K.P.S.M GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS

Pharmacists play professional roles in different aspects of drugs and diseases management. Pharmacy practice, a discipline of pharmacy, helps in the development of professionalism in pharmacists. As drug experts, pharmacists are mainly engaged in diseases state management, extemporaneous compounding, health psychology and patient counseling, patient care, drug abuse prevention, prevention of drug-drug and drug-food interactions, minimizing adverse drug reactions, solving problems of incompatibilities such as pharmaceutical, therapeutic and pharmacological incompatibilities, etc. Clinical interventions are also under the jurisdiction of pharmacists, where they have the right to refuse drug dispending under certain circumstances, to recommend changes and or additions of drugs to patient's pharmacotherapy, to adjust the dosage as per requirement, to manage the total parenteral nutritions (TPN) of the patient, etc. However, there are a number of pharmacy practice areas where pharmacists can render professional services.