Organization structure of hospital pharmacy

AMA Citation Gaither CA. Gaither C.A. Gaither, Caroline A.ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR. In: Zgarrick DP, Alston GL, Moczygemba LR, Desselle SP. Zgarrick D.P., & Alston G.L., & Moczygemba L.R., & Desselle S.P.(Eds.), Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al.eds. Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 4e. McGraw Hill; 2016. Accessed June 16, 2023. https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1850§ionid=128241261 APA Citation Gaither CA. Gaither C.A. Gaither, Caroline A. (2016). Organizational structure and behavior. Zgarrick DP, Alston GL, Moczygemba LR, Desselle SP. Zgarrick D.P., & Alston G.L., & Moczygemba L.R., & Desselle S.P.(Eds.), Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al. Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 4e. McGraw Hill. https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1850§ionid=128241261 MLA Citation Gaither CA. Gaither C.A. Gaither, Caroline A. "ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR." Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 4e Zgarrick DP, Alston GL, Moczygemba LR, Desselle SP. Zgarrick D.P., & Alston G.L., & Moczygemba L.R., & Desselle S.P.(Eds.), Eds. David P. Zgarrick, et al. McGraw Hill, 2016, https://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1850§ionid=128241261. Dr. Gaither is Senior Associate Dean, Professional Education Division and professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. She received a BS in pharmacy from the University of Toledo and an MS and P...

Hospital Pharmacy: Location, Layout, and staff requirements skin Location The pharmacy should be situated on the ground floor or the first floor to ease its accessibility and to provide adequate service to various departments and nursing stations. If the hospital has an outpatient department, the pharmacy or its branch should be near it. In a multi-story hospital, each floor should have a pharmacy. The layout of floor pharmacies should be such that a continuous flow of men and materials is maintained. A complete unit of the hospital pharmacy includes the following areas: 1) Office of the chief, 2) Out-patient dispensing unit, 3) Bulk compounding area, 4) Manufacturing unit for sterile and non-sterile preparations, 5) Packaging and labelling area, 6) Alcohol and volatile liquid area, 7) Narcotic vaults, 8) Radioisotope storage & dispensing area, 9) Central sterile supply area, 10) Cold storage area, 11) Research wing, 12) Pharmacy store room, 13) Library, and 14) Waiting room An out-patient pharmacy should look pleasant, and have enough space and seating arrangement for patients waiting for the medicine to avoid overcrowding. The waiting room in the out-patient pharmacy should have a professional look, bear educative posters on health and hygiene, and hold light literature for reading to engage the visitors. This puts a positive impact on the pharmacy on the visitors. To manufacture bulk preparations (like stock solutions, bulk powders, and ointments, etc.) routinely, a sui...

Organization and rigorous management of the pharmacy are crucial in all health facilities in order to: • maintain a permanent stock of essential medicines and supplies of quality; • reduce costs; • save time and optimise the work of the staff; • facilitate management and continuous consumption evaluation. In any case, national pharmaceutical policies and regulations must be taken into account when implementing pharmaceutical activities. Preliminary information Drug designation All active ingredients have an international nonproprietary name (INN). Drugs are designated by their INN in all standardised lists. The INN should also be used in standard therapeutic regimens and management documents, in order to avoid confusion, since drugs are sold under their INN or a variety of brand names, depending on the manufacturer (e.g. ampicillin may be sold as Britapen®, Penbritin®, Pentrexyl®, Totapen®, etc.). Generic drugs are copies of drugs whose patents have expired. They can therefore be made by any pharmaceutical laboratory and are most often sold under their INN or occasionally under a new brand name. Selection of essential medicines Most countries have a national list of essential medicines. If there is no national list, refer to the latest WHO list. The use of such a list presents several advantages: • it simplifies supply and reduces costs: most drugs on the WHO list are available in generic forms at affordable prices; • it facilitates co-ordination of international aid and o...

By Matt Phillion Hospital pharmacies have their work cut out for them. They need to perform mission-critical responsibilities that enable both quality patient care and reliable operational continuity. There’s value to be found in the data related to hospital pharmacies, as well, but unlocking actionable analytics and insights from metrics reporting requires the right viewpoints and skill sets. Global medical technology company “The financial performance of a hospital pharmacy department is a huge contributor to the overall bottom line of an organization,” said David Kvancz, MS, RPh, FASHP, senior vice president of Visante and the panel’s moderator. “In some cases it’s the equivalent of a mid- to large-sized company. It’s critical that we have the necessary data and analytics to move forward from a one-dimensional area” into something more expansive. Analytics: Now versus then Chad Hatfield, PharmD, MHA, BCPS, chief pharmacy officer with University of California Davis Medical Center, said that even as recently as three years ago, “it was stone and chisel with how we did analytics” compared to now. “We couldn’t get to our data, and what data we could get to we didn’t really trust,” he said. “We went from caveman days to rocket ships trying to put someone on Mars—we now have a total of four FTEs, a pharmacist, and three analysts.” IT was the backbone of this development, Hatfield notes, using Tableau and other tools to build dashboards and data sets. Jeffrey Chalmers, PharmD,...