NINE STAR PHARMACIST CLUB
This club is a platform for pharmacists to become effective healthcare team members. Nine Star Pharmacist club provides students with an opportunity to combine various aspects of academic and/or vocational learning into personal action.
Objectives:
To be effective healthcare team member the club covers the activities related to following roles
Caregiver: Pharmacists must provide caring services of the highest quality, and must view their practice as integrated and continuous with those of the health care system and other health professionals.
Decision-maker: The foundation of the pharmacist’s work must revolve around accurate decisions made or taken regarding appropriate, efficacious, safe, and cost-effective use of resources (e.g., personnel, medicines, chemicals, equipment, procedures, and practices).
Communicator: The pharmacist must provide a link between physicians and patients, and to other health care professionals. He must have effective patient communication skills and it may help him/her to provide better pharmaceutical care to the community by identifying the patient’s problem and requirements, ensuring the quality of patient life.
Manager: Pharmacists must have the ability to manage natural and commercial resources which include manpower, physical, and financial resources.
Life-long Learner: The concepts of life-long learning must begin while attending pharmacy school and must be supported throughout the pharmacist’s career. Pharmacists regularly update their knowledge and skills in order to keep up with the current trends in issues related to drug therapy management.
Teacher: One of the pharmacist’s responsibilities is to assist with the education and training of future generations of pharmacists and the general public. The dynamic fashion of pharmacy teaching is not only to import the skill and knowledge to others; it also offers an opportunity for professionals to gain new knowledge and to fine-tune existing skills.
Leader: The pharmacist also plays a leadership role in the healthcare system to make decisions, communicate, and manage effectively.
Researcher: Research is not just for academicians. A great deal of research takes place at the grassroots level. Research findings can impact all sectors of the pharmacy profession.
Entrepreneur: Pharmaceutical businesses have infinite opportunities, more so for pharmacy graduates. The current scenario is that many entrepreneurs with little or no knowledge of pharmacy set up ‘pharmacy shops’ to procure and dispense medications, under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.
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