Background:
The pharmaceutical profession has experienced renewals over time. In community pharmacies, pharmaceutical services contribute to the public health system in Brazil. The development of these tasks, in collaboration with professionals from the multidisciplinary team, demonstrates the involvement with the well-being, health and improvement of the patient’s life.
Objectives:
This study aimed to identify the professional practice of pharmacists, their understandings and attitudes towards clinical practice in community pharmacies in northern Brazil.
Methods:
This is a cross-sectional descriptive study, based on a questionnaire carried out with pharmacists for seven months in the municipality of Belém, in the state of Pará. Data were expressed using descriptive statistics and the results were shown as a percentage.
Results:
182 pharmacists participated. Females were predominant (80.2%) and the average age of participants was 34.2 years. 77.4% graduated from private institutions and 59.3% already have a specialization. 38.4% hold the position of technical director. 50.5% of respondents say that community pharmacies have a reserved place for service. The most used clinical services were pharmacotherapy review (89.5%), health education (60.9%), dispensing (34%), therapeutic monitoring (25.8%) and pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (4.9%). In the study, it was realized that community pharmacies should not be seen as a commercial place but rather as a health care facility.
Conclusions:
Therefore, these establishments must adapt at a structural and professional level, to meet an increasingly growing demand of a population in need of services offered with quality health care.
Objetivo: Verificar, a partir de uma revisão integrativa, o papel do farmacêutico após a implantação da Resolução 44/2009, a primeira resolução da ANVISA que respaldou tais atividades nas farmácias e drogarias. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa no intuito de observar a importância do farmacêutico a partir da RDC Nº 44, de 17 de agosto de 2009, em farmácias e/ou drogarias do Brasil. A questão norteadora dessa revisão foi “A presença do farmacêutico é necessária para o cumprimento das boas práticas farmacêuticas estabelecidas pela RDC Nº 44, de 17 de agosto de 2009?”. Os estudos foram selecionados nas bases de dados Scientific Electronic, Library Online (SciELO), Google Scholar e Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em Ciência da Saúde (LILACS), a partir de descritores. Resultados: Dos 700 artigos encontrados nos bancos de dados selecionados para o estudo, somente 12 foram escolhidos após os critérios de inclusão, os quais abordam sobre a atenção farmacêutica, os serviços farmacêuticos, uso racional de medicamentos, logística reversa, cumprimento das medidas sanitárias durante as prescrições e boas práticas farmacêuticas. Conclusão: Faz-se necessário a atualização da RDC nº 44, de 17 de agosto de 2009 para incluir o novo perfil do farmacêutico na condução da avaliação clínica e/ou acompanhamento sobre a terapêutica dentro dos estabelecimentos de saúde e o novo conceito de farmácia, a partir de 2014, com o objetivo diminuir as divergências entre a redação da normativa e os novos papeis do profissional e do estabelecimento perante a assistência em saúde.
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