Perception of Community Pharmacy Personnel towards Patient Counseling and Continuing Pharmacy Education Programs in Aden, Yemen

continUing EDuCAtiON Patient health literacy in the Community Pharmacy Setting

pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low ...

patient counseling in pharmacy

Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation.

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation is a potentially appropriate role for community pharmacists because they are encouraged to advise on the correct use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products and to provide behavioural support to aid smoking cessation. OBJECTIVES This review assessed the effectiveness of interventions by community pharmacy personnel to assist clients to stop smoking. SEARC...

Pharmacy practice and its challenges in Yemen.

BACKGROUND Pharmacy practice in Yemen was established in 1875 in Aden. OBJECTIVES To describe pharmacy practice as it currently exists in Yemen, the challenges the profession faces, and to recommend changes that will improve pharmaceutical care services. METHODS This study has two parts. Part 1 comprised a literature search performed between May and July 2011 to identify published studies o...

Tele-Patient: audiovisual education in the pharmacy.

T he Tele-Patient series of "on-the-counter" patient education films produced for use in the pharmacy by A-V Scientific Aids in cooperation with APhA has been on view in several national al}d regional pharmacy chains and in many community pharmacies for the past two years. "Although only 10 of the films produced so far were tailored specifically for pharmacists, we've found that pharmacists are...