In the
field of health sector, we call pharmacists as chemists, or druggists who are
healthcare professionals, and they perform in the field by giving attention on
the safe use of medicine, and make people aware about the effect or side effect
of the medicine.
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Various
Types of Pharmacists
In the
field of medical healthcare sector we see different types of pharmacists. Those
are called academic pharmacist, ambulatory pharmacist, community or retail
pharmacist, clinical pharmacist, home care pharmacist, government-pharmacist,
hospital pharmacist, industrial pharmacist, independent pharmacist, managed
care pharmacist, nuclear pharmacist, pharmaceutical industry pharmacists,
research pharmacist.
Academic
Pharmacist- These types of pharmacists serve in colleges or in schools of
pharmacy by teaching the students.
Ambulatory
pharmacist- They work on the patients who go through the risks due to having
drug related problem, likely the adverse effect of medicine or on the patients
who have some diseases which cannot be controlled fully like hypertension,
diabetes, asthma, they also function as the healthcare service providers in
village area, in their duty they keep in touch extensively with the elderly
people who have been suffering from diseases mainly mental disorder. They work
directly or through some healthcare organizations.
Community/
Retail Pharmacist- They provide the customers valuable information, about the
intake process of physician prescribed medicines, at the same time they inform
the customers the effect and side effect of the drugs.
Clinical
Pharmacist- These types of pharmacists work in the medical fields by providing
their service directly to the patients’ care and treatment, they work in
hospitals, nursing home or home health settings up, they give attention and
stress the medication of the patients properly.
Government
Pharmacist
This
professionals work for the department of US public health service, for the
veteran’s administration, the food and drug administration, and for the armed
forces of US, in the process of recruitment, they are employed by the
regulatory health and social service agencies.
Home Care
Pharmacist
They are
commonly known as home infusion pharmacy, in the service, they make mainly
injectable materials and supply them to the treating patients, but never they
dispense oral or external use of medicine, they work as per instruction of the
doctors. If required they should contact with patients and nursing staff for
administrating the medicine. The pharmacists serve in the healthcare sector;
they monitor the drug therapy, and make injections, solutions, which they
inject into the bodies of the patients. Among them, some do specialization in
some fields, like intravenous nutrition support, oncology (cancer),
nuclear pharmacy that is used for chemotherapy, and pharmacotherapy which
is the branch of treatment with the patients of mental disorder with drugs,
these types of pharmacist perform diligently with various ways some time as
professional, or managerial or as an administrative authority. They are
entitled to hire employee, they can keep business records too.
Hospital
Pharmacist
These
types of pharmacists work in hospitals, nursing homes or clinics, they play
important part as supervisory or administrative authority, this time they can
advise the medical staff of the clinics. They become an important part of the
hospital team management, they dispense medicines, instruct the staffs, the
pharmacists turn specialized with their studies. In these working field two
types of staffs of pharmacists one is in patients’ pharmacist and the other is
out patient pharmacist. The first one gives the service to the patients by
injections suffering from disease and treated in hospitals, in this system
patients cannot bring the prescription to the pharmacist physically. The second
one works like
retail pharmacists, they provide service to the patients who can
bring their prescriptions to them physically.
Independent
Pharmacist- They remain associated with the medication, administration of drugs
to the patients, dispense the medicine, as per prescription, they also supply
information about the medicines its use and over use, side effects.
Industrial
Pharmacist- They are directly related with the business, they do marketing, sales,
research, quality control, and evaluation of production of a company.
Managed
Care pharmacist- They serve in the field as
Health Maintenance Organization(HMOS) by which they help to draw plan and can manage prescription medicine
use, they work in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities,
they make sterilized solution, and buy medical supplies, they are able to make
plan about the medical drug administration.
Nuclear
Pharmacist- In this field the pharmacist use the medication therapy with such
radio active elements, in early of 1970, in the USA it was recognized by
American Medical Association, there need to be highly skilled and specialized
pharmacists for this field, but certifications are available for the
practitioner in the market.
Research
Pharmacist- They are working in the field of advancing and research of the
drugs, its use and effect, they work in hospitals and in universities.
Job
Outlook
As per
the BLS report, in the
USA
the job of pharmacist will grow up by 32% between the periods of 2010 to 2020. Here is a
pharmacy resume.
