Community Health 7 of 10 Teaching Steps 1. Discuss what pharmacists do. Explain that one of the members of the community is the pharmacist.
Pharmacists help people understand the proper way to take medicine.
Discuss different kinds of medicine. The directions are the same for everyone who is a certain age. Prescriptions come from a doctor. Prescription medicines have directions just for the person whose name is on the label. When doctors write prescriptions, they decide how much medicine people should have.