Community pharmacists are the healthcare professionals who are accessible to the public and patient and provide them the required services. Around this world, a number of people visit community pharmacies to fulfil the daily requirement of their healthcare system. And when they visit to the pharmacy, pharmacists are the first person who come to their contact and help them by providing the nutraceuticals as well as pharmaceuticals. They dispense the medicine to the patient in accordance to their prescription and sometimes without prescription when allowed (in case of OTC medicine). Apart from the supply of medicine, the pharmacists should also cover the other responsibilities like participation in healthcare programmes, patient counselling and provide information to the healthcare professionals, patients a well as public.
The main objectives and activities related to the community pharmacists are:
Prescription’s Processing: Legality, suitability and safety of the prescription is checked by the pharmacists. Not only this, the pharmacists should also check that whether the medication is dispensed to the patient with proper counselling or not.
Clinical pharmacy: The pharmacist has to clarify the patient about the intended dose of the medicine and before doing so he has to collect and integrate information about the patient’s drug history.
Intensive care of drug utilization: The pharmacist has to make such provisions to monitor the utilization of drugs, such as practice research projects, and schemes to analyze prescriptions.
Extemporary research and small-scale production of medications: Pharmacists involve in the small-scale manufacture of medicines in accordance with good manufacturing and distribution practice procedures.
Health promotion: The pharmacist can participate in various health promotion programs, nationally and internationally. These programs can be on a wide range of health-related topics, like rational use of drugs, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, discouragement of drug use during pregnancy, organic solvent abuse, poison prevention or the topics which are concerned with other health problems like diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, diabetes care, leprosy, HIV-infection/AIDS, nutritional counselling and family planning.
To serve the community and to help the people as a community pharmacist, you need to have the degree in pharmacy. But to become professional pharmacist you need the degree from the best institute. For the best knowledge and professional skill, you have to opt the best college like PCTE group of institutes, Ludhiana, Punjab. PCTE is one of the best pharmacy college in Punjab because apart from the theoretical skills, this college is also providing the best practical skill. Apart from the practical in laboratory, it has a lot of other practical activities like grand Friday activity and RAWAR. In grand Friday activity, we are taking you to the different industries to boost up your skills. In RAWAR, we indulge you in some activities in which you have to dispense medicaments. Apart from this, there are other activities in which you have to visit hospitals, clinics and medical stores for the live case study. So, in my point of view if you want to pursue your career as the community pharmacist and then you have to go for the best institute like PCTE which will enhance your skills for the community.
Sujata
Assistant Professor
Pharmacognosy
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
PCTE Group of Institutes, Ludhiana
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