1. My essential question is, "How can a clinical
pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?"
2. My second answer to my essential question is adherence rather than compliance.
3. This means that the patient must be fully aware of the disease state and drug regimen. They not only have to be fully aware but be motivated and encouraged by the clinical pharmacist to follow through. According to my third interview, who is both a clinical
pharmacist and a retail pharmacist, most, if not all the patients he consults
knows nothing about the disease state and drug regimen. By telling the patient
of the disease state they are in, they will not only know why they have to take
the drug regimen but what is happening to them. As a clinical pharmacist, it is their job to
let the patient know how serious their disease is and what could possibly
happen if they don't comply with the drug regimen. According to ACCP, in a
paper published called "Clinical Pharmacist Competencies," a clinical pharmacist needs to be able to
educate patients so that they can improve the patient's outcomes. Therefore, it's extremely important to have the patient understand the disease and drug regimen to optimize the patient's outcomes just from a quality consultation.
4. My most important source that helped me prove this answer
was my 3rd interview and a paper published by the ACCP.
5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by studying more
about what a clinical pharmacist does and cases of clinical pharmacists
actually consulting the patient. I also plan to talk to the person I
interviewed for my 3rd interview and try to work out a time where I could possibly observe a consultation.
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