information a patient can get from a pharmacist

Pharmacist being the expert of medicine is expected to communicate with patient on matters relating to the medication uses. A pharmacist should appropriately educate patients on the following when dispensing prescription and non-prescription drugs, when patient counseling on discharge medications or when providing recommendations about management of specific drug related problem name and class of the drug (e.g. antibiotic, pain reliever)

· 1-directions for use including education about drug device

2-special storage requirements

· 3-common or important drug-drug or drug-food interactions

· 4- the reason for the drug and the intended therapeutic response and associated time frames.

· 5-common or important side effects and associated time frames

· 6- what the patient should do to monitor his/her therapeutic response or development of side effects

· 7- actions the patient should take if the intended therapeutic response is not obtained or sideeffects develop when appropriate, the actions the pharmacist will undertake to monitor the patient's progress

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ABOUT TAPSA

Being the student aspiring to be health cadre delivers and service providers we are entitled responsibility to the Tanzanians and world at large as tomorrow health practitioners. Having a goal to prepare diligent health professionals ADUPS was founded in Mid August 1987 by MUCHS pharmacy students and as a result of guidance and support from IPSF, the association was officially registered on the 4th April 1990 in UDSM. It became a full member of IPSF and APSF in August 1993 and September 2002 respectively. ADUPS has being active for almost twenty years and her members have every reason to be proud for attaining this age. In the year-2007 MUCHS declared transformation from being a constituent College of University of Dar es Salaam to full fledged University hereby namely MUHAS. ADUPS had to transform her name and become TAPSA. Following this expansion the association is having chapters in Colleges/Universities providing a bachelor of P...

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INAUGURATION OF NEW TAPSA CHAPTER- KIU Dar-es-Salaam Campus

dear tapsa members we are having a great pleasure to announce to you that KIU - Dare salaam campus is now recognized as a new TAPSA chapter. the augmentation was conducted on 8th june with the presence of all members and leaders of Tapsa at KIU. The TAPSA MUHAS president and as acting national TAPSA PRESIDENT opened the branch with few talks on the role of TAPSA and the activities conducted by the organization. Also TAPSA general secretary Miss Grace Faustine gave a talk to audience with emphasis on paying TAPSA membership fee. on top of that the issue of 8th scientific conference and pharmacy week was given in brief . other roles of TAPSA will be discussed in large as members become active and full participatory PRESIDENT OF KIU...

Tanzania Pharmaceutial Students' Association - MUHAS Chapter

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