Qais Alefan

R.Ph, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD

The health care team consists of the patient & all the health care professionals who have responsibility for patient care This team needs to be well defined, & collaboration needs to be actively sought
Pharmacists have an important role to play in this team Pharmacists role integrates pharmaceutical science with clinical aspects of patient care, clinical skills, management & communication skills, active collaboration with medical teams & solving of medicine-related problems

To be recognized as full members of the health care team, pharmacists will need to adopt the essential attitudes:

visibility responsibility accessibility in a practice aimed at the general population commitment to confidentiality patient orientation

Pharmacists will need to be competent & possess both vision & a voice to fully integrate themselves into the health care team

Research & development

Formulation

Storage
Supply Information management Dispensing Monitoring or education

Manufacturing
Quality assurance Licensing marketing Distribution

Community pharmacy (retail & other health care settings)

Hospital pharmacy (from small to large teaching hospitals) The pharmaceutical industry

Academia
Health service administration Research International health Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

Patient level
providing & managing a patients drug

Level of supply management in community & hospital pharmacy

manufacture, compounding, procurement & distribution of medicines

Institution level
medicines selection include formularies, standard treatment guidelines

System level
planning, management, legislation, regulation & policy

Community & population level

information, education & communication to promote public health

The concept was introduced by WHO & taken up by FIP in 2000 in its policy statement on Good Pharmacy Education Practice to cover these roles:

Caregiver Decision-maker Communicator Manager Life-long learner Teacher Leader Researcher