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Pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacist Details:

• Job Description
• Typical Work Activities
• Contact Information

Link to Hospital Pharmacist Details (pdf)

Link to Application

Job Description:

1. Hospital pharmacists work in a hospital pharmacy service, primarily within the inpatient sector.
2. They are responsible for ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines.
3. Hospital pharmacists use their specialist knowledge to dispense drugs.
4. They work collaboratively with other health care professionals to devise the most appropriate drug treatment for patients.
5. Hospital pharmacists are also involved in preparing required drug treatments.

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Typical Work Activities:

Typical work activities include:

• Participating in ward rounds, taking patient drug histories and contributing to the treatment decision-making process.  This includes highlighting a drug's potential side effects, identifying harmful interactions with other drugs and assessing the suitability of treatments for patients with particular health conditions.
• Liaising with physicians, nurses and other fellow health care professionals to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and economic drug treatment
• Counseling patients on the effects, dosage and route of administration of their drug treatments, particularly those who require complex drug therapy
• Monitoring every stage of medication therapy to improve all aspects of delivery and reporting patient side effects
• Preparing and quality-checking sterile medications under special conditions (e.g., intravenous medications for those unable to ingest food, anti-cancer medications, eye drops, etc.)
• Ensuring medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely to ensure freshness and potency
• Ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form and dose - this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers and creams
• Being responsible for the accurate dispensing and timely distribution of drugs and medicines for inpatients or outpatients
• Supervising and checking the work of less-experienced and less-qualified staff
• Responding to medication-related queries from within the hospital, other hospitals and the general public
• Writing guidelines for drug use within the hospital, preparing bulletins and implementing hospital regulations
• Providing information to individual wards on budgets and drug expenditure
• Revision of patient drug sheets to prevent drug errors and wrong combinations. Hospital pharmacists should report directly to primary serving registrar.

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Contact Information:

Feel free to contact the DAFH Medical Council if you have any questions.

• Fax: 202-8356039, Attn: Medical Council
• Tel: 202-8356030, Ext. 4072

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Thank you for considering the Dar Al Fouad Hospital Pharmacy position.  We look forward to hearing from you via our job application.