This July seems to be a happy month for all pharmacist and pharmacy students in Yogyakarta. Taking advantages from the series of the 17th ACCP (Asian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy) held in this city of student, 2 guest lectures were set up in collaboration of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD), Universitas Sanata Dharma (USD), Universitas Muhammadyah Yogyakarta (UMY) and Universitas Airlangga (Unair). The aim is offering update for new knowledges and paradigm in Clinical Pharmacy today, how to initiate, construct and implement ideal practice of pharmacists.
On Friday, July, 28 2017, located in Islamic Centre UAD, Prof. Charles F. Lacy from Roseman University of Health Sciences delivered his lecture. He is the author of Drug Information Handbook and expert in clinical pharmacy practice. There were about 300 registered participants who were fascinated to join. As the magnet of that was topic “Enhancing and Amalgamating Medication Therapy Management through Cross-cultural Unification and Teamwork”. These issues are very substantial and important for better pharmacy practice, especially in Indonesia.
Prof. Lacy persuade all of pharmacists to take notice on principal problem they experienced in. The problem is lack capability of pharmacists to work in team. “We must realise to collaborate instead of work in small groups. Conflict makes problem, collaborate make better outcome”, he said. The collaboration between physicians, pharmacists and nurses should be initiated by determining and formulating their common goals together. They must work in team and give the best for patients satisfactions and their quality of lives. Furthermore, he asked to break up the hierarchy profession problem in health care team. United States had released a collaborative agreements/contract between physicians with nurses and pharmacists. Thus, there is no superiority of physicians to nurses and other practicioners, they can work in solid team.
Communication in term of sharing pharmacist knowledges, is a key point to build good collaboration. Everyone in team should well and effectively talk to others and discuss their problems. He invoked pharmacist as the specialist in drug therapy to show up themselves and offer their viewpoint to other health practicioners about therapy management. They would not be recognized as the urge health care provider unless gain their added values in team. In the end, he emphasized,”Researcher, the newest star of pharmacists, is potentially promote you to get trust and acknowledgment from patients and health care providers. You have pharmacology, pharmacogenomics and pharmacotherapy which they don’t have. Make they believe that you care about patient goodness.” (Fajar Aji/Farmasi UGM)