Question

II. Feelings – How did you feel when you assumed the role of a pharmacist counseling a patient?

III. Evaluation – When counseling your patient, what do you think you did well? What do you think you could have done differently to improve your counseling?

IV. Analysis – Reflect on your peer evaluator’s assessment of your counseling session. Do you agree with your peer evaluator’s assessment? Why or why not?

Answer 1

II. Feelings _Counselling a patient provides an opportunity to elicit necessary information from a patient, and to enable safe and effective use of medicines. To provide a effective pharmaceutical care, a pharmacist need to acknowledge the responsibility they have in a patient’s pharmacotherapeutic outcomes.

*Be a good receptor /listener to the patient

*Be a good observer

* Reassure the concerns of patients

* Counsel them in an effective and understanding language

* Provide an environment that provide space for counselling

III. Evaluation _ Presentation of subject plays an important role in counselling.

* Establishment of strong therapeutic relationship with patient that provide an open ended discussion

* Communication - Introduce and effective and receptive communication that should not make confusion.

*Include scenarios and activities, that enhance more involvement in the section

* Uses examples for the terms and Terminologies in the conversation

* Include real life stories and situations to make it more effective

IV. Analysis _Yes, I do agree with the concept. An evaluation or assessment will provide a feedback to the action,which help to improve the quality of the work do.It encourages the self-reflexivity that fosters critical thinking skills.