PHARMACISTS' ROLE IN PATIENT COUNSELING

G. Hale ÖZCÖMERT*, Sevgi SAR*, Gülbin ÖZÇELIKAY*°, Eris ASIL

*Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Departmant of Pharmacy Management, 06100 Tandogan, Ankara, TURKEY.
°Corresponding Author

Summary:
Patient counseling is a drug-information function. The pharmacist provides information to help patients take their drugs appropriately. The information is drug focused. In patient counseling, the type and amount of information to be given and the patients who will receive it is defined.
In this study, an inquiry has been carried out with 442 pharmacists, chosen among 1319 hospital and community pharmacists by the ratio-scale sampling method. The data was collected by personal interviews. The statistical analysis was made utilizing the SPSS (ver. 5.0) software programme. In this study, pharmacists' role in the important component of Pharmaceutical care, is determined and the different aspects of the subject have been discussed.

Key words:
Patient counseling, Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical care.