PHT 453: Hospital Pharmacy II: Operational Services

Description:   This course emphasizes the application of pharmaceutics in the hospital. The concept of biopharmaceutics, stability, incompatibility, microbiology and quality control as it applies to intravenous admixture and total parenteral nutrition will be presented. The design and manufacture of formulations for hospital use including their quality assurance and packaging will also be discussed

Objectives:     The course is designed to teach students who have elected “Hospital Pharmacy Practice” and “Clinical Pharmacy” as professional areas how to integrate knowledge concerning dispensing of medications that they have been acquainted to from their course works and implement it in their professional career. In this course, students will become familiar with the hospital formularies systems and how they work.  This course should provide the information necessary for a pharmacist to design dosage forms for hospital use and to have some knowledge about their quality control and assurance