Introduction:

NBK hospital peadiatric pharmacy is a part of pharmacy department in Al-Sabah Hospital. The pharmacy department in Al-Sabah hospital consists of many pharmacies, the head to the department is pharmacist Salwa Al-Dahmali and there is a serereatary section. The pharmacies are as follows: Central Pharmacy, medical department pharmacy, casualty pharmacy, NBK peadiatric pharmacy, Asaad Al Hamad dermatology center pharmacy, MTC hospital for E.N.T Pharmacy, Medical Store, drug manufacturing unit and I.V room (under construction).

NBK Peadiatric Pharmacy

The pharmacy in NBK peadiatric hospital opens at the morning shift only from 7:00 am till 2:00 pm and dispenses for the following departments:

1 – Out patient and casualty clinics:-

The Pharmacy dispenses medicine for the following clinics:-

Leukemia clinic, thalasemia clinic, neurology clinic, neuro developmental clinic, asthma clinic, nephrology clinic, endocrinology clinic, immunity clinic, genetic clinic, psychology clinic, general clinic and casualty clinic.

2 – Wards

The pharmacy serves ward patients in the peadiatric department. It consists of 10 wards which are ICU, two hematology wards, neurology ward and general wards.

3 – Medical store

Providing medicine to the pharmacy and disposables to patients.

The work of the pharmacy

-            Providing medicine from central medical store (CMS) in Sabhan every other week.

-            Requesting psychotropic medicines from central pharmacy.

-            Recording and checking of in-coming and out-going medicine and checking the expiry dates.

-            Dispensing the weekly medicine for the wards and for inpatients depending on the length of stay.

The work in the peadiatric medical store:

-            Routine check of pharmacy needs of medicine to be ordered from CMS.

-            Receiving the medicine deliveried from CMS and checking the items description, quantity and expiry date.

-            Classification of the injections, tablets and preparations and setting them in the desired place.

Psychotropic medicine

-            There is a special closet and special record for psychotropic medicines. These items are requested from central pharmacy which in turn request them from CMS.

-            The pharmacy gets special numbered and stamped prescription book and hand them to each nurse in charge of each ward.

-            Checking the expiry dates with the pharmacist in-charge of these medicines in central pharmacy.

Dispensing for out patient clinics

-            Dispensing occurs daily for the out patient clinics and for the casualty in the morning only. In the after noon, weekends and holidays dispensing for casualty clinic is from casualty pharmacy in Al-Sbah Hospital.

The dispensing occurs for patient carrying a prescription from hospital clinics consisting of:

-            Patients name, file number or prescription number and the clinic stamp.

-            Patients civil ID number

-            Reception stamp

-            Doctors stamp and signature

Pharmacist In-Charge Responsibilities:

-            Requesting pharmacy needs of general, special, controlled, freshly prepared medicine and drugs of decision 365/97.

-            Checking special medicine request from special drug office in CMS and making a list of new medicine and medicine in shortage and distributing then to the physicians.

-            Supervising the process of receiving medicine from CMS and checking quantity and expiry date.

-            Arranging the work and the leaves (vacation) of the employees in the pharmacy.

-            Answering physicians pharmacological & medicinal questions

-            Assenting shortage of medicine with the head of pharmacy department & CMS.   

-            Requesting psychotropic medicine from central pharmacy.

-            Supervising the training of pharmacy & pharmacy technician students.

-            Making monthly statistics of dispensed medicines and sending then to the central pharmacy.

Ward Pharmacy

-            Physicians start the round in the morning, then medicine will be written for each patient on the file, and the treatment sheet and on a small white prescription.

-            After physicians finishes the round ward pharmacist check  the written medicine and the dose, then he writes the quantity of the medicine to be dispensed.

-            A medicine trolley will be sent with the prescriptions to the pharmacy.

-            Ward nurse comes to the pharmacy to check the dispensed medicine.

-            Ward nurse in-charge writes weekly ward needs of medicine on a special pharmacy book.

-            Ward pharmacist checks ward needs and writes the quantity to be dispensed and a pharmacy technician dispense it.

Making routine inventory on all wards to check the quantity, storing and expiry date of the medicine in all wards.