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Patient Medication Counselling for Pharmacists

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Pharmacists play a central role in ensuring medication safety and compliance across the continuum of care.

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As articulated by the World Health Organisation, community pharmacists are the health professionals who are most accessible to the public. Integral to the pharmacy profession is a commitment to promoting health awareness in the community. Pharmacists can directly influence positive outcomes for patients by educating and counselling them to assist their compliance to their pharmacotherapeutic regimens and monitoring plans.

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Karen Doyle
21 Mar 2023
Good information
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Gladys Perez
08 Sep 2021
Boost your confidence in patient counselling
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Kate McCallum
05 Feb 2023
Registered Nurse
Helpful, an important topic to know more about - thanks!!!
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Tamer Ahmed
11 Sep 2020
good
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Kerry Deans
04 Apr 2023
Interesting information, have gained some additional knowledge.
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Crezen Serquina
12 Oct 2021
Give me another stepping stone in my career. It will provide additional knowledge for effective patient counseling on drugs and will help to reduce medication errors in the future.
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Hend Elmor
12 Dec 2021
It is really helpful
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Josef Ebel
12 Sep 2020
One of the questions at the end didn't seem to link up to the information that was in the article
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Jiji K
03 Sep 2021
Very useful and accurate to topic
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Mandy Lu
11 May 2022
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