Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy

Target Audience

Pharmacists.

Objectives

To train pharmacists to recognize and apply the medications marketed and used in hospitals, improving medication practices through clinical and pharmacological reasoning. To enable pharmacists to practice clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care, as well as pharmaceutical prescribing, based on the guidelines established by the Federal Pharmacy Council, in accordance with Resolutions 585 and 586/2013. To promote the pursuit of new evidence-based knowledge.

- Update pharmacists' knowledge regarding old and new medications that are being marketed or used in hospitals;

- Update and enhance knowledge regarding drug interactions and the mechanisms of action of these medications.

- Develop an integrated and interdisciplinary view of pharmacology in specialists.

- Enable pharmacists to practice clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care as necessary elements of health assistance.

- Guide pharmacists through an in-depth training on the support and social role they can play, based on reliable and up-to-date information about medications.

- Develop activities that allow the integration of knowledge with practice and research, promoting the acquisition of investigation methods (pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, etc.).

- Encourage pharmacists' performance in health education actions through direct communication between pharmacists and patients and other health professionals.

- Emphasize pharmacists' responsibilities regarding the healthcare needs of patients and the community.

- Stimulate multiprofessional action aimed at comprehensive patient care.

- Prepare and write prescriptions for over-the-counter medications based on scientific evidence and rational use of medications, following the guidelines established by the Federal Pharmacy Council, in accordance with Resolution 586/2013.