What are the roles of pharmacist and what does a pharmacist do regarding their work in various sectors!!!!!

1. What does a Pharmacist do?
Prepared by:
Deepak Dinesh Shukla
Kashi Santoshkumar Ojha
(I.C.P.R)

2. Who is a pharmacist?
• A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense
medicines or drugs.
• Cultivation of medicinal plant, extraction, Synthesis, Clinical and
non-clinical experiments, Dispensing , compounding, monitoring,
marketing, authorization.

3. Roles of Pharmacist:
 Related to store
• Proper Legal Documentation
• Proper Placement of license
• Proper recording and history of bills
• Socially active
 Related to patient communication
• Language
• Tone
• Speed
• Overall confidence

4.  Related to medicines
• Proper storage equipment’s
• Storage on Classification
• Expired drugs to store in disposal boxes
 Related to handling of Prescription
• Receiving
• Reading and checking
• Compounding and packaging
• Labelling and counselling
• Pricing
• Dispensing and recording.

5. Other roles:
• Prescription for narcotic drugs
• Computer use for documentation
• Providing review to manufacturer’s
• Proper interaction
• Total calculation of medicine dispensed
• Whether loss/profit
• Making people understand

6. Pharmacist role regarding PATIENT’S
• Counselling patient’s
• Reviewing medication profile
• Monitoring side effects
• Proper checkup
• Weekly session

7. Sectors of Pharmacist
Health care system
Clinical Pharmacist
Industrial
pharmacist
Drug Inspector &
Government
analyst
Academic
Pharmacist
Community
Pharmacist
Medical
Pharmacist
Research and
Development
Wholesaler
&
Manufacturer
Hospital
Pharmacist

8. • Community pharmacist
The one who are most accessible to public and sell medicine with or without prescription on a legal license.
• Clinical pharmacist
Pharmacists that are experts in the therapeutic use of medications
Knowledge of drugs and effects
Provide medication therapy evaluations
Types of Pharmacist

9. • Industrial Pharmacist
Manufacturing and Development
Marketing and Distribution
Quality control and assurance
• Regulatory pharmacist
Obtain authorisation of medicines
Registration of medicines

10. • Herbal Pharmacist
Cultivation of medicinal plant
Harvesting
Extraction
Purification and identification of API
• Medicinal Pharmacist
Drug Discovery
Effect of drug on patients
New synthetic drug formation

11. • Hospital pharmacist
Work in hospital.
Maintain drug dispensing record, selection of drug and monitoring of a patient.
DTE member
• Academic pharmacist
Teachers and professors
• Veterinary pharmacist
An animal health professional

12.  Government sector Pharmacist
• Drug Inspector
• Legal permit to Pharmacist
• Government Hospital Pharmacist
 Wholesaler and Manufacturer Pharmacist
• Selection of drug
• Preparation of drug in large volume
• Transporting of drug
• Stock management
• Formulation

13. Conclusion
• Pharmacist is only person responsible for Drug reaction and therapy. People already manage
or treat large proportion of their ailments without consulting a Doctor of Pharmacist. However
pharmacist can play a key role in helping people to understand the adverse effect of drug.
Pharmacist should be given the right for primary medication of patient.
• “Right drug to right patient at right time in right dose through right route in
right way” is the whole and sole responsibility of pharmacist.
Reference
• Dr.Pankaj Kusum Ramdas Khupse, Role of pharmacist
• Health Education and Community Pharmacy by P.C. Pandya, Z.Y.K. Zafer .
• Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence by B.S Kuchekar .

14. Thank you!!