Guidelines for delivery of Pharmaceutical Services and Care in

Community Pharmacy Settings in Davao City

Main Issue

The society is going through a massive change in its health care needs and
provisions. Pharmacy itself is a profession in transition. While the profession is
changing much more rapidly, now than a years ago, there are still too many
Pharmacists who are fighting change rather than embracing it. Many in the
profession are looking for someone to blame rather than deciding what they
can do to move forward. The profession of pharmacy in Davao City can seize
the opportunity and respond to changes in the health care system, in part, by
making pharmaceutical care its mission. Pharmaceutical care is an
evolutionary and revolutionary way of practicing pharmacy. It requires
complete rethinking about how Pharmacists specifically in Davao City have
traditionally worked so far. Despite some Pharmacists confusing
pharmaceutical care with patient counseling and/or disease state management,
pharmaceutical care is far more complex and occurs many more challenges
and opportunities. It requires that pharmacists take responsibility for
preventing and solving drug related problems and optimizing drug therapy. It
does not end when the patient leaves the pharmacy. Assessing, monitoring,
documenting care and progress and follow-up care are integral part of
providing pharmaceutical care.

Significant of the Study

Being professional means that it is not solely motivated by financial gains. In

fact, the primary motivation should be service to the public. All professional
should:

 Render some specialized services to the society

 Have undergone training with specialized length and content
 Offer consistently high and ethical standards of service to the society.

These guidelines aim to provide the framework to meet the last and the most
important of the above criteria that has the potential to make pharmacy
profession relevant to the society.
Method of the Study

This study will use descriptive method specifically the surveying method in
five(5) different community pharmacy in Davao City.