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HSE / Cover Story “Hospital pharmacists are responsible for educating the patient about how to take the medication. But we need to give them this safety information before we send them out the door.” — Thomas Thompson, RPh, Hamot Medical Center’s vice president of pharmacy service specialist in internal medicine, and a clinical pharmacist. The program’s attendees were then required to complete a post test. Thompson said the motivation to learn and understand the hospital’s standardized dosing system was enforced by the test. The system has proven itself successful, and it’s still being used today, he added. “Training and education are necessary,” Federico said. “I think every hospital needs to think about how they teach their staff about the dangers as well as Hospital the beneﬁts of anticopharmacists agulation so that it’s not taken lightly, bealong with cause these are drugs doctors and that can clearly result other staff need in harm.” to understand Federico said he a system’s doesn’t want hospital design and the administrators to feel importance of too self-assured on the standardization. basis of the training or education programs they provide, because those alone won’t be enough. Hospital pharmacists along with doctors and other staff need to understand a system’s design and the importance of standardization. “Just asking people to remember to do these things is not enough,” he said. It’s important to educate the patient about the medication he or she is receiving and why it was prescribed, Parcher said. Patients must also understand the importance of notifying their primary care physicians when they are given an anticoagulant, and they must be familiar with the dietary requirements associated with the use medications such as warfarin. “I think it’s important to educate patients before they leave your facility,” he said. “Hospital pharmacists are responsible for educating the patient about how to take the medication. But we need to give them this safety information before we send them out the door.” N OV. 10, 2008 DRUG TOPICS H7

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