The situation of pharmaceutical care: revolution or paradigmatic twilight?

Abstract

In order to understand the situation of pharmaceutical care in a municipal health system, we
took as a starting point the study of the degree of adherence and incorporation of the professional paradigm that guides this practice. With a qualitative design and an ethnographic approach, the criteria that guided this investigation sought to typify the variety of scenarios, motivations and procedures that are associated with this professional exercise. This cutout allowed us to examine whether the movements that operate pharmaceutical care are still an area of darkness or the concreteness of a new care model for Pharmacy has already been achieved. The results inform a variety of arrangements, constructive designs, and a conceptual framework. There is no congruence or delimitation of its structuring components. The entire scenario reveals that we are still in a phase of twilight or paradigmatic crisis, in which the old paradigm has not yet been totally abandoned in the face of the superiority of the new one. This is observed in the absence of a standardized interpretation capable of revealing recurrent and shared elements. Thus, the recognition of an exemplary achievement, capable of consolidating the maturity and paradigmatic transition of pharmaceutical care, was not found.