UNLABELLED The role of pharmacy has changed dramatically during the last decades, which has led to new demands on pharmacy personnel. OBJECTIVE This study aims at exploring the attitudes of Swedish pharmacy personnel on their role as public health promoters and to look at the opportunities and obstacles they identify in the efforts to widen the pharmacy remit to include a wider health approac...

BACKGROUND The concept of customer engagement and devotion has been applied in various service businesses to keep the customers with business However, a limited number of studies were performed to examine the context of customer engagement and devotion in pharmacy business which focus on the impact of customer perceptions about pharmacists, perceived quality of pharmacy structure, medication pr...

The Bologna declaration and the European Union (EU) directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications influence the mobility of pharmacy students and pharmacy professionals, respectively. In addition the Bologna declaration aims at tuning higher education degrees including pharmacy throughout the EU in order to prepare for a harmonised European Higher Education Area. The di...

1 Pharmacy, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 2 Department of Pharmacy, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, 3 School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College, Nilai, Malaysia, 4 School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor, Malaysia, 5 Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 Faculty of Pharmaceutical ...

1Associate Professor & Head Department of Pharmacology, KIET School of Pharmacy, Ghaziabad (UP) 201206, India 2Research Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, KIET School of Pharmacy, Ghaziabad (UP) 201206, India 3Professor & Head Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, KIET School of Pharmacy, Ghaziabad (UP) 201206, India 4Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, KIET School of Pharmacy,...

ROLLIN J. FAIRBANKS, M.D., M.S., is Senior Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine; DANIEL P. HAYS, PHARM.D., is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Departments of Pharmacy Services and Emergency Medicine; DAVID F. WEBSTER, M.B.A., B.S.Pharm., is Associate Director of Pharmacy Services, Department of Pharmacy Services; and LINDA L. SPILLANE, M.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Emergency ...

The past 3 decades have witnessed the evolution and refinement of clinical pharmacy. A growing body of evidence supports the proposition that ward-based clinical pharmacy practice improves patient care. The work of clinical pharmacists affects the health care system by significantly reducing mortality rates, medication errors, length of stay, and the cost of care. The Blueprint for Pharmacy, a ...

Human resources development in society or organization is a necessity to secure progress. Without such development societies or organizations fail to achieve their objectives. Human resources development is a three-stage measure to meet the requirements of each society or organization. These three stages are: a) planning and programming: at this stage qualitative and quantitative needs are dete...

OBJECTIVE To provide information for community pharmacies considering implementation of a pharmacogenetic testing service. SETTING A single community pharmacy from a regional chain. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION Community pharmacists at the study site routinely provide pharmacy services including medication therapy management, immunizations, point-of-care testing, blood pressure monitoring, and diab...

Report of the 2013-2014 Academic Affairs Committee Jeff Cain, EdD, MS, Jeannine M. Conway, PharmD, Margarita V. DiVall, PharmD, Med, Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, Paul R. Lockman, PhD, John C. Ressler, EdD, Amy H. Schwartz, PharmD, Scott Stolte, PharmD, Ruth E. Nemire, PharmD, EdD a University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky b University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Minneap...