Tem farmacêutico na farmácia: as percepções dos farmacêuticos sobre seu trabalho nas farmácias comunitárias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The community pharmacy has an important scene in the Brazilian public health, and local medication dispensing and continuously promote the consumption of medicines to the population. In these establishments, the user search through the consumption of products, prescribed or no, the restoration of his health. The pharmacist is a health professional with specific training on drugs and that the imperative of health legislation, is placed as technical manager, this locus. What is your motivation to enter this career? How is your practice and what is perceived by him in everyday reality? This study aimed to identify the conception that pharmaceutical technicians responsible, active in community pharmacies in the state of Rio de Janeiro, have on their professional practice and how this vision can be related to the implementation of patient-focused practices, such as pharmaceutical care. 15 semi-structured interviews with pharmacy technicians in the state of Rio de Janeiro were held responsible pharmacists, representing the following typology: pharmacies statewide network of local and family network. The categorization of the speech of pharmacists showed at least four convergences: a deficiency in the academic learning process, pharmaceutical practice migrating to the patient, the continuing difficulties of the population regarding the use of drugs and the superficial knowledge of the concept of pharmaceutical care. It is thought that the actual situation may not be very different from the large number of community pharmacies in the state of Rio de Janeiro itself, calling for thoughts on this topic to bring us to a moment of discussion about which elements are likely to ensure , the pharmaceutical insert with complementary praxis in health services.