Provision of pharmaceutical care in the intensive care unit.
The highly specialized knowledge and skills necessary to care for critically ill patients requires a team approach involving physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers. The role of the pharmacist in the intensive care unit is evolving rapidly to a new responsibility for ensuring definite drug therapy outcomes that improve the patient's quality of life. The provision of pharmaceutical care by pharmacists involves identifying, resolving, and preventing drug-related problems. Many medication errors, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and inappropriate therapies can be avoided, which will certainly benefit the patient as well as the nursing professions.
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D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007587:Job Description; D008508:Medication Errors; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010595:Pharmacists; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*