Elham Alshammari

Abstract

Pharmacists can be defined as a healthcare professional responsible for medication ‎dispensations as well as ensuring patient safety through appropriate medication utilization. ‎They play a significant role not only on the overall healthcare cost implications but also the ‎patient safety concerns when using medications. The scope of this paper will be to evaluate the ‎practice of prescription amongst the final pharmacy students in the school through the use of a ‎prospective research methodology. From 137 students, 31 failed to identify the error in dosing ‎‎(22.6%) while 106 (77.4%) responded with the presence of error and from these 102 (74.5%) ‎recommended to adjust the dose according to patient weight correctly‎.