Good Hospital Governance and the Role of Pharmacists from the Perspective of Indonesian Law and Regulations
Gunawan Widjaja
Universitas Tarumanagara
Abstract
Objective: This research aimed to elaborate the role of pharmacists in hospital to establish good hospital governance in accordance with Indonesian rules and regulations. Method: This research is a normative research. Data were obtained through literature search using “google machine” with “good hospital governance”, “pharmacists- role in hosptal”, “pharmacists- regulations in indonesia” as keywords. Data were analyzed using qualitative method. Collected raw data were reduced to the most relevant data by conducting content analysis. The relevant data were used to analyze the purpose of the research. Results: Good hospital governance needs a good administration of alll hospital activities that support the madical care, and good clinical governance in providing medical care for patient safety. Finding proved that there were not many provisions in the rules and regulations that govern the role of pharmacists in hospital. However those provisions were sufficient enough to justify the role of pharmacists to assist “creating” and maintaining good hospital governance. Conclusion: Pharmacists have two important but different side by side roles in good hospital governance settings.
Keywords: hospital governance, pharmacist- role, clinical governance
Topic: Other Hospital Issue