHARMACISTS:
• Checking and distribution of drugs and medicines
• Advise Health care providers
• Selection, dosage, interactions and adverse effects of medications are taken into account by the pharmacy professionals
• Compounding and dispensing of drugs
• Counseling to patients I regard to the medicines and the condition they are in
• Decreasing the medication errors
• Increase the patient compliance In medication regimen
• Bettering the chronic disease state management
• Symptom assessment for various disease conditions
• Development of safe drug policies along with the Governments
• Drug research and construction of drug formulations
• Referrals to other health care providers
• Supervision of pharmacy technicians
• Clinical medical management
Pharmacists are often the first point — of — contact between a physician and a patient. He is the intermediary between the two.
Being Noble professionals, that cares about the people in the society by striving for the well-being and better health of the people, in order to encourage the role of pharmacists, there is a day announced in respect to them.
“WORLD’S PHARMACISTS DAY”
This is celebrated on 25th September every year.
This day of September 25th is suggested by Turkish members as FIP (Fèdèration Internationale Pharmaceutiques — An International federation of national organizations representing pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists) came into existence in 1912.
This day is meant to honor all those professing and are professionals in the field of pharmacy.
PURPOSE: Its main objective is to encourage the activities that promote the role of pharmacists in improving healthy corners of the world.
The World’s pharmacist day was originally adopted in 2009 at the World Congress of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.
The current President for FIP is DOMINIQUE JORDAN.
WORLD’S PHARMACIST DAY ,2019
THEME: “ SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICATION FOR ALL”.
AIM: The main aim of the theme for 2019 world’s pharmacist day is to promote pharmacists' role in safeguarding patient safety through improving medication use and reducing medication errors.
SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF DRUGS :
EFFICACY OF DRUG is the maximum therapeutic response achievable from an applied dose.
The Efficacy of the drug can be derived from the graph plotted between The effect of drug Vs. The dose used The curve obtained is known as ‘Dose-response curve’.
SAFETY OF DRUG is the extent of acceptability of risk in a specific situation.
It is a relative term as every drug has at least a minimum amount of side effects.
It is the science of detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of side effects.
MARGIN OF SAFETY is the difference between Usual Effective Dose and Doses that cause severe or life-threatening side effects.
The theme of this current year is proposed in March 2019 by the FIP council in order to highlight the role of pharmacists in improving health care by safe usage of drugs with minimal side effects and reduced medication errors.
FATHER OF PHARMACY is Galen ( a Greek physician)
THE FATHER OF AMERICAN PHARMACY is Prof. William Procter (1817–1872).
PHARMACY WEEK is celebrated in the 3rd full week of October.
NATIONAL PHARMACY TECHNICIAN DAY is celebrated on the 3rd Tuesday of October.
CONCLUSION: Celebrating a day in the name of Pharmacists is a token of respect for Pharmacists who unfortunately are losing professional respect in the present day. But a Pharmacist is highly knowledgeable and has the capacity to advise other health care providers. It is equally important to respect the Pharmacists as we respect the other professionals.
Being a professional in Pharmacy, I rightly believe a saying- “Doctors save lives by giving drugs, but we, Pharmacists give life to the drugs”
Shouting out to all the Pharmacists a very Happy Pharmacists Day !!!
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