...Tamim Alajlan SELP 530 System Architecture and Modeling 30 April 2015 Pharmacy and PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM in Saudi Arabia Tamim Alajlan SELP 530 System Architecture and Modeling 30 April 2015 Pharmacy and PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM in Saudi Arabia 1. Introduction This report includes complete details about the background of current systems of medication implemented in Saudi Arabia and the problems rising due to implementation of this system and the solution proposed to solve these problems. The communication gap among the patients, hospitals, doctors and pharmacies have raised a lot of problems and stills citizens of Saudi Arabia are facing this problem. Treatment security is usually a worldwide problem between healthcare services. Even so, the particular problems plus the future regarding drugs security with Saudi Persia have not recently been researched. Significant variables adding to drugs security troubles included infinite public entry to medications through different doctor's offices along with group pharmacies, transmission spaces concerning healthcare institutions, restricted by using important systems for instance advanced provider get accessibility, along with the possible lack of drugs security applications with doctor's offices. Problems to present drugs security training determined simply by participants included underreporting regarding drugs mistakes along with negative medicine responses, multilingualism along with vary type of qualification regarding...
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...19/11/2013 ASSIGNMENT 3 SECTION 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL TITLE Courier pharmacy in South Africa, a study into the viability of courier pharmacies in the South African market. KEYWORDS South Africa, Courier pharmacy, South African pharmacy act 1974, Good pharmacy practice, Post office strikes, Road fright strikes, Cold chain management, Retail pharmacies, Medicine. ASSIGNMENT 4 During the last decade or more the pharmaceutical environment in South Africa has changed dramatically. Laws that governed the ownership of pharmacies was changed making it possible for anybody to own a pharmacy, laws was passed that governed the pricing of medication making medicine more affordable to all the people of South Africa. Pharmacy in South Africa has always been characterised by two distinct legs from which patients could get their medication. During the last couple of years a new form of pharmacy appeared in South Africa, the courier pharmacy model makes use of courier companies to deliver medication to the patient. With mottos such as “anywhere, any place and any time” and “nowhere is to far” courier pharmacies promises patient that they will deliver their medication to them at the patient’s convenience. Medical aids tend to favour these models because they offer advantages to the schemes that retail and hospital pharmacies are not able to offer. Some of these advantages include reporting on drug usage, prescribing habits of doctors and...
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...ever growing field of pharmacy. People assume when it comes to pharmacy it’s a guy or a girl that stands behind a counter, counts pills all day, and sells them, there is actually way more to it. Pharmacy is a very dynamic field of study it’s not just someone who stand behind a counter all day, there are different types of pharmacy careers all over the country such as ambulatory care, nuclear, and of course the retail pharmacist. I will go into more detail about each of these later on in the paper, but first I want to explain and give you an idea of what it takes to be a pharmacist and show you the positive and negative aspects of the field. What it takes to be a Pharmacist, depending on where you apply to pharmacy school you’re going to run into different styles of prepharm curriculum. What I mean is some schools might require a 2 year associate degree while others may require a 4 year bachelor’s degree of Chemistry or Biology. One thing that you will run into with all Pharmacy schools though is a PCAT, which stand for Pharmacy College Admittance Test (AACP). This is a test brought around in 1974 to help eliminate student who are more likely to fail out with in the first year of Pharmacy College; the average score of acceptance for a PCAT fluctuates from school to school (PCAT). Once someone has made it through perquisites of pharmacy and successfully entered pharmacy school, they are going to spend at least 4-5 years of professional school. Pharmacy school is split up into...
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...Executive Summary One of the main challenges facing independent pharmacies is competition from larger chain pharmacies and mail order services. Apex Care Pharmacy is an independent pharmacy seeking to become more competitive with chain retailers and increase revenue by partnering with Mental Healthcare facilities. Market research has revealed that client intake at these Mental Health facilities has spiked in recent years with an average of 150 clients per facility. Obtaining business from these facilities would be a tremendous opportunity for Apex to increase customer volume and company revenue. Deliverables for this project include establishing a long-term partnership with at least three Mental Healthcare facilities. This endeavor will also increase pharmacy revenue by servicing the monthly medication needs of facility clients. Since Apex is a relatively small establishment, the project team will consist of the Project Manager who is the Pharmacy Owner, the Pharmacy Manager, the Marketing Representative, the Pharmacist, and the Pharmacy Techs. The Project Manager will oversee the entire project and serve as the final decision maker on all project details. The Marketing Rep will locate and recruit Mental Healthcare facilities, the Pharmacy Manager will handle administrative aspects, the Pharmacist will process and fill client prescriptions, and the Pharmacy Techs will support the Pharmacist in these tasks. The project will consist of a three phase process....
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...| PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEM | | Submitted by: Vijay Kumar Bhaskar Roll No.- 28 | | | | PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS Pharmacy information systems (PIS) are complex computer systems that have been designed to meet the needs of a pharmacy department. Through the use of such systems, pharmacists can supervise and have inputs on how medication is used in a hospital. Some of the activities which Pharmacy Information Systems have been employed in pharmacy departments include: 1. Clinical Screening: The Pharmacy Information System can assist in patient care by the monitoring of drug interactions, drug allergies and other possible medication-related complications. When a prescription order is entered, the system can check to see if there are any interactions between two or more drugs taken by the patient simultaneously or with any typical food, any known allergies to the drug, and if the appropriate dosage has been given based on the patient’s age, weight and other physiologic factors. Alerts and flags come up when the system picks up any of these. 2. Prescription Management: The Pharmacy Information System can also be use to mange prescription for inpatients and/or outpatients. When prescription...
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...“Practice of Pharmacy”*DOES NOT INCLUDE: other providers dispensing drugs (including nurses), hospitals engaged in compounding/ dispensing, etc | a. the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a medical order, b. the dispensing of drugs and devices, c. drug product selection, d. the administration of drugs or devices e. drug utilization review, f. patient counseling, g. the provision of pharmaceutical care, and h. the responsibility for compounding and labeling of dispensed or repackaged drugs and devices, proper and safe storage of drugs and devices, and maintenance of proper records. | “active practice of pharmacy” | the performance of the functions set out in this section by a pharmacist as his or her principal or ordinary occupation | “pharmaceutical care”Note: CAN enter into practice agreement | the provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving therapeutic outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life, including include a. the cure of disease b. the elimination or reduction of a patient's symptomatology c. the arrest or slowing of a disease process d. the prevention of a disease or symptomatology | Equipment and Reference material requirements for operating a pharmacy | * Not very specific anymore * Up to judgment of pharmacist based on what they will be doing in the pharmacy * References must be up to date, in either printed or electronic form, and available...
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...Soderland, Sr. Pharmacy Museum, sponsored by Soderlund Village Drug that examines the evolution of the American drug store with particular emphasis on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pharmacy museum is located at Soderlund Village Drug in downtown St. Peter, Minnesota and provides a unique perspective about the history of the drug store. A Brief Analysis: The Historic Drug Store The drug store, as we know it today, is quite uniquely an American concept. According to Soderlund Village Drug (2004), beyond offering traditional pharmaceutical goods, drug stores were a driving force for community action, social gastronomies and related human interactions. Explained in great detail by Joseph Fink (2012), during the early 1800's a group of concerned Philadelphia based apothecaries met to discuss the declining trade environment and ways to enhance scientific standards to protect public safety and welfare, as well as to provide improved competency levels of training for apprentices and students within the industry. The result of this meeting was the establishment of the first college to train pharmacists in the United States known as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and a prescient foretelling of changes to come. There are two main contenders in the first drugstore in America game. The first claim is attributed to a drug store located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, a rural establishment that Martha Washington was supposed to have frequented as a patient around the time of the Revolutionary...
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...see what the current state of company is and what the foreseeable future holds. SWOT Analysis A SWOT Analysis is a planning tool used to analyze an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (Nickels, McHugh, & McHugh, 2010). CVS Caremark is the potential client that this SWOT Analysis will be conducted on in order to determine if they are the proper suitor for investors. Company Overview CVS was founded in 1963 as a company that specialized in health and beauty products. Over time pharmacies were added, and CVS quickly grew in store locations over the next 4 decades by buying smaller pharmacy chains (“Our Company,” 2012). The big change in CVS occurred in 1997 with the purchase of the Revco pharmaceutical chain. Revco and its 2,500 store chain was now a part of the CVS brand and this quickly established CVS as a powerhouse in the pharmaceutical industry. Up until 2006 CVS focused on purchasing smaller pharmacy chains, by this time CVS began to focus on a different market segment, retail health clinics. With the purchase of the 500 location Minute Clinic Company, CVS now branched out into a new market segment that focused on patients getting quick and affordable healthcare which combined with getting their...
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...uestion #: 1 Which of the following does a Pharmacy &Therapeutics Committee do? (Select all that apply) A. Educates patients about medications on the formulary used at the hospital B. Dispenses medications that are on the formulary used at the hospital C. Makes decisions on whether a drug should be added to the formulary used at the hospital D. Manages the formulary to be used by physicians, nurses and pharmacists at the hospital Item ID: 1911 / 2 Item Description: Final Exam Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee ____________________________________________________________________________ Question #: 2 In a road accident in Times Square, Manhattan, the driver of one of the cars suffered a concussion which the NYPD deemed as requiring...
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...various settings that are clean, organized, and appropriate to keep medications at the right temperature and composition. Several pharmacist positions require that pharmacists stand for extended periods of time. These may include the preparation of sterile pharmaceuticals or dispensing of medication in a retail setting. * Community Pharmacy – When many people think of a pharmacist, they think of the caring individual in their local community pharmacy. Independent community pharmacies are all pharmacist-owned, privately held businesses that vary in practice setting. They include not only single-store operations but also other independent pharmacist-owned operations such as chain, franchise, compounding, long-term care (LTC), specialty, and supermarket pharmacies (NCPA, 2011). * Hospitals and other institutional settings – Pharmacists are employed in different types of healthcare organizations that require pharmaceutical support such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, hospice providers, home health agencies, and community health centers. AS part of the multidisciplinary team, hospital pharmacists may make rounds with doctors, consult with doctors and patients on treatment options, and mix specially ordered preparations (Matsoso, 2009) * Managed Care Pharmacy – The managed care pharmacist has a distinctive role in the healthcare team. A pharmacist working in a managed care environment is intimately involved in the of pharmaceutical treatment and plays a vital role...
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...Pharmacy tech is the trade that I’m in. This is a good trade to be in if you really like are very good in Math and Reading. The reason I choose this trade because in the future I would like to be on the medical field. This was one of my long term goal that would benefit me as I get older in life. Another reason I choose this trade so I can have a better life for me and my family. The hardest thing about this career is that you have to do a lot of converting and the different type of math. It would will take time to learn how to convert you measurements that you are using. Learning the different types of drugs will take a lot of time to get in your head without you needing the paper to know them. There are different types of drugs that I will have to know and what they are used for. In this career you make up to 9,347 monthly, and yearly you make 112,160. The benefits of a pharmacy job with rxpro health associate and finding out the benefits of working for one of the most respected and skilled pharmacy staffing companies in the business....
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...Assignment - 1 Pradeep Pydi Executive Summery: Supply chain management is defined as effective integration of flow of materials and information with in the process of supply and demand. This current report is based on a global pharmaceutical company, which is based in New Zealand market. The pharmaceutical company’s supply chain is quite complex and essential, as pharmaceutical products should be distributed to the end users at the right situation, reaches the right people at right time. The supply chain is also considered to be very responsible and highly sensitive as less than 100% customer service is not acceptable (PMC, 2013). In this current report is based on PharmaCo, is a NZ subsidiary company to PharmaCo Global. Company has encountered with several issues in recent times mostly with related to DEFOTS. Major issues include several orders shortages from supermarkets because of short shelf life, and also experiencing large number of complaints from hospitals and pharmacies for delivery delays. We have listed down all the issues related to PharmaCo by using geographic and thread diagrams, listed down all possible causes for the above issues. After that we can see several solutions recommended to optimize overall supply chain by using SCOR methodology. Following recommendations are made to achieve supply chain optimization and DIFOTIS – As discussed above PharmaCo needs to address and implement several issues in their overall supply chain including problems...
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...profound effect on me and on my career choice. Growing up in the Ghanaian community, I was particularly drawn to the aspect of our culture that emphasized analysis, application, and problem solving. As I matured, I discovered my natural aptitude and strong inclination with scientific subjects, most remarkably, chemistry. This spurred my early interest in the discipline of Pharmacy as a career. My grandmother, who was a local herbalist, additionally cultivated this interest. She was a woman of great knowledge and was well respected for her altruism and dedication to the alleviation of afflictions through her medicinal practice. I greatly admired and adored her. I often spent my summer holidays with her at Abaamu, a rural village in Ghana. During the time I spent with my Nana, as I affectionately called her, I marveled at how she was able to cure certain diseases using herbs she found in the forest. I wanted to know more about the toxicology and the side effects of these herbs. With a renewed sense of adventure and excitement, I vowed that I would contribute my quota to the community and the world by working in the pharmacy profession. I progressively developed a keen interest in drug delivery systems and safety. I frequently joined local campaigns that advocated for safer drug delivery to the indigenous people. On many occasions, I participated in group expeditions to rural villages to counsel and dispense medications, under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. Through that experience...
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...Melissa L. Nelcha AFT2- Task 1 Western Governors University October 25,2013 The Joint Commission has identified four distinct areas of concern within our accreditation audit. They are Communication, Information Management, Infection Control and Medication Management. While each of these is important, and vital in running Nightingale, the focus of this Summary will be on Medication Management. The reasons are as follows: * Errors can lead to increased hospital stays, possible lawsuits, and increased mortality rates, all of which affects our reputation within the community and elsewhere. * Due to the severity of the possible outcomes from medication errors, our company could end up having to pay out large sums of money to deal with repercussions of these errors in legal fees, etc. * Increasing numbers of Adverse Events can lead to a moratorium set on our facility, wherein we would not be allowed to accept any new patients, thereby losing untold amounts of money. A step this drastic can take years to fully recover from. * Having to legally inform the public of each and every adverse event coming from a Medication error could also cost us untold amounts of revenue. The Joint Commission Standard focused on in this summary will be Medication Management. There are three areas covered within the Medication Management Criteria. * Planning Medication Management processes * Labeling of Medications and devices used to administer them * Reducing patient...
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...Costco Pharmacy POM Audit Team 7 Executive Summary Design of Goods and Services- Costco can be seen to be in their maturity stages of their life. Therefore, it is recommended for Costco to expand its Pharmacy department by at least 50%. Process Design-Costco processes prescriptions and provides the prescribed drugs to customers. For each prescription, pharmacists carefully review the dosage along with other drugs you may be taking in order to prevent any chance of medications interacting with each other. They also ensure you do not receive any medication which could result in an allergic reaction. It is recommended to introduce E-prescribing in the near future as it would reduce the duration for each prescription process. Layout-The Costco Pharmacy Layout can be defined as a Retail Layout. The main objective of a retail layout is to maximize profitability per square foot of floor space. However further research will need to be conducted to make a recommendation Capacity- Even though the pharmacy department is not operating at 100% efficiency, it is still using and managing their facilities effectively, operating at 72% efficiency on a daily basis. However, future capacity planning is required as the efficiency capacity is increasing as population grows. Productivity- The labor productivity is currently5 units per labor hours while the multifactor productivity is 0.040 units per dollar. After auditing Costco’s productivity it was found that Costco should aim to increase...
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