Roles and responsibilities of Community pharmacist
2. Community Pharmacy Management
a) Selection of site, Space layout, and design
b) Staff, Materials- coding, stocking
c) Legal requirements
d) Maintenance of various registers
e) Use of Computers: Business and health care soft wares
3. Prescriptions
- parts of prescription,
- legality & identification of medication related problems like drug interactions.
4 Inventory control in community pharmacy
- Definition,
- various methods of Inventory Control (ABC, VED, EOQ, Lead time, Buffer stock )
5 Pharmaceutical care
Definition and Principles of Pharmaceutical care.6 Patient counselling
Definition, outcomes, various stages, barriers, Strategies to overcome barriers Patient information leaflets- content, design, & layouts, advisory labels7 Patient medication adherence
Definition, Factors affecting medication adherence, role of pharmacist in improving the adherence.8 Health screening services
Definition, importance, methods for screening Blood pressure/ blood sugar/ lung function and Cholesterol testing9 OTC Medication
Definition, OTC medication list & Counselling
10 Health Education
WHO Definition of health, and health promotion, care for children, pregnant & breast feeding women, and geriatric patients. Commonly occurring Communicable Diseases, causative agents, Clinical presentations and prevention of communicable diseases :a) Hepatitis
b)Typhoid,
c)Amoebiasis,
d)Malaria,
e)Leprosy,
f)Syphilis,
g)Gonorrhea and AIDS
Balance diet, and treatment & prevention of deficiency disorders Family planning role of pharmacist
11. Responding to symptoms of minor ailments
Relevant pathophysiology, common drug therapy to,- Tuberculosis,
- Pain,
- GI disturbances (Nausea, Vomiting, Dyspepsia, diarrhea, constipation),
- Pyrexia,
- Opthalmic symptoms,
- worms infestations.
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