Clinical Pharmacy Career

Although Pharmacy career itself is not about just dispensing medicines, Clinical Pharmacy Career opened a new framework of opportunities especially related to patient care. Until Clinical Pharmacy showed-up, regular Pharmacy emphasized to treat medicines as simple products, without taking so much into account the effects that those could provoke in patients, or the problems derived from their misuse.

However, the concept of Clinical Pharmacy gave pharmacists the chance of taking responsibility for the way these medicines are used in patients, which allowed to change the regular professional focus into the person who suffers from medicine-related health disorders and side effects, whatever they are. Those disorders may be the side effects themselves or the fact that the desired therapeutic objective is not being reached.      

Clinical Pharmacy has been mainly developed in hospitals, where the relation with physicians is more intense and pharmacists are closer to patients, since they have an easy access to their clinical data. These two facts made possible for the ones on the Clinical Pharmacy Career achieve several goals:

1. Changing the concept of hospital pharmacy, which was popular until the 60s and considered these pharmacies as a medicine warehouse or stores with no intervention of pharmacists.
2. Getting the pharmacist into the clinic as one of the professionals able to contribute with their knowledge to improve the level and assistance of hospitalized patients.
3. The recognition of the fact that Pharmacists are professionals, qualified in certain specific areas, and rather useful in the process of taking decisions and taking part in drug-therapies.

However, these relevant concepts on which Clinical Pharmacy Career is based on are expanding to other disciplines apart from hospital pharmacy. For example, in communal pharmacy very similar concepts and orientations are being implemented under the name of Pharmaceutical Care ´.

Taking all these points into consideration, we can conclude that Clinical Pharmacy Career implies an expanded action field for those who want to get in touch with patient needs and cooperate with other health professionals as part of their job, beyond preparing and supervising medicines dosage.

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