A pharmacist in the emergency department: transforming care one day at a time
Since moving over to a role in Wexham Hospital's emergency department, Natasha Gandhi has learned that having a dedicated pharmacist in the team can have a huge impact on patient care, service development and staff education.
The automated medicines cabinets used in the emergency department (operated here by Natasha) allow fingerprint, rather than key, access
Working as an acute medicine pharmacist over the past 13 years has brought both triumph and challenge in equal measure. However, an ongoing source of frustration throughout my career has been prescribing errors that occur owing to the lack of information available when a patient is admitted to hospital.
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