Clinical Pharmacist

Roles and Responsibilities

• Prescription Review (IP & OP).
• Maintaining Departmental Quality Indicators.
• Monitoring & documenting Dispensing errors & ADRs.
• Filling, sealing & auditing of Crash Carts every month.
• Monthly Quality audits on Nursing Stations, Pharmacies, Material store, OTs for Storage of medications, High Alert medication storage, Look Alike & Sound Alike drugs storage, Short expiry medications, Narcotics Drugs Audits etc.
• Monitoring: Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis / Restricted Antibiotics.
• Active Participation in Unit Pharmacy & Therapeutic committee meetings with presentation.
• Hospital Drug Formulary Development.
• Providing drug related information.
• Imparting continuous education & training to paramedical (nurses & Pharmacists) regarding safe & proper drug prescription & administration, Management of medications.
• Imparting continuous patient counseling regarding safe drug usage.
• Promote patient safety & clinical performance standards.
• Implementation of MoM policies & processes.
• Implementation of Sound alike look alike, high risk medications lists.
• Closures for NABH observations of departmental & external audits.