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Pharmacy Courses To become a pharmacist, you must study pharmacy offering different courses. These courses cover the major things you need to know. It range from drug production, health and marketing. Pharmacy is a profession that deals on drugs and medicines. It entails drug discovery, development, design, and formulation including dispensing to both humans and animals for improving health. To be a certified pharmacist, it is mandatory to pass through the four walls of an approved pharmacy institution. The reason why most people prefer pharmacy to other medical courses is that you rarely come across any form of blood. Secondly, the pharmacist is the first point of call when there is a need for the presence of a qualified medical personnel. Read Also:  Pharmacy Induction/Oath Taking Ceremony In Nigeria Course Description For Pharmacy To be a certified pharmacist, the basic requirement is to graduate from a certified pharmacy institution. The curriculum must meet with a...

The hospitalisation process is very similar around the world. However, hospital in Nigeria adopt a slight a variation to the process. This is because the health need of the people is dynamic and unique to us. The hospital is obviously a place where nobody ever prays to visit as a patient or relative to a patient. However, it seems in a person’s lifetime, it is inevitable to avoid it.  The two kinds of persons found in it are the patients and medical personnel. The hospital is an organisation or an establishment where qualified medical personnel attend to the health of persons with major and minor illnesses. The ultimate goals of both staffs and patients is to achieve total health for the patients in an organised manner. There are units and sub-units in standard hospital settings with each playing out a role. A good understanding by both staffs and patients will at the result in the desired outcome. For old patients and staff, the hospital is well known as to how it operate...

Medical Prescription You will hardly leave a medical doctor office without a medical prescription. A medical prescription is a written note or instructions from a medical doctor to a health care provider in the hospital on what the patient condition is and what the others should do to find a lasting solutions. Ability to write a medical prescription is an art that must be learn by medical doctors. The ability to interpret by other health care providers is a requirement. Pharmacist are one of the major health providers that get to see prescription from patients all the time.   A visit to the hospital is hardly complete without a visit to the hospital pharmacy unit. A medical doctor has the power to send you to various units within the hospital to have a better diagnosis.  Getting the diagnosis right leads to getting proper treatment which most of the time require a drug for that. Doctors have, over time learn how to master medical terminologies of other units in other to...

Class of Drugs The national drug policy for Nigeria presents a formula in which categories falls into a framework for meeting the nation’s drug need.

rINN and Former List One of the functions of World Health Organisation (W.H.O) is the regulation of International Non-proprietary Names (I.N.Ns) which was established in 1950. Until date, about 7,000 names have been published. However, all of the pharmaceutical products available today are in their trade names, which are used for prescribing, dispensing, promotion or buying. The manufacturer of those product selects the names they want to use.  It should be known that two different manufacturers could produce one product and give it different trade names that they like. However, both products will have the same generic name (Non-Proprietary Name) maybe with different strength. National and international commissions design generic names. The naming has made it easy for medical practitioners to know the function, pharmacology and therapeutic effects of any drug once the INN is known. Read Also:   The Full List Of Drug Classification Of Nigeria Essential Medicine ...