Pharmacy

Department Development

The Department of Pharmacy of our hospital has always adhered to the tenet of “patient-centeredness, with rational medication use as the core,” and is rooted in pharmacy services for women and children. While carrying out traditional pharmaceutical work such as pharmaceutical affairs management and ensuring the supply of medicines, the department also provides specialized clinical pharmacy services for clinical practice. The Department of Clinical Pharmacy makes full use of our hospital’s abundant clinical, teaching, and research resources. Starting with the development of clinical pharmacy service systems in obstetrics and gynecology, neonatology, breast medicine, and other areas; the cultivation of a talent echelon; science popularization and publicity on obstetric and gynecological pharmacy; and clinical pharmacy research capabilities, the department has gradually achieved the transformation of pharmaceutical services, cultivated a clinical pharmacy talent echelon, ensured the medication safety of patients and the general public through professional pharmaceutical knowledge, and comprehensively advanced discipline development.

In 2011, our hospital established an operating room pharmacy and established and gradually improved the classified management of medicines in the operating room. Medicines in the operating room were managed by category, level, and dynamically, ensuring the informatization, scientific basis, institutionalization, and standardization of perioperative medication management. In 2015, the operating room pharmacy introduced anesthesia machines, further improving the scientific, orderly, and dynamic management of perioperative medications in our hospital, effectively reducing operating costs and improving management efficiency. In 2015, the Department of Pharmacy completed the introduction of fully automated dispensing equipment, involving multiple dispensing and distribution departments, including the inpatient pharmacy, outpatient pharmacy, and operating room pharmacy. It became one of the most comprehensively automated pharmacy departments in the city, creating a favorable environment for providing patients with better medication services. The outpatient pharmacy was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Service Demonstration Window by the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association; in 2015, it received the title of Civilized Team from the China Welfare Institute; in 2017, it was awarded Outstanding Unit of the Shanghai Clinical Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Level-3 Specialty Group, and an Advanced Collective for Adverse Reaction Monitoring of Drugs and Medical Devices in Xuhui District, Shanghai; in 2018, it was awarded an Advanced Collective for Adverse Reaction Monitoring of Drugs and Medical Devices in Xuhui District, Shanghai, and Gelu Pharmacy was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Service Demonstration Window by the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association.

Personnel Structure

The Department of Pharmacy comprises the outpatient and emergency pharmacy, Gelu Pharmacy, inpatient pharmacy, operating room pharmacy, drug warehouse, and clinical pharmacy office, among other departments, and undertakes hospital-wide drug supply management, clinical pharmacy services, and other work. There are currently 19 pharmaceutical technical professionals, including 5 members of the clinical pharmacy team, 1 with a senior professional title, and 10 with intermediate professional titles; 1 holds a doctoral degree, 2 hold master’s degrees, and 1 is currently pursuing a master’s degree.

Services and Operations

The Department of Pharmacy has always adhered to our hospital’s tenet of “serving women and children wholeheartedly,” remained committed to “patient-centeredness, with rational medication use as the core,” and focused on obstetric and gynecological pharmacy to safeguard medication use for women and children. With the goal of improving rational clinical medication use, the department is developing a team of clinical pharmacists with a well-balanced knowledge structure and strong practical capabilities, and exploring clinical pharmacy service models with obstetric and gynecological characteristics. It optimizes and standardizes clinical pharmacy service standards, improves the informatization of clinical pharmacy services, strengthens medication intervention systems such as prescription review, ADR monitoring, and antimicrobial medication rectification, and safeguards the safety of clinical medication use. Traditional pharmaceutical work, such as pharmaceutical affairs management: nearly 700,000 outpatient and emergency prescriptions are reviewed annually, and nearly 950,000 inpatient medication orders are verified and dispensed annually. Clinical pharmacy services: clinical pharmacists are assigned to multiple clinical departments, including gynecology, obstetrics, breast medicine, neonatology, and assisted reproduction, and specialize in anti-infective therapy, antitumor therapy, gestational diabetes mellitus, gestational hypertension, and other areas. They undertake hospital-wide antimicrobial monitoring, rational medication monitoring and review, adverse reaction monitoring, drug information management, pharmaceutical rounds, medication consultation, consultations, and discussions of difficult cases.

Featured Technologies

1. Establishment of a medication consultation clinic: In 2013, the first pharmacist-physician joint medication consultation clinic in the city specifically for women during pregnancy was launched. To date, it has provided consultations to nearly 5,000 person-visits. The clinic has also expanded from Monday afternoons to Monday and Thursday afternoons, receiving consultation requests from pregnant women referred by multiple other hospitals, promoting medication safety during pregnancy, and advancing the development of key clinical disciplines and specialties in obstetrics and gynecology at our hospital.

2. Emphasis on medication safety education during pregnancy and childbirth: In 2009, the city’s first maternal and infant health education program on medication safety during pregnancy and childbirth was initiated, providing women during pregnancy with medication safety education for the perinatal period and benefiting nearly several thousand person-visits.

3. Opening multiple consultation channels: Several senior clinical pharmacists have joined the official WeChat accounts of the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association and the Guo Fu Ying Mobile Hospital, providing online consultations for patients with obstetric and gynecological conditions and diseases of infants and young children. In addition, the department provides patients and healthcare professionals with an official medication consultation telephone line and accepts telephone consultations from inside and outside the hospital. From within the hospital to outside the hospital, and from patients to healthcare professionals, it provides multiple consultation channels and promotes rational medication use.

4. Conducting science popularization and publicity through multiple channels: The Guo Fu Ying Mobile Hospital WeChat account regularly shares popular science articles on drug therapy for obstetric and gynecological conditions and diseases of infants and young children. It also publicizes information on rational medication use through multiple channels, including electronic publicity screens in the pharmacy and hospital bulletin boards, thereby establishing a new-media communication and exchange platform that is scientific, accessible, and convenient from multiple perspectives. Information on rational medication use in obstetrics and gynecology is integrated and disseminated to the general public, thereby improving public scientific literacy and promoting mutual communication and common progress among peers.

Research and Education

Over the past five years, the Department of Pharmacy has received 1 key project and 4 youth projects from the Hospital Pharmacy Research Fund of the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as 1 hospital-level project; 7 Chinese-language papers indexed in Chinese statistical source journals have been published.

By the end of 2018, 7 people had obtained the Shanghai Clinical Pharmacist Training Certificate, and 1 person had obtained the qualification to serve as an instructor for the standardized on-the-job training of Shanghai clinical pharmacists of traditional Chinese medicine; 1 person received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 4th Hospital Pharmacy Annual Conference of the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2014; 1 person received the honorary title of “Outstanding Young Pharmacist of Shanghai” from the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association in 2015; 1 person received an Encouragement Award at the 3rd Shanghai Youth Medical Science Popularization Ability Competition in August 2016; 1 person received Third Prize for a paper at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Pharmacy Annual Conference in 2017; and 1 person received Second Prize for a paper from the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association in 2018. Two people separately received the “Outstanding Pharmacist Award” at the 5th Hospital Pharmacy Academic Annual Conference of the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2017 and 2018.