{"id":8804,"date":"2021-10-27T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:29:28","slug":"level-1-pharmacy-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/level-1-pharmacy-team","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on: Level 1 Pharmacy team!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_3381\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3381\" class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-3381 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/pharmacy-day-b-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Pharmacy Day\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/267;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RBWH Level 1 Pharmacy Team celebrating World Pharmacy Day with some bright florals!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>On World Pharmacy Day in September we celebrated the vital roles our pharmacy team provides to the entire hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RBWH Assistant Director of Pharmacy \u2013 Systems and Support Brett Sweeney said the Level 1 dispensary is the hub of the RBWH Pharmacy department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin this area we have numerous teams that help manage the procurement and distribution of medications across the hospital,\u201d Brett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn any given day we can have up to ten dispensary staff as well as three dedicated to purchasing needs, up to five in stores managing medications in the wards, three handling the hospital\u2019s imprest needs and another five managing the day-to-day admin duties.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists aren\u2019t the only staff members keeping this busy department running though, with support coming from their dedicated administration team as well as from their very own robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have pharmacy robots that help us by storing stock and managing the dispensing of controlled medications,\u201d Brett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have the admin team next door who manage a range of vital roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether with our pharmacist teams, they help fulfil the core functions needed for the department to be able to operate as well as it does. Without them, we wouldn\u2019t be able to get medications to patients safely or effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking after the immediate medication needs of our inpatients and outpatients is not the only way the Level 1 Pharmacy teams contribute to the daily-running of the hospital. They are also working hard to improve patient outcomes through a variety of research projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team here are involved with numerous in-house clinical trials to support needs for medication solutions now and in the future,\u201d Brett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment we\u2019re currently managing 80 clinical trials that directly involve our RBWH patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s essential to recognise the importance of all of these pharmacy roles in the broader health system and their contributions towards positive patient outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World Pharmacy Day in September we celebrated the vital roles our pharmacy team provides to the entire hospital. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spotlight on: Level 1 Pharmacy team! 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