Pharmacy

• Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacists
• Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
• Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
• Inventory and expiry management
• Patients counseling and education
• Patient education brochures and demonstration of device use
• Dispensing of vaccines and other specialized products
• Floor stocks and crash cart management etc.
• Provision of drug information
• Training of residents and interns

• Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacists
• Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
• Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
• Inventory and expiry management
• Mixing and dispensing in most ready to use form of chemo drugs including IV, IT, PO and other routes
• Patients counseling and education
• Specially designed clean room and biological safety cabinets
• Managing specialized dosage forms like ambulatory infusion pumps
• Floor stocks and crash cart management etc.
• Provision of drug information

• Compound a wide array of non-sterile and sterile products such as ointment, creams, lotions, syrups, capsules, injectables, irrigation sol., eye preparations etc.
• Clean room as per USP 797/800 guidelines
• Horizontal laminar flow hoods
• Dispensing under supervision of qualified pharmacist
• Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for drugs & supplies
• Inventory and expiry management
• Pharmacist intervention to avoid prescription/administration errors
• Mixing and dispensing in most ready to use form of IV antibiotic to admitted patients
• Individualized (patient wise) Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) compounding

• Provision of drug or Poison management information to healthcare professionals & community (layman)
• Making drug evaluation monographs for formulary addition/deletion
• Managing publications of newsletter
• Safety alerts/memos/updates are released
• Medication Availability alerts or recall alerts are released
• Multidisciplinary Clinical rounds in key high risk wards (e.g. ICUs, Oncology, Transplant, Peads). Identifying and rectifying drug related problems
• ADR tracking and reporting – trend analysis
• Managing KPIs of clinical pharmacy e.g. renal dose adjustment, antibiotic stewardship, TDM, IV to PO switch etc.
• Managing continuous education sessions for pharmacy staff, assessment tests and trainings (brief internships and 1 year post graduate residency program)
• Managing clinical rotations of sister-concern Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (STMU) Pharm.D students

• Pharmacist oversight to entire service
• 24/7 services – coverage to all critical areas: ICUs, wards, clinics, Cathlab, ER, diagnostics and OT
• Maintaining optimum storage & safety requirements for supplies
• Interventions to avoid over/under charging of supplies
• Inventory and expiry management

The pharmacy residency program provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills a pharmacy graduate has learned during education to real patients, situation, and setting. Residents are exposed to different facets of practice and learn about the many and varied career paths available to a pharmacist today.

SIH pharmacy residency program is in line with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacist (ASHP) Accreditation Standards for International Pharmacy Practice Residency Programs (IPPRP).

Objectives

To prepare highly skilled and knowledgeable hospital & clinical pharmacists for patient care and robust medication management and use

The residents after the completion of residency at Shifa will be able to:

• Provide pharmaceutical care to diverse patient populations.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team practice to optimize patient outcomes.
• Educate other healthcare professionals, resulting in improved medication therapy.
• Provide leadership to advance health system practice and the pharmacy profession.
• Manage their own practice and engage in lifelong learning.

Closely supervised Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy Residency program conducted under a team of experienced and qualified pharmacy preceptors and pharmacy management.

Hands-on experience in reviewing medication therapy, getting involved in direct patient care activities, and chance to work in close coordination with other healthcare providers.

All training is conducted in a state-of-the-art Pharmacy Services which is ISO certified and JCI Accredited facility. Multiple rotations in the hospital sections, Inpatient outpatient, supply chain, Clinical areas, and leadership.

Follows ASHP International Pharmacy Residency Accreditation Standards. (Please visit the ASHP website for details).

Shifa qualified residents pharmacists are knowledgeable, confident, professionally groomed, and can effectively play their role in patient care in any part of the world.

For further details:     Email at  drug.information@shifa.com.pk