Challenges of Implementing Clinical Pharmacy Services in the Palestinian Governmental Hospitals

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الملخص

Implementing clinical pharmacy services in Palestinian governmental hospitals is seriously needed and recommended. Many attempts took place to implement clinical pharmacy services within selected governmental hospitals in Gaza Strip, but non of these attempts was effective in providing wide range of clinical pharmacy services at a large scale. The recent attempt to implement clinical pharmacy services within MOH hospitals in Gaza Strip was in the year of 2004 when the General Administration of Pharmacy through its Pharmaceutical Quality Improvement Committee asked the official permission to start implement such services. An official approval from MOH was gained to start implementing such services. The objectivesof this study were first, to describe driving forces and holding back forces that affected or may affect the implementation process, second to set recommendations that will help in optimizing the effectiveness of the implementation process. A qualitative descriptivestudy was carried in the General Administration of pharmacy of MOH, the nine governmental hospitals in Gaza Strip in which clinical pharmacy services are proposed to be implemented and Al Azhar university. The study samplewas key informants from different sectors in the pharmacy field who had the experience and knowledge regarding challenges that face implementing clinical pharmacy services in Palestinian governmental hospitals. Twenty five Key informants were selected for their knowledge and expertise about the topic. Data was collected through using a focus interview loosely structured questions.Results showed that implementing clinical pharmacy services in MOH hospitals in Gaza Strip still in its primary stage and there are many factors that affect it both 8positively and negatively. Factors that would promote implementing clinical pharmacy services included improving patient's quality of life, economic efficiency, provision of an ideal team work and new step towards the profession of pharmacy. Factors that would hinder and negatively impact the implementation process included administrational and ministerial changes and instability, inappropriate work place and working environment, lack of rewards and motivation, time constrains and work overload , lack of mentality regarding the concept of clinical pharmacy and absence of knowledge and communication skills and lack of training courses provided to in practice clinical pharmacists. Conclusion: implementing clinical pharmacy in Palestinian hospitals still in its primary phase, much to be said and done in order to make it an efficient and effective process .Recommendation:A number of steps should be considered as pharmacy prepares to shift toward a profession-wide, patient-centered practice model. First theremust be a law empowerment that support the implementation process. MOH should adopt a unifying philosophy of practice that establishes the patient as theprimary beneficiary of the profession, with the pharmacist accepting shared responsibility with other health care professionals for patient care. Second, a workshops should be conducted for health care providers to introduce the term ``clinical pharmacy`` to them. Third, a clinical pharmacy a administration need to be established and it needs to be given an authority to organize the clinical pharmacy services and direct it's activities. Fourth, more effective collaboration between pharmacy educators in Al Azhar University and decision makers in the General Administration of Pharmacy of MOH will be necessary to improve clinical pharmacists practices. Pharmacy educators can strengthen their effort to develop student's abilities to function as future clinical pharmacists professionals.

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

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1696199_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

تحديات تطبيق الصيدلة السريرية في مستشفيات فلسطين الحكومية

ألقاب المؤلفين

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English

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اسم المصدر

Challenges of Implementing Clinical Pharmacy Services in the Palestinian Governmental Hospitals

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عدد الصفحات

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إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

محمد عوض

الإعداد

أميرة صدقي محمد شعث

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية