Pharmacy

I. Basic information about the department

Departmental structure:

The Department of Pharmacy of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital is composed of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Office, the Outpatient and Emergency Pharmacy, the Inpatient Pharmacy, the Intravenous Drug Admixture Center, the Drug Storehouse and the Clinical Pharmacy Room. It applies a three-level management system, with clear division of work and close cooperation among the departments; on the basis of ensuring hospital drug supply, it explores high-quality hospital pharmaceutical affairs management and builds an all-round clinical pharmacy service system.

Staffing structure:

The Department of Pharmacy currently has 46 employees, including 2 with senior titles and 2 with associate senior titles; the proportion of intermediate and senior titles is 45%.

II. Distribution of the department's services

(1) Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Office: undertakes quality control supervision of all the department's work and plays a backbone and leading role in clinical drug treatment. Adhering to a patient-centred approach and standardized management as the foundation, it effectively organizes, implements and manages the entire process of clinical medication. It also attends to the routine management work during the recess of the Pharmacy Affairs Committee, including monitoring and evaluating the use of drugs in the hospital and analysing and assessing medication risks.

(2) Outpatient and Emergency Pharmacy: undertakes drug supply and pharmaceutical care for the hospital's clinical departments and for outpatient and emergency patients. In 2018 it introduced intelligent drug shelves and automatic dispensing machines, realizing intelligent dispensing and information-based management of drugs. In 2019 it set up a dedicated window for traditional Chinese medicine formula granules and at the same time took over the decoction-on-request service for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, carrying out supervision and quality control. In 2020 it began providing online pharmaceutical services of the internet hospital. It has successively won the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Association's 2022 and 2024 Excellent Service Demonstration Window awards and has many times received honours such as the hospital's "Quarterly Mobile Red Flag Post" and the "Most Beautiful Service Window" of the hospital's service season; it is a benchmark-level service window of the hospital.

(3) Inpatient Pharmacy: undertakes the daily maintenance, quality assurance and drug supply of drugs in the hospital's wards, including ward drug dispensing, dispensing of take-home drugs at discharge, review of medication orders, intervention in irrational drug use and medication consultation. It is also responsible for the management of base stock drugs in the wards, the requisition and dispensing of drugs by the operating theatre pharmacy, and the storage, dispensing and supervision of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and vaccines. It has won honours such as the 2020 "Shanghai Excellent Service Demonstration Window".

(4) Intravenous Drug Admixture Center: through the review of intravenous medication orders and the admixture of intravenous infusions, the center provides clinical departments with high-quality finished infusion products that can be infused intravenously directly, improving the safety and efficiency of intravenous medication. It currently has intelligent intravenous infusion admixture robots, a new intelligent labelling system and automatic sorting machines. Through intelligent management software that automatically connects the intelligent equipment with the HIS system, it has achieved information-based, automated and intelligent management of the entire process of drug requisition, prescription review, admixture, sorting, transport and use.

(5) Drug Storehouse: mainly responsible for supplying and managing all kinds of drugs, hazardous chemicals, vaccines and disinfectants required by the hospital's clinical departments. It is also responsible for the management of narcotic drug prescriptions, the information-based configuration of drugs, the management of drugs stored on behalf of the internet service, and the requisition and distribution of public drugs and materials.

(6) Clinical Pharmacy Room: clinical pharmacists, through half a day per day stationed in the wards, provide clinical pharmacy services related to rational drug use, actively participate in clinical ward rounds, case discussions and pharmacy consultations, form treatment teams together with doctors and nurses, formulate individualized treatment plans for patients and provide professional pharmaceutical advice to clinicians. They assist clinicians in the management and control of pharmaceutical indicators such as the intensity of antibacterial drug use and the use of essential drugs, and solve problems related to clinical medication. They are also responsible for prescription review, online reporting of antimicrobial drug monitoring and reporting of adverse reactions. At the same time they carry out distinctive pharmaceutical service projects such as "therapeutic drug monitoring" and the "pharmacy clinic for pregnancy and lactation", regularly publish pharmacy science popularization materials, and provide whole-process pharmaceutical services for individualized and precise medication of patients; the related work has won honours such as the "Innovative Service Brand" of the hospital's service season.

III. Teaching and research in the department

Scientific research and academic work:

In recent years, research has been carried out in areas such as in-hospital preparations, therapeutic drug monitoring and intelligent pharmacy; more than 20 national and provincial/ministerial-level projects have been obtained cumulatively; more than 30 SCI papers have been published, of which 15 have an IF > 5, with the highest single IF being 19.0; and 5 academic monographs have been compiled and published.

Faculty and teaching:

There is currently 1 doctoral supervisor, 1 master's supervisor, 5 doctoral students and 6 master's students in training. In recent years more than 100 interns have been taught.

Continuing education:

In recent years national-level continuing education projects and Shanghai municipal continuing education projects have been held many times, with trainees including obstetrics and gynaecology physicians and pharmacists from all over the country, which has promoted rational medication in maternal and child pharmacy and strengthened communication and exchange among experts and peers from all over the country.

Professional study:

The department regularly organizes professional study sessions, inviting well-known medical and pharmaceutical experts from inside and outside the hospital to exchange and study on topics such as pharmaceutical affairs management, pharmaceutical services and pharmaceutical research, and encourages department staff to give lectures, continuously improving the professional ability and teaching level of department members.

All pharmacists of the Department of Pharmacy of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital are willing to unite as one in the great tide of the new healthcare reform, to innovate and develop, to accelerate discipline development, and to safeguard clinical medication!