What is pharmacy

What is pharmacy

The branch of the health sciences dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of drugs.
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The art of preparing and dispensing drugs.

Scope of pharmacy

Scope of pharmacy practice includes traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medicines, and also includes more modern services related to health care, including clinical services and reviewing drugs for safety and effectiveness, and provide information about the drug. Pharmacists and therefore, the experts on drug therapy, a primary health professionals who improve medication use to provide patients with positive health outcomes.

 Disciplines of Pharmacy

• Pharmaceutics

• Medicinal Chemistry and

• Pharmacy Practice 

Pharmacy practice areas

Pharmacy practice areas Pharmacists to practice a variety of areas including community pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and extended care facilities, psychiatric hospitals, and regulatory bodies. Pharmacists can specialize in various fields including the practice but not limited to: hematology / oncology, infectious diseases, and ambulatory care, nutrition support and drug information, critical care, pediatrics, etc..

Community pharmacy

Hospital pharmacy

Clinical pharmacy

Consultant pharmacy

Compounding pharmacy

Ambulatory care pharmacy

Internet pharmacy

Veterinary pharmacy

Nuclear pharmacy

Military pharmacy

Pharmacy informatics