What is a Pediatric Pharmacist?

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:26:36 GMT

Pediatric pharmacists are licensed professionals with at least five years of highly specialized pharmacy education. They often have completed doctoral degrees in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) and post-graduate residency programs that make them the nation’s medication-use experts. Their responsibilities often include:

Evaluating new medications to recommend those that are safest and most effective for individual patients;
Advising physicians and other health care personnel about medication selection and administration;
Counseling patients and parents directly to help them use their medication wisely;
Monitoring every stage of medication therapy to improve all aspects of effectiveness;
Providing crucial quality checks to detect and prevent harmful drug interactions or reactions and potential mistakes;
Working under sterile conditions to combine injectible medications with fluids to create compounds that patients receive intravenously;
Supervising the dispensing and distribution of medication; and
Obtaining and maintaining supplies of medications that meet quality standards for purity and effectiveness and managing the proper storage of these products to ensure freshness and potency.

PPAG is a 600+ member, non-profit, professional pharmacy association dedicated to improving the lives of children.

PPAG’s mission is to advocate safe and effective medication use in children through communication, education, and research.
PPAG provides continuing pharmacy education programs designed to help members improve the delivery of medication therapy.

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What is a Pediatric Pharmacist?