Elaboración de una guía para el desarrollo del Área de Farmacotecnia en el servicio de farmacia del Hospital Provincial General Docente Riobamba.

Abstract

The objective of this research is the elaboration of a guide for the development of the area of Pharmacotechnics within the pharmacy service in the General Provincial Hospital of Riobamba. The pharmacist services at the hospital are aimed at improving the primary health attention, implementing supportive processes such as the preparation of sterile and non-sterile medication into the pharmacy service and under the supervision. This guide is the product of the evaluation made about the conditions of preparation, using direct observation, interviewing the responsible personnel and collecting data by means of comparative checklists with the corresponding regulations. Inadequate spaces were found and the lack of necessary equipment in order to guarantee sterility and quality of sterile products and functional spaces but not in accordance with regulation for non - sterile products. Beside, risk of contamination was founded, and due to inadequate manipulations and without established protocols, as a consequence of the numerous responsibilities of the nursing staff, which it is considered beneficial and safe the creation of an Intravenous Mixing Unit which is under the responsibility of the pharmacist. With these results and bases on current regulations, the guide was made up for chapters focused in the requirements required for each type of formulation and adapted to the hospital needs. Concluding that the implementation of this project contributed to fomented the active participation of the pharmacist in the primary attention of health, providing a better quality of life of a patient, through the preparation of customized pharmaceutical products. It is recommended to the management staff of the General Provincial Hospital the implementation of conditioned areas for the safe preparation of sterile and non- sterile formulations.