Blog 18: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. How can a clinical pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?

2. My third answer is the patient being the pharmacist through follow up care.

3. In about a week or a month, a follow up care is necessary to really ensure that the patient's understanding and health. Each follow up care is different and customized to the patient depending on their disease state and drug regimen. The whole point of the follow up care is to review the first consultation but having the patient being the clinical pharmacist. They can do this by explaining what the drug regimen is to you. This can prove further understanding of the drug regimen and to make sure the patient isn't missing anything.

4. The source that helped me was talking to Robert Ngo. He is a clinical pharmacist. From him, I then did further research on the importance of follow up care. One article that showed how important follow up care was an article called, "Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative Change Package." It talked about the goals of clinical pharmacy and what can be improved. Follow up care was under those categories.

5. I plan to do more research on follow up care so that I'll be able to talk more about how important follow up care can be to a patient and how it can contribute to having a quality patient consultation.