The pharmacist should be a good and law-abiding citizen conversant with Acts and Rules governing his/her profession.
Principles of Pharmaceutical
Ethics
· The pharmacist should be a good and law-abiding citizen
conversant with Acts and Rules governing his/her profession.
· He/she should be a person with an attitude of service and
sacrifice and concern for welfare of both patients and public.
· The pharmacist must be capable of upholding honour and
dignity of the profession and not getting involved in any action which may
bring disrepute the profession.
· The pharmacist should never disclose any information about
patient or his family which he/she has acquired as part of professional
activities, unless required to do so by law.
· The pharmacist should not get involved in any unethical work
under duress or pressure.
· Unethical and cut-throat publicity of professional services
offered by the pharmacist are against basic values of the profession. The
pharmacist should not get involved in such unethical practices.
· The pharmacist should offer services directly to the public
in his/ her own premises which reflect the professional character of pharmacy.
· The pharmacist should receive the prescription of a doctor
without any comment or discussion over it. He/She should not add, omit or
substitute any content of the prescription without the consent of the
prescriber. He/She should answer any questions on the prescriber to the
customers with caution and core. In case of any error in the prescription, it
should be referred back to the prescriber for correction.
· The pharmacist should keep himself/herself abreast with the
progress of pharmaceutical knowledge in order to maintain high standard of
professional competence. He/She should exchange such information with fellow
pharmacist.
· The pharmacist as an integral component of health care team
should always endeavour to cooperate with doctors, nurses and other members of
health care system.
· The pharmacist should possess good communication skills to
be able to work closely with other health care providers.
· The pharmacist should help the client with personal
consultation and about proper use of medicines and other health care products.
The information provided must be clear, understandable, correct, up-to-date and
explicit.
· The pharmacist should be alert to occurrence of adverse
effects of medicine and same should be recorded in the individual patient
medication record.
· The pharmacist should be an active member of all
professional associations or organizations which are established with an
objective of sincerely serving the cause of the profession.
The
chariot of health care system is driven by four giant wheels represented by
doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other paramedical personnel. So long as the
four wheels of the chariot are co-axial, the chariot of health care shall march
steadily on the path of prosperity and good health. The moment there is
imbalance in mobility of the chariot due to defect in one of the wheels, the
chariot is bound to collapse mid-way, and the dream of attaining excellence in
health remains unfulfilled.
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