Abstract

Community pharmacist had suffered more intrusions from allied health care professionals and non-health professionals in the fields of practice/or endeavor, in history and even lately. Efforts in improving on its tenets of practice in Nigeria are still at the seeding states. This study determines the extent of practice carried out in pharmacy administrative areas such as premises and structure, practice management and quality improvement domains in community pharmacies in Bayelsa State and Rivers States as at the year 2017. Of three hundred and thirty-seven (337) questionnaires distributed, three hundred and twelve (312) were successfully retrieved (92.58% response rate), and results were analyzed using SPSS VERSION 27. The study reveals involvement of more male pharmacists (161; 51.6%) most of whom are below age 30 (177; 56.7%) having B.Pharm (177; 56.7%) having 6 to 10 years’ experience (140; 44.9%) in self-owned premises (190; 60.8%) located mostly in Rivers States (172; 55.1%). There was a significant adherence to premises and structure regulations (p

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