The main responsibilities of a community pharmacy include compounding, counseling, and dispensing of drugs to the patients with care, accuracy, and legality along with the proper procurement, storage, dispensing and documentation of medicines. The community pharmacist must be a qualified and pertinent with sound education, skills and competence to deliver the professional service to the community.
A community pharmacist should
(i) have a sound background of pharmaceutical care, pharmacotherapy, and health promotion.
(ii) have good communication skills with patients and other healthcare providers.
(iii) maintain a high degree of standard in products, services, and communication.
(iv) record and maintain his documents in order.
“In short community pharmacy is the drug use, control and effective application of knowledge of ethics, that assures optimal drug safety in the distribution and use of medicines and hence, it ensures maximum well-being of patients while they are on drug therapy.”
Community Pharmacy is defined broadly to include all those establishment that are privately owned and whose function, in varying degrees is to serve societies needs for both drug product and pharmaceutical service. It is the branch of pharmacy that deals with different aspects of patient care, dispensing of drugs and advising patient on the safe and rational drug use.
Dialogues between patients and physicians regarding the indication, proper use and potential adverse effects of non-prescription drugs (NPDs) should be different as compared, when if the physician has written the prescription. In the era, the cost considerations are greater than ever, NPDs should be considered and referred when appropriate, as alternatives to prescription drugs.
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