Can we visualize our universe without clinical pharmacists? In fact, we can't. In the hospital setting, developing patient outcomes can't be accomplished without clinical pharmacists. We own various skills but the similar target, to serve the patient life. Visualize a universe where physicians, clinical pharmacists, and nurses respect each other, as well put the patient priority first. For most of us, this is the right and developed world.

Chronic diseases are a prime health issue and cause of death worldwide. Anyway, patients with chronic ailments should be supervised by an interprofessional care team containing medicinal specialists, general practitioners, pharmacists, and nurses (Rahayu et al., 2021). Clinical pharmacists can participate their efficiencies in therapeutic counsels, identification of medication related issues, drug review, and encouragement of medication compliance (Francis and Abraham, 2014).

Contribution of a clinical pharmacist in ICU/ward rounds and clinical debates assists to identify, prohibit or decrease drug interactions and adverse drug reactions (ADR) (Francis and Abraham, 2014; Kucukarslan et al., 2003). Clinical pharmacy services improve and preserve a clinical exercise with a patient patronage service, collaborating with medicinal and nursing personnel to develop the pharmacotherapeutic sides of patient patronage (Makowsky et al., 2009).

Medication errors happen frequently in medicinal wards. However, clinical pharmacists' involvements can functionally prohibit these errors. The kinds of errors suggest the demand for ongoing education and application of clinical pharmacist's involvements (Khalili et al., 2011).

Clinical pharmacists participate to interprofessional health patronage teams by supplying inclusive drug management to confirm that medications are effective, safe, and suitable for the patients' situations. Functions of such pharmacists contain patient care, research, teaching, and administration (Yuet and Lounsbery, 2021). The clinical pharmacist has diverse duties in caring for patients in an intensive care unit (ICU), and critical patronage pharmacy services have been established to decrease adverse events and medication errors (McNeely, 2017).

There are various chances for clinical pharmacists to perfectly influence outcomes and minimize health-care costs in hospital setting throughout the early admission time as well, during the following continuum of patronage. The involvement of a clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary healthcare team may decrease healthcare expenditures during the medication optimization. Clinical pharmacists work with doctors, health professionals, as well patients in various settings, to confirm that the drugs prescribed for patients can contribute to the preferable health results. So Please, Be Cautious……We Are The Clinical Pharmacists!!! The life will be difficult without us!!!!

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McNeely, EB. (2017). Treatment Considerations and the Role of the Clinical Pharmacist Throughout Transitions of Care for Patients With Acute Heart Failure. J Pharm Pract., 30(4):441-450. doi: 10.1177/0897190016645435.

Rahayu, SA., Widianto, S., Defi, IR. et al. (2021). Role of Pharmacists in the Interprofessional Care Team for Patients with Chronic Diseases. J Multidiscip Healthc, 14:1701-1710. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S309938.

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