Community and hospital pharmacy (36 Hrs)

Theory 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Community pharmacy: definition, concept, scope (1) Patient compliance and counseling (3) Patient medication records (1) Drug information and pharmaceutical advice (4) Responding to symptoms (3) Hospital : definition, classification, function, organization (2) Hospital Pharmacy: definition, scope, personnel, duties and responsibility, location and layout, Bulk Compounding, Hospital Supplies (5) Pharmacy and therapeutic committee (2) Hospital formulary (1) Purchase and inventory control (2) Central sterile service dept (2) Dispensing to inpatients and outpatients, bed-side pharmacy, satellite pharmacy, dispensing of NDPS/controlled substances (2) Sterilization techniques & Disposal : surgical instruments, syringes, needles, catheters, rubber gloves, catheter s, containers- closures, Surgical Dressings, Gowns and Barrier clothing (3) Medicinal gases (2) Introduction to Surgical Instruments & Health accessories (2) Application of computers in community and hospital pharmacy (1)

Reference Books 1. Hospital Pharmacy -Hassan 2. Text book of Hospital Pharmacy -Blackwell Scientific 3. Text book of Hospital Pharmacy - Merchant & Qadry

Practicals 1. Identification and sterilization of various types of materials used in hospital pharmacy like surgical instruments & devices, syringes and needles, rubber tubings, absorbent cotton and gauze 2. Use of computers in drug information centre, prescription filing, documentation of information on drug interactions 3. Compendial Evaluation of Absorbent cotton and Gauze 4. Preparation & Quality control of large volume parenterals like normal saline, dextrose injection 5. Introduction to standard books like NF, USP DI, Extra pharmacopoeia. Reference Books 1 2 3 4 Hospital Pharmacy -Hassan Text book of Hospital Pharmacy -Blackwell Scintific Text book of Hospital Pharmacy - Merchant & Qadry Pharmacopoeias & Formularies