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Looking Forward: Pharmacists of the Future
Introduction
This assignment is also designed to develop your critical thinking skills, particularly in making learned decisions. One of the most important reasons we study the past is to learn from it. After reading all of the assigned articles in this course and watching the designated movies, there had to be some impact on how you feel about your chosen profession. You are being asked to prepare a short paper discussing how you feel current pharmacists perceive their role and how you see the professional in twenty years.
Learning Activities
Refer, read, and reflect on the readings from this course, from other classes, and ones you may have found that discuss the past and/or future of our profession.
oDiscuss how you think that preceptors or practicing pharmacists you know perceive their current roles and how they look at the future (or do not look at the future).
§Is he / she afraid or will they be able to embrace the coming changes?
§How can we best integrate technology with improving patient care?
§What should be added to the pharmacy curriculum to make you better prepared for the future? What should be removed to make room for your additions?
§How else should Colleges of Pharmacy change to prepare you better for the future?
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Running head: PHARMACY AND HEALTH
Pharmacy and Health
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
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PHARMACY AND HEALTH
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The Role of Pharmacy in Healthcare
Pharmacists are healthcare providers whose main engrossment is in medicine and
provides patients with medical prescriptions from doctor’s diagnosis. The leading roles of
pharmacists include quantifying medicines supplied to patients, ensuring the medical supply of
drugs is safe and within the law standards. In addition, they crosscheck the drug prescriptions
given to patients, ensure that they are suitable, and offer the medicines they feel are more
appropriate. In some cases, they may advise and even diagnose patients based on the medical
knowledge in school. Furthermore, pharmacists are responsible for supervising medical supplies
and ensuring pharmacy premises and systems are well apt for their purpose (Krzyzaniak, &
Bajorek, 2017). In addition to these roles, they offer blood pressure monitoring amenities,
healthy lifestyle behaviors advice, etc.
Pharmacists perceive these roles as being too paltry as their functions are simple in
practice compared to the co...