FIELDS OF PHARMACY
 Prisons
Why Pharmacy?
 A well-rounded career
 A vital part of the healthcare team
 Outstanding career opportunities
 Excellent earning potential
 A trusted profession
GOALS OF PHARMACEUTICAL
CARE
 Cure disease
 Eliminate or reduce symptoms
 Stop or slow a disease
 Prevent disease
 Diagnose disease
 Change physiological processes to
improve the health of a patient
with minimal risk
WHAT TO PHARMACISTS DO?
 Educate patients about prescription
and over the counter medications
 Advise other health care
professionals on drug decision for
patients
 Provide expertise about the
composition of drugs, including
chemical, biological, and physical
properties, as well as on use
 Ensure drugs purity and strength
 Ensure drugs do not interact in a
harmful way
WHAT ARE THE PROS AND
CONS?
PROS
 Job security
 Flexible working
 Excellent rewards
 Transferable skills
 Variety
 Opportunities in new roles/ settings
 Opportunities to specialise
CONS
 Competitive
 Long hours in certain sectors and
evening/weekend shifts
 Physically demanding in certain
sectors
WHERE CAN I WORK?
 Community Pharmacy
 Hospital Pharmacy
 Industrial Pharmacy
 Primary Care Pharmacy
 Academic Pharmacy
 Veterinary Pharmacy
 Military Pharmacist
 Regulatory Pharmacist
 Care homes
 Portfolio careers
PHARMACY EDUCATION
 All faculties of Pharmacy adopt 4
program to get B. Sc. Pharm or 6
years to get Pharm D. degree
 The courses of Pharmacy
Education:
1. Pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics
and clinical Pharmacy
2. Pharmacognosy
3. Organic Chemistry
4. Analytical Chemistry
5. Biochemistry
6. Microbiology and public health
7. Pharmacology and toxicology
8. Clinical Pharmacy
 Complementary studies include:
Mathematics, management,
pharmacy law
TYPES OF EDUCATION
NECESSARY FOR CREATING A
PHARMACIST
 Basic Science (Chemistry, Biology,
Physics)
 Clinical studies
 Technical skills
 Drug information and scientific
knowledge
 Economic knowledge
 Psychological and sociological
understanding
AIMS OF MODERN
PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION
 Provide scientific background
 Provide professional skills and
knowledge
 Provide business training
 Provide broad general education
PHARMACY PROFESSION
 PATIENT SERVICES
Direct Activities Indirect Activities
- Hospital Pharmacy - Drug promotion
- Clinical Pharmacy - Family planning program
- Community Pharmacy - Dehydration treatment
- Bio Chemical analysis program
- Microbiological - National Screening
analysis - Preventive Measures
- Immunolgical analysis - For epidemic diseases
 DRUG SERVICES
 Innovative new drugs
 Screening for effect and safety
 Analysis
 Formulation
 In process quality control
 Production
 Final quality control
 Distribution
 Ensure drug quality: Good
manufacture practice (GMP)
validation and qaulity assurance
 The production: of all human
dosage form cosmetics, vaccines,
blood products, blood replacement,
certain pesticides and drug
veterinary drugs.
CODE OF ETHICS
 Pharmacists are health
professional who assist
individuals in making the best use
of medications
 This code states the principles
fundamental roles and
responsibilities of pharmacists
 The principles are:
 Pharmacist respect relationship
between the patient and
pharmacist and this occurse by:
- Pharmacist has to maintain
knowledge
- Pharmacist asks for the
consultation of colleagues
 Pharmacist promotes the good of
every patient in a confidential
manner by considering:
 Needs stated by the patient
 Needs defined by health science
 Pharmacist respect autonomy and
dignity of each patient
 Autonomy: a pharmacist
promotes the rights of self
determination by encouraging
patient to participate in
decisions about their health
 Dignity: in all cases. The
pharmacist respects personal
and cultural differences among
patients.
“ PHARMACIST are DRUG
INFORMATION EXPERTS”
NO one knows more about
medication than pharmacist
PHARMACIST CAREER OPTIONS
 Academic Pharmacist
- teach and do research in colleges and
schools of Pharmacy.
 Community / Retail Pharmacist
- give advice to customers on how to use
prescribed medicines and will highlight
when certain medicines should not be
used in conjunction with alcohol or
other types of medication.
- retail pharmacist advice customers
about prescription and over the counter
drugs, and their possible side effects and
interactions.
 Ambulatory Pharmacist
- accommodate decreases in patient
hospital visits and inpatient days.
- they manage patients at risk for or
experiencing drug-related problems (e.g.
noncompliance adverse drug reactions)
and those with uncontrolled disease
(hypertension, diabetes, asthma)
 Hospital Pharmacy
- in hospitals , clinics or nursing homes
and advise the medical staff on the
selection and effect of drugs.
- They may perform administrative
duties, teach in schools of nursing, and
work in patient care areas as members of
a medical team. They also may be
engaged in the monitoring of drug levels
and filling orders for medications.
- There are two types of hospital
pharmacists; inpatient and outpatient
pharmacist
 Inpatient Pharmacist- this mainly
provides medications and prepares
injectables for patients staying in
the hospital. Pharmacy personnel
mainly communicate with doctors
and nurses because their patients do
not physically bring in their
prescription.
 Outpatient Pharmacist- This is
similar to retail pharmacy but in a
hospital setting, It mainly provides
service to patients who can
physically bring in their precription
to pharmacy.
- Hospital pharmacist are involved in the
 Manufacturing of sterile medicines,
such as injectable antibiotics,
nutritional infusions and sterile
eyedrops
 Dispensing of mediactions and
providing medication counselling
 Providing information on medicines
to the public and healthcare
professionals
 Managing the purchase, distribution
and inventory of medicines for the
whole hospitals
 Documents, reports, and manages
adverse drug reactions, evaluates
the appropriateness of drug use
 Involved in the general management
of the hospital as well
 Formulary pharmacist
 Near-patient pharmacist manager
- Hospital pharmacist regularly attend
ward rounds with doctors and are
involved in selecting and managing the
pharmacotheraphy of their patients, to
produce optimal outcomes from their
treatments.
 Compounding Pharmacy
 Nuclear pharmacist
-are specialty area of pharmacy practice
dedicated to the compounding and
dispensing of radioactive materials for
use in nuclear medicines procedures.
 Managed Care Pharmacist
-managed care pharmacist work for
Health Maintenance Organizations
(HMOs), helping to plan and manage
prescription drug use.
- APM SCHEME
SHORTAGE OF PHARMACIST
 HRSA Reports nationwide shortage
of pharmacists throughout U.S
various industries.
 Shortage expected to last in the
foreseeable future.
 Why?:
 Increase in number of new
prescription medicines
 Growing elderly population
 Greater demand for patient
care
 Growth in community
pharmacy

 Radiopharmacists

 Clinical Pharmacist
-are a valuable resource in providing
drug information as well as monitoring
drug interactions and drug therapy.
-Clinical pharmacists work anywhere
from hospitals to nursing homes to home
health care settings. They are focused
mainly on the patient and his or her
medication, ensuring the medication is
used appropriately to optomize
treatment.

 Home care pharmacists

-also known as home infusion
pharmacy , mainly prepares injectables
and delivers them to patients who are
critically ill at home. Home acre
pharmacist do not dispense oral or
external use medications. They will
often but still needs to communicate
with nurses and the patients to ensure
proper drug administration.

 Industrial Pharmacist
-pharmacist in the pharmaceutical
industry may advance in marketing,
sales, research, quality control,
production, packaging, or other areas.

 Research Pharmacist
-all fields of pharmacy

 Government Pharmacists
- at the state and local level they are
employed by regulatory, health and
social service agencies