Al Ain Hospital – United Arab Emirates – International Best Practice Competition – 2018 (Advanced Pharmacy Practice Initiative: Unit Based Pharmacist)

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Initiative: Unit Based Pharmacist Traditionally, In-patient pharmacist is centrally located in In-Patient pharmacy and is involved in the verification of physician orders, preparation and dispensing of medications and provision of drug information services. Being centrally located, there is negligible face to face direct communication between physicians, nurses and pharmacists. This area of improvement is being undertaken by Unit based Pharmacist (UBP) project, located