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INTRODUCTION: As the profession of pharmacy has evolved, pharmacy education has developed to include competencies and skills related to pharmacy administration services. Competencies taught in pharmacy administration courses are expected to provide graduates with skills to effectively undertake administrative functions. Our study aimed to assess perceptions about knowledge and skills gained by the pharmacists during the Pharmacy Administration course at the School of Pharmacy, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among pharmacists working in hospitals and community pharmacies in Trinidad using non-probability convenience sampling. A structured questionnaire was distributed to 262 pharmacists who completed the Pharmacy Administration course. Two-hundred eighteen (83%) usable responses were included for analysis. RESULTS: Many (45.4%) respondents agreed that the course provided them with the knowledge of running a business, 78% said they were able to apply the skills in their practice, and 80% mentioned that the course should be mandatory. Pharmacists found that the course on business management enhanced their knowledge in the fields of managing human resources, conflict management, marketing, project management, corporate turnaround, inventory, and financial management. CONCLUSIONS: The Pharmacy Administration course in the bachelor of science degree in pharmacy programme at the School of Pharmacy, UWI remains relevant in the areas of marketing, human resource management, and inventory management. The programme can be extended to a full time masters course to interested pharmacy graduates.
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Currículo/normas , Administração Farmacêutica/educação , Adulto , Estudos Transversais , Currículo/tendências , Educação em Farmácia/métodos , Educação em Farmácia/normas , Educação em Farmácia/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Administração Farmacêutica/métodos , Inquéritos e Questionários , Trinidad e TobagoRESUMO
A utilização apropriada de medicamentos essenciais é um dos componentes de melhor relação custo-efetividade da atenção sanitária moderna. A segurança do paciente, entendida como a redução do risco de dano desnecessário associado ao cuidado, tem sido considerada atributo prioritário da qualidade dos sistemas de saúde em todo o mundo. Segundo a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), um em cada 10 pacientes sofre algum dano enquanto recebe cuidados de saúde e aproximadamente 43 milhões de problemas relacionados à segurança do paciente ocorrem todos os anos. Os Eventos Adversos (EA) são a terceira causa de mortes nos Estados Unidos da América, resultando em mais de 251 mil óbitos por ano. No Brasil, estima-se que os EA sejam a quinta causa de mortes no país, superados apenas pelas doenças dos aparelhos circulatório e respiratório, neoplasias e causas externas. Grande parte da pesquisa realizada sobre a segurança no uso de medicamentos concentrou-se no ambiente de cuidados secundários, devido à alta complexidade dos procedimentos e ao potencial de infecções adquiridas no hospital. No entanto, muitos incidentes de segurança dos pacientes hospitalizados têm suas raízes nos cuidados primários em saúde
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Humanos , Administração Farmacêutica/métodos , Atenção Primária à Saúde/organização & administração , Revisão de Uso de Medicamentos , Segurança do Paciente , BrasilRESUMO
Managing the stock and supply of medication is essential for the provision of health care, especially in resource poor areas of the world. We have developed an innovative, web-based stock management system to support nine clinics in rural Haiti. Building on our experience with a web-based EMR system for our HIV patients, we developed a comprehensive stock tracking system that is modeled on the appearance of standardized WHO stock cards. The system allows pharmacy staff at all clinics to enter stock levels and also to request drugs and track shipments. Use of the system over the last 2 years has increased rapidly and we now track 450 products supporting care for 1.78 million patient visits annually. Over the last year drug stockouts have fallen from 2.6% to 1.1% and 97% of stock requests delivered were shipped within 1 day. We are now setting up this system in our clinics in rural Rwanda.