PHAR 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Natural Health Product, Health Food Store, Horsepower
11 Sep 2016
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Ethics: describe the professional obligation of pharmacists with respect to natural health products (nhps), explain where patients get their information about nhps, discuss the ethical tensions surrounding selling nhps in a pharmacy. Since jan 1, 2004, nhps have been regulated as a subset of drugs at the level of the food and drugs act, meaning they are included in canadian pharmacists" scope of practice. Help you patients make an informed decision. Respect the beliefs of your patients; however, discourage unsafe or inappropriate use. Consumer demand and pharmacists are in a unique position of point of sale and ability to counsel. Better than them being bought online or in a health food store. Ethical duty to promote evidence-based pharmacy practive, therefore pharmacies should not sell products that do not have evidence to back them. Vast majority of pharmacists lack the knowledge to be able to counsel pts about nhps. Almost 60% of pts don"t ask for advice from a pharmacist.
