Flashcards on Community Pharmacy: Roles and Management
Community Pharmacy: Roles and Management for Students
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Community Pharmacy
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Card 1
Question: What is the definition of pharmacy as a health profession?
Answer: Pharmacy links the health sciences with chemical sciences and is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs.
Card 2
Question: What activities are included in pharmacy practice?
Answer: Compounding and dispensing, clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information.
Card 3
Question: How are pharmacists described in relation to patient care?
Answer: Pharmacists are experts on drug therapy and primary health professionals who optimize medication use to provide patients with positive health outcomes
Card 4
Question: How is a community pharmacy defined?
Answer: A healthcare facility (pharmacy, chain pharmacy, department) that emphasizes providing pharmaceutical services to a specific community, dispenses medi
Card 5
Question: What does pharmacy automation involve?
Answer: The mechanical processes of handling and distributing medications.
Card 6
Question: What are the primary responsibilities of a community pharmacist?
Answer: Dispensing and distributing medicine, working to legal and ethical guidelines to ensure correct and safe supply of medical products (including OTC), a
Card 7
Question: What specialist health checks might community pharmacists offer?
Answer: Some pharmacists offer blood pressure monitoring and diabetes screening.
Card 8
Question: Can pharmacists form business partnerships with physicians according to the content?
Answer: Pharmacists can't form business partnerships with physicians.
Card 9
Question: How do the prescribing and dispensing functions of physicians and pharmacists differ in emphasis?
Answer: They emphasize differences in control each has over medications: physicians prescribe while pharmacists dispense and ensure correct supply.
Card 10
Question: What is the definition of pharmaceutical care given here?
Answer: The responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life.