Study Set Content:
o Accepts prescriptions for filling
PHARMACY AIDE ROLES
o Place orders for supplies pharmaceuticals and equipment
PHARMACY ASSISTANT ROLES
o May operate cash register
PHARMACY AIDE
o Monitor inventory levels
PHARMACY ASSISTANT ROLES
Records the pharmaceutical products that is delivered to the pharmacy, store incoming stocks, and informs the supervisor of stock needs
PHARMACY AIDE ROLES
Package and arrange shipments to patients
PHARMACY ASSISTANT ROLES PHARMACY ASSISTANT
· refers to a health professional who has been registered and issued a valid Certificate of Registration (COR) and Professional Identification Car (PIC) by the PRC and the Professional Regulatory Board of Pharmacy.
Pharmacist
· refer to a person who assist the pharmacists in the different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with very minimal degree of independence or decision making and without direct interaction with patients.
• Pharmacy aides
· refer to persons who assist the pharmacists in different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established standard operating procedures and processes, with a minimum degree of independence or decision making and may have supervised interaction with patients.
Pharmacy assistants
· refer to persons who assist in compounding and dispensing of medicines in community, hospital, institutional and industrial settings or engaged in other activities under the supervision of the pharmacist.
Pharmacy technicians
An act regulating and modernizing the practice of Pharmacy in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose RA 5921
· The Philippine Pharmacy Act – Republic Act No. 10918
This Act provides for and shall govern the:
a. Standardization and regulation of pharmacy education;
b. Administration of licensure examination, registration, and licensing of pharmacists;
c. Supervision, control, and regulation of the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines;
d. Development and enhancement of professional competence of pharmacists through continuing professional development, research, and other related activities; and
e. Integration of the pharmacy profession.
· The Philippine Pharmacy Act – Republic Act No. 10918
An act to ensure safety and purity of food, drugs and cosmetics being made available to the public by creating the Food and Drug Administration which shall administer and enforce the law pertaining thereto.
· The Foods, Drugs, Devices, and Cosmetics Act – Republic Act No. 3720
This is an act made to rename Bureau of Food and Drugs into Food and Drug Administration. This act also strengthens and rationalizes regulatory capacity of the bureau by establishing adequate testing laboratories, upgrading equipment and augmenting human resource and appropriating funds.
· The Food and Drug Administration of 2009 – Republic Act No. 9711
An act that prohibits the use of counterfeit drugs and provides penalties for those who violates
· Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs – Republic Act No. 8203
Adopt, support, establish, institutionalize, improve and maintain structures, processes, mechanisms and initiatives that are aimed, directed and designed to:
a. Protect and promote the right to health of the Filipino people; and,
b. Help establish and maintain an effective health products regulatory system and undertake appropriate health manpower development and research, responsive to the country’s health needs and problems
· The Food and Drug Administration of 2009 – Republic Act No. 9711
Policy of the State to safeguard the integrity of its territory and the well-being of its citizenry particularly the youth, from the harmful effects of dangerous drugs on their physical and mental well-being, and to defend the same against acts or omissions detrimental to their development and preservation.
· Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 – Republic Act No. 9165
Intensive and unrelenting campaign against the trafficking and use of dangerous drugs and other similar substances through an integrated system of planning, implementation and enforcement of anti-drug abuse policies, programs, and projects.
· Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 – Republic Act No. 9165
Enhance its regulatory capacity and strengthen its capability with regard to the inspection, licensing and monitoring of establishments, and the registration and monitoring of health products
· The Food and Drug Administration of 2009 – Republic Act No. 9711
Achieve a balance in the national drug control program so that people with legitimate medical needs are not prevented from being treated with adequate amounts of appropriate medications, which include the use of dangerous drugs.
· Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 – Republic Act No. 9165
