Pharma Middle East

Biography

Biography: Sherif Kamal

Abstract

Peter Drucker, the man who invented management said: “We cannot manage what we cannot measure” and “What is measured improves’. In this context, the WHO 7 star pharmacists listed the role of pharmacists including being a leader and a manger. Being a manger of the patient care process and the medication management process made the pharmacist an integral part of the clinical decision making and made the pharmacist responsible for the patient safety. We will discuss the medication management process, the pillars of quality, the 7 quality values, the role of the pharmacist in translating theory into practice, creating the culture of patient safety and we will be introduced the human factor and proactive approaches to prevent errors. Moving from the 6 R rules, through the Swiss Cheese Model, Poka Yoka, touching base with the FMEA process, the role of pharmacist in risk management and looking into some tools that will help the pharmacists improve the patient safety in their setting. I will urge all of us to proactively empower pharmacist to be an integral part of the clinical decision making and encourage patient safety research and clinical guidelines implementation Initiatives as a tool to improve patient safety.