Jill Drury, PharmD, MBA

Community pharmacists are in an ideal position to educate patients on how to protect themselves from the harmful effects of the sun.

By relying on medication reconciliation, hospital pharmacists can prevent errors that occur when a patient's medications include prescription and/or OTC drugs and herbal and/or dietary supplements.

Brown bag counseling sessions do not have to be time-consuming or burdensome.

Brown bagging provides a smooth introduction for a pharmacist to participate in and offer extended counseling concepts such as medication therapy management.

Pharmacists can have a positive impact when it comes to identifying and helping patients during influenza season.

Offering brown bag sessions to diabetes patients can help you monitor compliance in a patient dealing with a complex disease state as well as a number of other benefits.

Lives can be saved by encouraging screening for colorectal cancer in eligible patients.

Open-ended communication and proactive education are essential in the pharmacy setting.

Understanding the characteristics of gastrointestinal issues, the challenges of patient care, and the available treatment options is essential to providing comprehensive patient care in pharmacy.

Pharmacists can provide guidance on preventing sun-related skin conditions.

Pharmacists can increase regimen compliance by taking the time to educate patients.

For patients without reliable primary care, a brown bag session can be a new beginning.

Checking for omissions, duplications, dosing errors, compliance, and drug interactions by an inpatient or outpatient pharmacy team can prevent errors and ensure that a patient's medications are accurate and safe.

Patients with chronic pain are prime candidates for a medication review because of possible interactions, toxicities, and adherence issues.

A Patient with type 2 diabetes has inadequate blood glucose control.

All pharmacists have the skills needed to implement effective medication therapy management, and the rewards are many.

A patient with hypertension presents a drug regimen that includes a total of 9 medications.