Roles of the department

The Department of Pharmacy ensures the quality of drugs dispensed through traditional pharmacy services. These services extend from the purchasing and storing of drugs to preparing and dispensing drugs to patients. In addition, the department collects and evaluates information on the efficacy and safety of drugs, and provides this information to hospital personnel to ensure that the appropriate drug therapy is provided to both inpatients and outpatients.
The pharmacists at the department provide services to patients in various ways: in the hospital wards, pharmacists provide instruction on the use of drugs based on pharmaceutical management; they provide written drug information to outpatients; they analyze data obtained through the measurement of the blood concentration of drugs. They also actively promote the proper use of drugs and support appropriate drug therapies.
For outpatient care, the Department of Pharmacy promotes issuing of external prescriptions to appropriately separate dispensing and prescribing functions.
Pharmacists at the department conduct research in the field of clinical pharmacy and provide education and training as staff of the pharmacy department of national medical center. They are committed to training pharmacists from the Japan Pharmacists Education Center and other facilities as well as education and practical training of students of various departments of pharmaceutical sciences at universities.

Composition of employees

(as of December 1, 2023)

Status of services at the department

(Fiscal year 2022)

• Average number of prescriptions per day (oral, injection)
  Inpatient, 941
  Outpatient, 33
• Rate of external prescriptions
  93.3%
• Number of pharmaceutical products handled (as of December 2023)
  1,156

Generic products used at this center

•  Average number of patients receiving drug management and instruction services per month
  1,433
•  Average number of cases of drug management and instruction services per month
  1,586
•  Average number of drug blood concentration measurements per month
  339
•  Average number of drug blood concentration analyzes per month
  482
•  Average number of cases of reference to drug information per month
  52

Details of services at the department

• 1. Outpatient
  Dispensing of outpatient prescriptions
  Instructions on medications
  Provision of drug information
• 2. Inpatient
  Dispensing of inpatient prescriptions
  Preparation of injections
  Drug management and instruction
  Provision of drug information
  Management of medication history
  Checking of brought-in drugs
  Measurement and analysis of blood concentration of drugs
  Aseptic preparation of total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
  Classes for patients and family members
• 3. Drug information
  Collecting, organizing, evaluating, and providing literature
  Collection of information of adverse reactions to drugs used in the hospital
  Issuing a list of drugs used in the hospital
  Issuing drug information news (monthly)
• 4. Formulation
  Preparation of special formulations
• 5. Management of drugs
  Purchase, storage, and management of drugs used in the hospital
• 6. Management of investigational products
  Storage, preparation, and management of investigational products
• 7. Drug committee
  Collection and evaluation of materials related to newly adopted drugs
• 8. Education and training
  Acceptance of trainees for practical training for 6-year course of pharmaceutical science education
  Acceptance of trainees from Japan Pharmacists Education Center
  Acceptance of trainees from local pharmacists associations
  Acceptance of trainees from pharmacy departments of hospitals
  Acceptance of pharmacist residents (from fiscal year 2010)
  Certified as a training facility by the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
  Acceptance of trainees from abroad (through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA)
• 9. Other
  Main staff with qualification (as of July 2023)
  Certified pharmacist instructor (Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences): 2
  Certified pharmacist (Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences): 6
  Drug therapy guidance pharmacist (Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences): 1
  Nutritional support team (NST) special therapist (Japanese Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition): 2
  Board certified infection control pharmacy specialist (Japanese Society of Hospital Pharmacists): 4
  Board certified pharmacist in infection control (Japanese Society of Hospital Pharmacists): 2
  Infectious disease chemotherapy pharmacist (Japanese Society of Chemotherapy): 5
  Certified practical training pharmacist instructor (Japan Pharmacists Education Center): 8
  Certified Emergency Pharmacist (Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine): 1
  Sports pharmacist (Japan Anti-Doping Agency): 2
  Perioperative management team pharmacist (Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists): 1
  Chinese herbal medicine and crude drug certified pharmacist (Japan Pharmacist Training Center): 1
  Instructor who treats heart failure (The Japanese Circulation Society): 2
  Certified hospital pharmacist (Japan Society of Hospital Pharmacists): 1
  Outpatient cancer treatment certified pharmacist (Japanese Society of Clinical Oncology): 1
  Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology accredited CRC (Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology): 1
  NR/Supplement Advisor (Japan Clinical Nutrition Association): 1
  Medical information technician (Japan Medical Informatics Society): 1
  GCP Passport (Japan Society for Clinical Trials): 2

Drug information room		Test lab

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