Bismillah..

( debut perdana launching my first Article in my blog..hhi, maaf agak 4l4y..)

Sebelum masuk ke inti,  I would like to give some behind story kenapa judul ini yang dipilih untuk jadi my first article here. So, today is not my ordinary day because fakultas kami (fakultas farmasi Unpad-red) kedatangan tamu yang berkunjung dari Universitas Sains Malaysia. Acara nya adalah Knowledge sharing program yang intinya adalah Universitas Sains Malysia (USM) yang selama ini have a basic about clinical pharmacist  share ilmu dengan fakultas kami yang punya basic tentang pharmaceutical Industry. for some of you who don’t know about pharmacy term akan dijelaskan di artikel yaa.., So Now lets take a lokk at the article

Clinical Pharmacy

It has not been a long time ago I finally found my dream, since I attend international seminar that in held by our faculty. The Seminar topic is about infectious disease, how to manage and how to prevent antibiotic resistance.  Professor Syed Azhar from Universitas Sains Malaysia (USM) is one of the speaker in that seminar. That day is the most mesmerizing moment in my life. For the first time in my life, I finally realized about the role of clinical pharmacist . He told us as a pharmacist we could do a better therapy for patient. We could give a recommendation which drugs is most effective in certain circumstance to improve a better life for the patient.  in example  patient got diarrhea, some physicians just give some broad spectrum antibiotic such as levofloxacin. Broad spectrum antibiotic maybe could kill the bacteria, but it could cause resistance. The analogy of this broad spectrum antibiotic is like if you want to kill a bird perch on the branch of the tree, a nuclear bomb blow up a whole three rather than just shooting an arrow to bird. He mentioned that there are some certain rules to use antibiotic. This is the importance of clinical Pharmacis role in healthcare system. Clinical pharmacist should be part of health professional and to be involved to discuss about therapy for patient.

In Indonesia , Pharmacist is barely known as  health  professional . Because there are assumptions that pharmacist is product oriented, not a patient oriented. Even, pharmacist in healthcare system just observes the regulation of drug in hospital. So, my dream starts clinging in my brain. That time I declared to become clinical pharmacist. I want to become someone who know most about drug.  That time I imagine that if some thing happened in my patient, I could give some recommend to Doctor what the best treatment for patient.

After I doing research about what clinical pharmacist, here are some clinical pharmacy do according to ACCP (American collage of clinical pharmacist) website :

Clinical pharmacists:

• Assess the status of the patient’s health problems and determine whether the prescribed medications are optimally meeting the patient’s needs and goals of care.
• Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of the patient’s medications.
• Recognize untreated health problems that could be improved or resolved with appropriate medication therapy.
• Follow the patient’s progress to determine the effects of the patient’s medications on his or her health.
• Consult with the patient’s physicians and other health care providers in selecting the medication therapy that best meets the patient’s needs and contributes effectively to the overall therapy goals.
• Advise the patient on how to best take his or her medications.
• Support the health care team’s efforts to educate the patient on other important steps to improve or maintain health, such as exercise, diet, and preventive steps like immunization.
• Refer the patient to his or her physician or other health professionals to address specific health, wellness, or social services concerns as they arise.

Last but not least I hope that this article could give me strength to achieve my dreams to become a clinical pharmacist. in Order to reach this dreams, I Know that I have to face the obstacles. For example I have to find a way how to reach this dreams. And I have to take stairs one by one because there re not elevator to success.  But remember the one of my favorite quote these days is “ Yang penting Allah Ridha”. Man can make a plan, but Allah decide it. 

Jatinangor, October 20th 2014

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