What are the duties and responsibilities of a hospital pharmacist in multi-specialty hospitals?
The scope of pharmacy practice has changed drastically over the past two-to-three decades. A pharmacist is no longer just the person who counts pills. These changes have taken place at the retail level, and in institutions such as hospitals. Hospital pharmacists have multiple duties and responsibilities. This is especially true at large teaching institutions. Let me give you a few examples of what pharmacists do here at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. You are probably familiar with the job of making sure medications ordered by prescribers are available for patients. Even this seemingly simple task is actually quite complex. When an order is written, it is reviewed by a pharmacist. The pharmacist takes into account the patient’s height, weight, allergies, diagnosis and other medications when reviewing an order. This is somewhat similar to what local pharmacists do in drugstores, although the packing of the medications is probably different. In a hospital, many patients are
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