Text Book of Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy (ER2020-25T)

   Definition, scope, national and  international scenario

   Organisational structure

   Professional responsibilities, Qualification and  experience requirements, job specifications, work load requirements and  inter professional relationships

   Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP)  in hospital

   Hospital   Pharmacy  Standards  (FIP   Basel   Statements, AHSP)

   Introduction to NAQS guidelines and   NABH Accreditation and  Role of Pharmacists

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   Pharmacy  and   Therapeutics   Committee   –  Objectives, Composition, and functions

   Hospital       Formulary        –      Definition,        procedure         for development and  use of hospital formulary

   Preparation  of Drug  lists  – High  Risk  drugs, Emergency drugs, Schedule  H1  drugs, NDPS  drugs, reserved antibiotics

   Procedures  of  Drug  Purchases –  Drug  selection,  short term,  long term,  and  tender/e-tender process, quotations, etc.

   Inventory  control  techniques:  Economic  Order  Quantity, Reorder Quantity Level, Inventory Turnover  etc.

   Inventory  Management of Central  Drug  Store  –  Storage conditions, Methods of storage, Distribution, Maintaining Cold  Chain,  Devices  used for cold  storage (Refrigerator, ILR, Walk-in-Cold rooms)

   FEFO,  FIFO methods

   Expiry drug removal and  handling, and disposal. Disposal of Narcotics, cytotoxic drugs

   Documentation – purchase and  inventory

   Drug   distribution   (in-   patients   and   out   –  patients)   – Definition, advantages and  disadvantages of individual prescription order  method, Floor Stock  Method,  Unit Dose Drug Distribution Method,  Drug Basket Method.

   Distribution    of    drugs   to    ICCU/ICU/NICU/Emergency wards.

   Automated drug dispensing systems and  devices

   Distribution of Narcotic and  Psychotropic substances and their storage

services and  incompatibilities, Total parenteral nutrition

radiopharmaceuticals

Electronic health records, Softwares used in hospital pharmacy

India and other countries

Technical definitions, common terminologies used in clinical settings  and   their  significance  such as  Paediatrics,  Geriatric, Anti-natal Care, Post-natal Care, etc.

procedure of

  Ward round participation

  Treatment Chart Review

  Adverse drug reaction monitoring

  Drug information and  poisons information

  Medication history

  Patient counselling

  Interprofessional collaboration

Pharmaceutical care: Definition, classification of drug related problems.  Principles  and  procedure to  provide  pharmaceutical care

Medication Therapy Management, Home Medication Review

states – significance and interpretation of test results

  Haematological, Liver function, Renal function, thyroid function tests

  Tests associated with cardiac disorders

  Fluid and  electrolyte balance

  Pulmonary Function Tests

Drugs and Poison  Information  Centre and their services  – Definition,  Requirements,  Information  resources with  examples, and  their advantages and  disadvantages

   Definition, aim and  scope

   Overview of Pharmacovigilance

Drug  Interactions: Definition, types, clinical significance of drug interactions