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Essay On Community Pharmacy

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Exploring Community Pharmacies and Their Role in Health Promotion
A community pharmacy is vital part within the healthcare system when it comes to health promotion. Pharmacists are an excellent resource when it comes to educating patients with medication knowledge, and directing patients towards the proper procedure of taking their prescribed medication. On Saturday, January 20th, 2018, military time 1909, I visited the pharmacy section of a Shoppers Drug Mart located on Kingsway and Nanaimo in Vancouver. This paper explores how a community pharmacy can educate individuals on the medications they are taking, and the similarities and differences between a pharmacist and a nurse.
One of the pharmacist’s main goal is to provide individuals with knowledge about the medication they have been prescribed. If a pharmacist has 100% medical knowledge, I believe that an average person has roughly 5% knowledge regarding medication action, side effects, and contraindications. Most people only know what their …show more content…

Clients drop off their prescription to be filled by the pharmacist, and the pharmacist brings the prescription to the back for review before he/she carries it out. Codes are electronically scanned and the pharmacist begins filling the prescription. After filling the prescription, the client is then called up to pick up and pay for their medication. I did not notice what the conversation is between the pharmacist and client, and whether the pharmacist asked for any identification or not because I did not want to invade their privacy and confidentiality.
A trade named medication that I found during my visit to the pharmacy was Reactine. A generic brand of the same medication was manufactured by Western Family and costed $22.99 for 48 tablets of 10mg of Cetirizine Hydrochloride. Reactine costed $32.99 for 48 tablets of 10mg of Cetirizine Hydrochloride.
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