My eyes was caught by this popular-search-keywords "why pharmacist paid so much" when i was googling recently. Well, it's kinda big issue bought up by some people. Without further delayed, I started to read some of the articles posted regarding the issues.
The fundamental role of pharmacists as a healthcare practitioner was to distribute drugs that had been prescribed to patients. In these days, pharmacists advise patients and health care providers on the selection, dosages, drugs interactions, and side effects of medications.
They also act as a middle person between a prescriber (doctor) and a patient. Besides, pharmacists also monitor the health and progress of patients to ensure the safe and effective use of medication. Pharmacists may prepare the prescribed medications. However, many medicines are now produced by pharmaceutical companies in a standard dosage and suitable drug delivery form. But, still certain medications have to be prepared once it is prescribed due to certain factors.
One of the most important roles that pharmacists are currently taking on is one of pharmaceutical care. Pharmaceutical care involves taking direct responsibility on the patient's disease states, medications, and the management. It helps in improving the outcome for each patient. Pharmaceutical care gives many benefits such as decreasing in medication errors, increasing patient compliance to medication regimen, better chronic disease state management, strong pharmacist-patient relationship and decreased long-term costs of medical care.
Believe it or not, pharmacists are often the first point-of-contact for patients with health inquiries. This means that pharmacists have large roles in the assessing medication management in patients, and in referring patients to physicians. Other roles include:
- compounding medicines
- pharmacokinetic of drug evaluation
- providing pharmaceutical information
- supervising pharmacy technicians and other staffs
- referrals to other health professionals if necessary
- double check of dispensing medicines on prescription
- provision of non-prescription or over-the-counter drugs
- promoting public health by administering immunizations
- assessment of patients with non-diagnosed or diagnosed conditions
- clinical medication management, including reviewing and monitoring of medication regimens
- specialized monitoring of disease states, such as dosing drugs in renal and hepatic failure patient
- providing patients with health monitoring and advice, including advice and treatment of common ailments and disease states
- education and counselling for patients and other health care providers on optimal use of medicines (e.g. proper use, avoidance of overdose medication)
With all the arguments above, do you still wanna deny our right of getting high payment?
These include the:
- Community Pharmacist
- Enforcement
- Hospital Pharmacist
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Lawyer
- Industrial Pharmacist
- Lecturer
- Researcher
- Radio-pharmacist
- Consulting Pharmacist
- home health Pharmacist
- Military Pharmacist
- Etc.
As for me, I'm more attracted to serve the patients in the hospital as hospital pharmacist or be in the industry field as industrial pharmacist. Interested to know what industry pharmacist is all about? I think I'll update on it later.
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