We are a pharmacy department that puts pharmaceutical care into action for all of its registered pharmacists. The department is structured to provide rounding pharmacists an enhanced patient care role without traditional dispensing duties.
Some of the innovative approaches used to accomplish this include the use of non-dispensing rounding (decentralized) pharmacists with centralized medication dispensing. This is facilitated by the use of automated dispensing cabinets that are interfaced with the pharmacy information system.
Available throughout the hospital is the pharmacy clinical information system, which provides the pharmacist expanded patient information, including ready access to all lab values. A drug information system is accessible to health care providers hospital-wide, as is access to numerous electronic full-text journals and books through the Baylor Health Sciences Library.
