Pharmacists care is a comprehensive approach stressing the importance of pharmacists consulting with their patients, conducting patient profile reviews, managing drug dispensing and distribution, and collaborating with other health care providers. The pharmacists care model emphasizes increasing patients knowledge about their medications and stresses the importance of patients maintaining their drug regimens in close consultation with their pharmacists. Pharmacists are the providers of drug information and the repository of drug therapy expertise, and as such, are available for consultation before the prescription is written. In fact, a pharmacist may decide it is best for the patient not to use a particular medication. In providing pharmacists care, the pharmacist becomes the patient s advocate, being directly responsible to that patient for seeing that the patient receives a positive outcome from the medication and is protected from drug misadventures.
Pharmacists have the responsibility for therapeutic outcomes resulting from their decisions.
This does not mean, however, that pharmacists are the ONLY authority in matters related to medication use. Pharmacists actions in providing pharmacists care should be conducted and viewed as collaborative. Pharmacists have the responsibility to function as members of the health care team who lead efforts to improve patients medication use. The Board of Pharmacy seeks to ensure a health care system in which . . . Pharmacists are patient advocates who provide pharmacists care for the citizens of California, enlightening them about their drug therapy through effective communicating and listening, assessing, collaborating, understanding and intervening.