Abstract The hospital pharmacy aims, in the context of patient safety, to collaborate in the process of health care and well-being, ensuring that the patient uses the prescribed medication, in the appropriate presentation, time, dose, dosage and routes, avoiding errors associated with medications. As an important measure to reduce the risk of…
Currently, social transformations and transformations in health systems seek a more collaborative and participatory model for people, in which they have greater access to information and make choices regarding their health.
In Patient Safety, healthcare professionals improve their performance by understanding their relationship with the context.
The improvements we must make are undoubtedly changes. Sometimes they are small technical learning changes and other times they are big cultural changes.
There are investments in quality that have a return and others that do not have a return, as with any investment in management. How do we achieve balance?
We have another important reason for the unitarization of medicines, as it is the responsibility of the pharmacist responsible for the hospital pharmacy to differentiate medicines to avoid similarity errors.
Maintaining materials with a serial code allows reliable control to include expenses in each patient's bill and thus adequately justify each expense.
We refer to the attitude of individuals and the groups to which they belong and being the best culture as that fair, horizontal and transparent attitude.
Today more than ever, a hospital is a multidisciplinary place where managers, lawyers, clinical engineers, administrators, logistics managers, and human resources specialists all work together, all collaborating so that the complex “hospital machine” and the professional work of doctors can be carried out in the best conditions.