Pharmacy Services
The Pharmacy is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers a range of services, including:
Inpatient Care Pharmacy Service
- 24/7 working under supervision of qualified pharmacists
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
- Inventory and expiry management
- Medication Reconciliation upon admission
- Nursing education
- Floor stocks, transfer kits and crash cart management etc.
- Stat order and modified unit dose drug dispensing
Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services
- Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacists
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
- Inventory and expiry management
- Patients counseling and education
- Patient education brochures and demonstration of device use
- Dispensing of vaccines and other specialized products
- Floor stocks and crash cart management etc.
Oncology Pharmacy Services
- Dispensing under supervision of qualified and credentialed pharmacists.
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
- Inventory and expiry management
- Mixing and dispensing in most ready to use form of chemo drugs including IV, IT, PO and other routes
- Patients counseling and education
- Specially designed clean room and biological safety cabinets
- Floor stocks and crash cart management etc.
Clinical Pharmacy Services
- Qualified and credentialed pharmacists conduct multidisciplinary Clinical rounds in key high risk wards (e.g. ICUs, Oncology, Transplant, Peads).
- Overview patient profile and intervene in drug related problems through phramacotherapeutic recommendations.
- Managing KPIs of clinical pharmacy e.g. renal dose adjustment, antibiotic stewardship, TDM, IV to PO switch etc.
- Managing clinical rotations of Pharm-D students of Dow College of Pharmacy.
Non-sterile Compounding Pharmacy Services
- Compound a wide array of non-sterile preparations.
- Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacist
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Inventory and expiry management
- Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
- Mixing and preparation of oral, topical compounding for OPD, admitted and discharge patients
Sterile Compounding Pharmacy Services
- Compound a wide array of sterile preparations.
- Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacist
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Inventory and expiry management
- Mixing and dispensing in most ready to use form of IV antibiotic and other IV admixtures to admitted patients
- Individualized (patient wise) Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) compounding
- Preparations of eye drops, nebulizers and intravitreal syringes
Centralized In-Patient Surgical Distribution
- Pharmacist command on surgical supply services.
- 24/7 services – coverage to all critical areas: ICUs and wards
- Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
- Intervene to avoid over/under charging of supplies
- Inventory and expiry management
Emergency Pharmacy Services
- 24/7 working under supervision of qualified pharmacist
- Maintaining optimum storage and safety requirements of emergency medicines and supplies
- Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription /medication errors
- Poison /toxicology prescription dealing & toxicology management information
- Inventory and expiry management
- Floor stock & crash cart medicines management
- Patient counseling and education
Pharmacy Supply Chain and Distribution Services
- Plans, manages, and coordinates all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of necessary materials and supplies needed to meet the changing levels of product demand
- Maintaining an uninterrupted flow of medicines purchasing & distribution of supplies
- Overseeing the ordering and packaging process
- Planning medicine/surgical supplies delivery timetables.
- Ensuring stores have enough stock to meet demand
- Inventory and expiry management
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
On the Job Pharmacy Training Program (1 year)
- The training program is designed to induct fresh graduates with min. CGPA 3.0 from all over universities and college of pharmacy in Pakistan.
- It is a structured learning experience intended to provide comprehensive exposure to health system pharmacy practice.
- Approximately 15 students are annually selected after aptitude test followed by interview of successful candidates.
- The responsibilities range from custody of drugs to more specialized tasks such as patient counseling, drug information, sterile and non-sterile compounding, point of care pharmacy practice, etc. under supervision of qualified pharmacist. S/he makes sure that in each step patient safety & rights are given paramount importance.
- Trainee Pharmacists completing this program will be capable of conducting their practice with
a high level of maturity and leadership, and be able to perform practice-related projects.
Pharmacy Observer ship Program– (4 weeks)
- The orientation program is designed for Pharmacy undergraduates from all over universities and colleges of Pharmacy in Pakistan.
- It gives an insight into the day-to-day responsibilities of Pharmacists working in a tertiary care healthcare set up in their respective specialties.
- It’s a 4-week program repeating every month for a whole year.
- Students enrolled in 8th semester & onwards of Pharm-D can apply.
- Under the guidance and supervision of registered pharmacist, the observer shall gain the experience of ambulatory care pharmacy, In- patient care pharmacy, solid organ transplant pharmacy, emergency pharmacy, clean room pharmacy, surgical distribution and clinical pharmacy.