Regulation .16 Pharmaceutical Care Functions of the Pharmacist.
Regulation .16 Pharmaceutical Care Functions of the Pharmacist.LinkCopy Citation
The pharmacist shall be available as necessary to provide pharmaceutical care to individual patients including, but not limited to:
A.
Participating in decisions about medication use for patients including decisions not to use medication therapy as well as judgments about:
(1)
Medication selection;
(2)
Dosages;
(3)
Routes and methods of administration;
(4)
Medication therapy monitoring; and
(5)
The provision of medication-related information and counseling to individual patients;
B.
Cooperating directly with health care professionals and the patient in designing, implementing, and monitoring a therapeutic outcome.
C.
Providing care directly to the patient to improve a patient’s quality of life through achieving definite and predefined, medication-related therapeutic outcomes such as:
(1)
Curing the disease;
(2)
Eliminating or reducing a symptomatology;
(3)
Arresting or slowing a disease process;
(4)
Preventing a disease or symptomatology; and
(5)
Improving patient’s quality of life.
D.
Identifying potential and actual medication-related problems, resolving actual medication-related problems, and preventing potential medication-related problems caused by:
(1)
Untreated indications;
(2)
Improper drug selection;
(3)
Sub-therapeutic dosage;
(4)
Failure to received medication;
(5)
Over dosage;
(6)
Adverse drug reactions;
(7)
Drug interactions, including drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory test interactions; and
(8)
Medication use without appropriate indication.