A Review on Scope Importance and Future Needs of Clinical Pharmacy Practice in India

A. Bharath kumar*, B. Kumar, M. Sai Pavan, D. Ramesh, M. Gobinath
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Ratnam Institute of Pharmacy, Pidathapolur, Nellore, A.P,  India

A B S T R A C T
It is a branch of pharmacy where the pharmacist provide patient care with opimum use of medications cure treatment prevention of the disease. Area of the pharmacy concern with the science and practice of rational use of the drugs. Pharmacy practice is to improve public health through ensuring safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications. Contemporary pharmacy practice reflects an evolving paradigm from one in which the pharmacist primarily supervises medication distribution and counsels patients, to a more expanded and team-based clinical role acivities to  providing patient care, medication therapy management, adverse drug reactions management, ward round particiration, drug interactions identity, therapeutic drug monitoring, drug information and poison information services, drug policies, medication chart writing drug health improvement, drug evaluation and utilisation, disease prevention acivities and pharmacovigilense, clinical research, teaching, conducting awreness[1] programes in rural areas regarding disease prevention and management. the pharmacy council of India initiated M.Pharm in Pharmacy Practice In JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore in 1995 with the support of Australian educational societies fullfledged teaching as well as clinical case based learning.
Keywords: Adverse effects, TDM, Ward Rounds, Disease, Pharmacovigilence