Analysis of Pharmacist’s Integrated Patients Progress Notes (IPPN) in Hospitalized Geriatric Hypertension Patients

Monitoring drug therapy is one part of the standard of pharmaceutical services in hospitals which is the responsibility of pharmacists with document efforts through Integrated Patient Progress Notes (IPPN). The method of writing patient development notes is in the form of Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) data. The suitability of SOAP filling is essential because it is a means of communication, coordination, or col Laboratoriumation between health professionals in providing services to patients, preventing errors and repetition of information, and helping health professionals manage time. This study aims to analyze the completeness and suitability of filling out the IPPN form. This research method was carried out descriptively qualitative with a case study approach and retrospective data collection from the medical records of patients with Geriatric Hypertension Inpatient from Hospital X in Padang City. From 125 available data, 31 cases were obtained that met the inclusion criteria, and results for the analysis of the completeness of the pharmacist's IPPN writing, namely 23 IPPN (71.1%) which were written completely, and 8 other IPPN (25.8%) were written incompletely with the most frequent category of completeness not written, the time of writing IPPN. As for the results of the analysis of the pharmacist's IPPN writing pattern, there were no IPPN (0%) written correctly / according to the 31 IPPN analyzed.