You and Your Pharmacist: A Winning Team
Patient Education Video

A pharmacist’s role is continuously expanding within the health care delivery system to be more patient-centric. To help you educate your patients about a pharmacist’s expanding role on the health care team, the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) has developed a patient education video entitled You and Your Pharmacist: A Winning Team. The video highlights some innovative pharmacy practices that are happening in pharmacies across the country and how pharmacists are having a profound impact on the health and well-being of their patients. 

How to Use

There are several ways you can utilize the You and Your Pharmacist: A Winning Team patient education video to help your patients and the general public grasp the critical role pharmacists play on the nation’s health care team. The video was produced in broadcast quality format so that it can be played in your practice setting if you have the capability to play videos. You can also use the video during presentations to your patients or patient groups, such as diabetics or seniors; prospective or current pharmacy students; or your community during a health fair. If your practice setting has a Web site, the video can be streamed for viewing by your Web site visitors.  For those of you utilizing social networking or video sharing Web sites, such as YouTube, Facebook or MySpace, you can upload this video to share with your network of friends, family or colleagues.

Contents

You and Your Pharmacist: A Winning Team is a six-minute patient education video depicting three different scenarios of practicing pharmacists teaming with their patients to help them maximize the benefits of medication therapy.

Scene 1: Building Long-Term Relationships – highlights the importance of dialogue between the patient and pharmacist to ensure that patients are getting the most out of their medications.

Scene 2: Pharmacist/Physician Team Approach – highlights the importance of collaboration between the patient or the patients’ caregiver, the pharmacist and physician to help patients manage their medications, particularly patients on chronic medications.

Scene 3: Diabetes Education & Monitoring – highlights how pharmacists can help patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes manage their medications and the effects of the disease.

APhA hopes you find this patient education tool useful and we thank all of our American Pharmacists Month Champions for all that you do to promote the profession of pharmacy!