The Pharmacist’s Extended Role

A pharmacist's undergraduate and pre-registration training ensures that pharmacists have extensive pharmacological, pharmaceutical and clinical knowledge relating to drug compounds and medicaments. Moreover, pharmacists are required to develop pharmaceutical skills unique among health professionals. These skills enable pharmacists to be more than just dispensers of medicines.

At the point of handing over a dispensed medicine, pharmacists have an opportunity to reiterate and reinforce the prescribers instructions and, where appropriate, give additional advice and information. By reinforcing the prescribers instructions, already provided on the medicine's label, pharmacists may facilitate the likelihood of compliance of patients with the prescribed drug regimen. Moreover, since pharmacies are readily accessible in most communities, pharmacists are frequently asked for advice on health care. Such advice may involve the diagnosis and treatment of minor illness and, where necessary, the referral of patients to a general practitioner.

Advising patients on minor ailments, recommending treatments and 'counselling' patients on the correct way to use purchased or prescribed medication form the major elements of the 'extended role'.

Studies of the British public's health have indicated that 90 per cent of individuals suffer from at least one minor ailment within a two-week period (British Market Research Bureau, 1987). Pharmacists in the community are uniquely placed to advise patients on the most appropriate and effective way of dealing with such ailments. Pharmacies are visited daily by an estimated six million people (Pharmaceutical Journal, 1988b), including those who are healthy as well as those who are ill. Pharmacists are unique amongst health professionals in that they are readily available to the public, and can be consulted without the necessity of a prior appointment. Pharmacists are therefore able both to advise on matters of health care, and provide treatment when necessary. Health I care advice may be provided by the pharmacist through personal consultation and or by the provision of educational literature.

ВАРИАНТ 9

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грам­матическим признаках, какой частью речи являются слова, оформ­ленные окончанием s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The car makes 120 km an hour.

2. I can not see the bottle’s bottom.

3. It is a school for girls.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обра­щая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. Diagnostic testing, e.g. measurement of blood pressure and blood glucose and cholesterol levels.

2. Monitoring and reporting adverse drug reactions and interactions.

3. Drug annotation is an instruction paper of a medicine.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них функ­цию инфинитива и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We assembled to discuss and arrange our plans.

2. She was the first lady to leave.

3. He wanted them to watch the television programme.