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The document discusses the role of pharmacists in the Zambian healthcare team. It begins by defining a healthcare team as a group that shares health goals and objectives to serve community needs, comprising patients, professionals like pharmacists and doctors, and support staff. It then outlines several key roles of pharmacists: processing prescriptions accurately, providing patient care through counseling and monitoring therapeutic response, monitoring drug utilization, extemporaneous drug preparation, informing other professionals and the public, responding to symptoms and referring when needed, participating in health promotion events, and preparing pharmaceutical care plans and ensuring drug availability.

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Health Care Team

The document discusses the role of pharmacists in the Zambian healthcare team. It begins by defining a healthcare team as a group that shares health goals and objectives to serve community needs, comprising patients, professionals like pharmacists and doctors, and support staff. It then outlines several key roles of pharmacists: processing prescriptions accurately, providing patient care through counseling and monitoring therapeutic response, monitoring drug utilization, extemporaneous drug preparation, informing other professionals and the public, responding to symptoms and referring when needed, participating in health promotion events, and preparing pharmaceutical care plans and ensuring drug availability.

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LUSAKA APEX MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF PHARMACY

NAME: TEMBO STANLEY


STUDENT ID: 1801006976
COURSE: PMY 351 – PHARMACY PRACTICE
LECTURER: DR. MACHI
DUE DATE: 15th May 2020
THE ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST IN THE ZAMBIAN HEALTHCARE
TEAM

A healthcare team is a group of people who share a common health goals and common objectives
determined by the community needs to the achievement of which each member contributes in
accordance with his/her competence and skills and in coordination with the function of others.
The healthcare team is composed of the following members.
 Patients
 Professional and technical members e.g. Pharmacist, Doctors, Nurses, Biomedical Scientist,
Pharmacy Technologist, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Radiographers etc.
 Supportive staff/members e.g. clerks, accountants, drivers, human resource officers, cleaners,
security officers etc.
Basically, the Zambian healthcare team comprises of all the health workers whose role is patient
care.
Pharmacists are employed in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, regulatory control and drug
management, the pharmaceutical industry and in academic fields. In all these fields their aim is to
ensure optimum drug therapy. The role of a pharmacist in the health care team is basically
Pharmaceutical Care, and this includes the following:
 Processing of Prescriptions
The pharmacist verifies the validity, safety and appropriateness of the prescription order, checks
the patient medication record before dispensing the prescription (when such records are kept in
the pharmacy), ensure that the quantities of medications are dispensed accurately. The pharmacist
also counsels the patient before handing over the medication.

 Patient Care
The community pharmacist seeks to collect and integrate information about the patient’s drug
history, clarify the patient’s understanding of the intended dosage regimen and method of
administration and advises the patient of drug-related precautions, and in some countries
monitors and evaluates the therapeutic response.

 Monitoring of drug utilisation


The pharmacist can participate in arrangements for monitoring the utilisation of drugs, such as
practice research projects and schemes to analyse prescriptions for the monitoring of adverse
drug reactions.
 Extemporaneous preparations and small scale manufacture of medicines
Pharmacists everywhere continue to prepare medicines in the pharmacy. This enables them to
adapt the formulation of medicines to the needs of the an individual patient. New developments
in drugs and delivery systems may well extend the need for individually adapted medicines and
thus increase the pharmacist’s need to continue with pharmacy formulation.

 Informing healthcare professionals and the public


The community pharmacist can compile and maintain information on all medicines, and
particularly on newly introduced medicines and then provide this information to other health care
professionals and to patients and use it in promoting the rational use of drugs by providing advice
and explanations to physicians and to members of the public.
 Responding to symptoms of ailments
The pharmacist receives requests from members of the public for advice on a variety of
symptoms and when indicated, refers the inquiries to a medical practitioner. If the symptoms
relate to a self-limiting minor ailment, the pharmacist can supply a non-prescription medicine
with advice to consult a medical practitioner if the symptoms persist for more than few days.
Alternatively, the pharmacist may give advice without supplying medicines
 Health promotion events
The pharmacist can take part in health promotion campaigns locally and at national level
on a wide range of health related topics and particularly drug related topics or topics
concerned with other health problems and family planning. They may also take part in the
education of local community groups in health promotion and in campaigns on disease
prevention such as malaria and extended programme on immunisation.

 Preparation of a Pharmaceutical Care Plan (PCP)


 and also making sure that the needed health commodities like drugs, surgical equipment,
disinfection agents etc., are available (logistics of health commodities).
REFERENCES
1. James W. Begun & Gordon Mosser (2014). Understanding Teamwork in healthcare (3 rd ed.)
McGraw-Hill Education, USA
2. Mick, S., & White, K. (2008). Health Care Professionals. In S. Williams & P. Torrens (Eds),
Introduction to Health services (7th ed.) Florence, KY: Thomson/Delmar Learning.

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