@article {239, title = {Virtual Pediatrics Medication Counseling Clinic: A New Initiative Project in Saudi Arabia}, journal = {PTB Reports}, volume = {9}, year = {2023}, month = {November 2023}, pages = {28-33}, type = {Review Article}, chapter = {28}, abstract = {

Objectives: The virtual pediatric medication counseling clinics were created to align with Saudi Vision2030. This topic aims to declare the virtual pediatric medicine education clinic services as a new initiative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: This new project is driven by local and international virtual pharmaceutical care services. It was formulated from guidelines of pharmacy projects, the international business model, , and management institution guidelines for the new project. Project management professionals draft this initiative, consisting of several stages, from the initial until planning phases, execution, monitoring, and control stages. Results: Virtual pediatric medicine counseling clinics consist of medication history reviews, medication reconciliation, patient education, medication safety, research and development, and patient satisfaction. Furthermore, the risk management model description ensures the project{\textquoteright}s continuation. Besides, the monitoring and control of the services were declared. Finally, the analysis investigates the transition to the operation project through the closing project stage. Conclusion: Virtual pediatric medication counseling clinics are a new initiative in the general strategic plan with Saudi Vision 2030. Virtual pediatric medicine education clinic requires a clear vision, policy and procedures, and long-term patient service satisfaction. Virtual pediatric medication counseling clinics may be essential in developing an appropriate pharmacy professional plan focusing on patient care to achieve targeted therapeutic management, prevent drug-related problems, and avoid unnecessary costs.

}, keywords = {Counseling, Education, Medication, Saudi Arabia., Virtual Pediatric}, doi = {10.5530/PTB.2023.9.5}, author = {Nouf Musleh Alassadi and Asma Mohammed Alzahrani and Haifa Shabeeb Almutairi and Tahani Mohammed Alotaibi and Mona Yousef Lubbad and Nouf Abdurazaq Alhaza and Raghad Maluoh Alanazi and Yousef Ahmed Alomi} } @article {229, title = {Pharmacy Infection Control: Education and Training}, journal = {PTB Reports}, volume = {8}, year = {2022}, month = {December 2022}, pages = {105-112}, type = {Review Article}, chapter = {105}, abstract = {

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to explore the Education and Training policy of pharmacy infection control as a new initiative project in Saudi Arabia. Methods: It is a narrative review of pharmacy infection control. The literature search was done using databases, including PubMed, Medline, and Google Scholar, about specific pharmacy practice infection control policies and procedures. The search time was from the 1960s to October 2021. The topic was in English and included narrative review, meta-analysis, systemic review, and guidelines across all hospitals and community pharmacy services. Moreover, the national and international guidelines of general research in hospital practice. The pharmacy research committee formulated and consisted of various experts, including clinical pharmacists, drug information pharmacists, and infection control specialists. Some authors drafted the policy and procedures, and others reviewed and corrected them. The additional author, an infection control specialist, revised the final document. The study emphasizes the Pharmacy infection control policy of Research Education and Training. Results: The Pharmacy Infection control Education and Training policy consisted of various items, including program objectives, admission requirements, teaching and education methodology, and Pharmacy infection control Education and Training steps in pharmacy practice. The education and training contained five models. Namely hand hygiene and personal protective equipment, environment and workplace, employment immunization and occupational safety, pharmacy wastage and spill cleaning, pharmacoepidemiology with a pharmacy infection control surveillance, and pharmacy infection control quality management. Each model described Module description, Learning Objectives, Module Outlines, and Competency items. Conclusion: The pharmacy infection control policy of Research Education and Training is a new initiative for pharmacy career professionals. The Pharmacy infection control Education and Training pharmacy policy aims to improve infection control skills and encourage pharmacists{\textquoteright} compliance with infection control regulations in different places in the public and healthcare organizations. Therefore, education and training in pharmacy infection control policy are necessary for the pharmaceutical care services in Saudi Arabia.

}, keywords = {Education, Infection control, Pharmacy, Policy, Saudi Arabia, Training}, doi = {10.5530/PTB.2022.8.14}, author = {Yousef Ahmed Alomi and Anhar Alyousef and Mohammed Mominul Islam and Maha Hussein Almadany and Bader Abdullah Alqannass and Eman Elsayed Younis and Rehab Ahmed Al Noaimi and Hamidah Qasim Ali Abushomi} } @article {175, title = {National Survey of Clinical Pharmacy Practice in Saudi Arabia-2017-2018: Education and Training}, journal = {PTB Reports}, volume = {6}, year = {2020}, month = {March 2020}, pages = {91-95}, type = {Research Article}, chapter = {91}, abstract = {

Objectives: To explore the national survey of clinical pharmacy practice in Saudi Arabia during 2017- 2018 with emphasis on the education and training available to the pharmacy staff. Methods: This is a 4-month cross-sectional national survey on clinical pharmacy practice in Saudi Arabia. The study consisted of two parts: The first part collects demographic information and the second part comprises of 51 questions divided into four domains. The domains are derived from the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists (ASHP), Saudi Pharmaceutical Society (SPS) survey, the international standard of Joint Commission of Hospital Accreditation and from the local standards of Saudi Center of Healthcare Accreditation. The four domains were the clinical pharmacy administration and management, performances and activities, education and training and workload documentation. We used a 5-point Likert response scale system with close- and open-ended questions to obtain responses. The questionnaire was distributed in an electronic format to the 31 directors of pharmacies at hospitals. In this study, we analyzed the national survey of clinical pharmacy practice at hospitals in Saudi Arabia with an emphasis on education and training. All data were obtained through the Survey Monkey system. Results: The survey questionnaire distributed to 31 hospitals. The most qualified educational course available for the clinical pharmacy staff was on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (74.19\%) and on advance cardiac life support (ACLS) (36.67\%) and the least available educational course was advance trauma life support (ATLS) (10.71\%). Almost all educational courses were provided to the general clinical pharmacist (89) and clinical pharmacist supervisor (22). The majority of the educational courses provided to the healthcare professionals was on short educational course of 1{\textendash}5 days (85 (47.22\%)) followed by basic medication safety (60 (45.45\%)) and clinical pharmacy orientation 50 (41.67\%), whereas clinical pharmacists provided educational and training courses to healthcare providers mainly for general nurses (108) followed by resident physicians (66) and specialist physicians (53) periodically. Conclusion: The clinical pharmacy staff missed some primary educational and training courses. Less than half of the hospitals provided educational courses to healthcare care professionals. We highly recommend bilingual educational and training facilities for clinical pharmacy staff and healthcare professionals in the KSA.

}, keywords = {Clinical, Education, Pharmacy, Practice, Saudi Arabia, Training}, doi = {10.5530/PTB.2020.6.17}, author = {Yousef Ahmed Alomi and Fatimah Al-Doughan and Sultan Mohammed Al-Jarallah and Yasir Ahmed Ibrahim and Adel Mehmas Alragas and Norah Omar Bin Haidarah} } @article {167, title = {Privileges of Pharmacists in Saudi Arabia: Drug Monitoring and Providing Education to Healthcare Professionals}, journal = {PTB Reports}, volume = {6}, year = {2020}, month = {March 2020}, pages = {55-59}, type = {Research Article}, chapter = {55}, abstract = {

Objectives: To explore the privileges of pharmacists with regard to the drug monitoring and providing education to healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This is a 4-month cross-sectional survey regarding drug monitoring and providing education to healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia. The study consisted of two parts: the first part collected demographic information and the second part comprised a questionnaire with 28 questions divided into 4 domains. The questions were derived from previous literature and from the regulatory standards of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The four domains were as follows: management and resources, pharmacist prescribing and therapeutic interchange, clinical and administration privilege and drug monitoring and healthcare education. The responses were obtained using a 5-point Likert response scale system with close- and open-ended questions. The survey questionnaire was distributed in an electronic format to the director of pharmacy. In this study, we analyzed pharmacist{\textquoteright}s privilege with regard to drug monitoring and the education of healthcare providers. All data were obtained through the Survey Monkey system. Results: The survey was distributed to 36 hospitals. Most of the pharmacist{\textquoteright}s privilege in drug monitoring and documentation of the clinical impact and cost avoidance was related to patient counseling (90.63\%), adverse drug reactions (88.24\%) and drug quality reporting (87.50\%). Most of the candidates were students from Diploma in Pharmacy (50.00\%) followed by (47.22\%) pharmacy student and (44.44\%) pharmacy technician. Majority of the pharmacists having privileges in providing education and training was available for pharmacists and clinical pharmacists. Finally, pharmacy technicians delivered most of the education and training to general physicians, nurses and specialist physicians. Conclusion: In Saudi Arabia, privileges of a pharmacist with regard to drug monitoring do not exist in various departments of hospitals such as neonates, pediatrics and geriatrics patients. Regular and clinical pharmacists had most of the privileges in providing education and training to the healthcare professionals and few of the healthcare professionals received education and training by the pharmacists. Therefore, there is an increasing demand of a comprehensive awareness program about privileges of a pharmacist in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

}, keywords = {Drug Monitoring, Education, Healthcare, Pharmacists, Privileges, Professionals, Saudi Arabia}, doi = {10.5530/PTB.2020.6.10}, author = {Faisal Al-Otaibi and Mohamed Soliman Imam and Randa Mansour Abdel-Sattar Ahmed and Amsha Alotaibi and Asma Alotaibi and Amal Alotaibi and Wesam Alsuwaid and Yousef Ahmed Alomi} } @article {121, title = {National Survey of Medication Safety Practice: Patient Education, Quality Process and Risk Management at Primary Healthcare Centers/Community Pharmacies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia}, journal = {Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biomedical Reports}, volume = {5}, year = {2019}, month = {January 2019}, pages = {36-43}, type = {Research Article}, chapter = {36}, abstract = {

Objective: To explore the national medication safety practice such as patient education, quality process and risk management at primary healthcare centers (PHCs) and community pharmacies (CPs) in Riyadh city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: This is a four-month cross-sectional medication safety practice survey conducted at PHC pharmacies and CPs in Riyadh city. The survey consisted of the modified version of the Medication Safety Self-Assessment{\textregistered} for Community/Ambulatory Pharmacy from the Institute of Safe Medication Practice (ISMP). The survey consisted of a demographic section and 10 domains with 198 questions. The domains included questions on patient information; drug information; communication of drug orders and other drug information; drug labeling and packaging and nomenclature; use of devices; environmental factors; staff competency and education; patient education; quality processes; and risk management domain. In this study, we emphasized on patient education, quality process and risk management; it is a finding from medication safety self-assessment for community/ ambulatory pharmacy in Riyadh city. Results: The survey was distributed to 13 PHC pharmacies and 23 CPs. The average score of all ISMP-self assessment of medication safety items at PHCs was 2.75{\textpm}0.36 (54.94\%) (95\% confidence interval (95\% CI)=2.55{\textendash}2.95; P\<0.05; range=2.04{\textendash}3.38). The average score of all ISMP-self assessment of medication safety items at CPs was 3.14{\textpm}0.42 (62.86\%) (95\% CI=2.90{\textendash}4.38; P\<0.05; range=2.40{\textendash}3.88). The average score of patient education at PHCs was 3.04{\textpm}0.365 (60.8\%) (95\% CI=2.89{\textendash}3.19; P\<0.05; range=2.00{\textendash}3.73) and at CPs, it was 3.73{\textpm}0.29 (74.6\%) (95\% CI=3.61{\textendash}3.85; P\<0.05; range=3.11{\textendash}4.22). The average score of quality processes and risk management at PHCs was 2.76{\textpm}0.35 (55.2 \%) (95\% CI=2.64{\textendash}2.88; P\<0.05; range=2.09{\textendash}3.50) and at CPs, it was 3.20 {\textpm}0.38 (64\%) (95\% CI=3.07{\textendash}3.33; P\<0.05; range=2.47{\textendash}3.89). Conclusion: The implementation of patient education and quality processes and risk management at PHCs and CPs were inadequate. Targeting to improve all meditations safety assessment tools at PHCs and CPs is highly recommended in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

}, keywords = {Community Pharmacies, Education, Medication, Primary Healthcare Centers, Quality, Risk Management, Riyadh, Safety, Saudi Arabia}, doi = {10.5530/PTB.2019.5.7}, author = {Yousef Ahmed Alomi and Zainab Abdulmunem Almuallem and Manar Mohammed Alslim and Khulud Abdulrahman Alamoudi and Adel Mehmas H. Alragas and Rana Mohammed Alslim} }