The department of pharmacy provides proper pharmacy care by outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and medication consulting services. We have a prescription team, clinical pharmacy team, parenteral drug team, education team, and storage team in the department with 52 employees, including 44 pharmacists and eight assistants. We participate in the Pharmacy Committee, the Controlled Drugs Committee, the Adverse Drug Reaction Committee, and the other patient-safety-related committees as executive secretaries to improve service quality. The principles of the department of pharmacy are profession, cooperation, and dedication.
- Introduction
- Profession: all pharmacists join the 2-year PGY program after graduation and the reading circles for new studies and textbooks to enhance their clinical skills and knowledge. Besides the PGY program, we encourage the pharmacists to gain Certification of Pharmacy Specialties, particularly in Infectious Diseases Pharmacy, Critical Care Pharmacy, Cardiology Pharmacy, and Geriatric Pharmacy. Also, we encourage the pharmacists to improve their research quality, publish and apply the findings.
- Cooperation: our service is patient-centric. We review the prescription, dispensing, assess the efficacy and adverse effects, and provide medication instructions. We also renew the guidelines from the latest research to ensure the best pharmacotherapy for patients.
- Dedication: In the community, we join the school, community-university, and other community meetings to promote the concept of correct medication use and away from drug abuse and help tobacco cessation. In the hospital, we operate pharmaceutical care clinics to enhance the quality of high-risk medication, simplify poly-pharmacy in the elderly, and assess medication efficacy for long-term disease control.
En Chu Kong Hospital is a religious hospital. As a pharmacist, we aim to provide the best pharmacy care, treat patients kindly, selflessly, and modestly as to our families to meet the En Chu Kong Hospital's core spirits.