You and Your Pharmacist

Canada’s most trusted health care professional, pharmacists are the medication experts. They have the most in-depth knowledge of drug therapies compared to all other healthcare professionals.

But your New Brunswick pharmacist also provides a wide range of vital, front-line health care services that are crucial to helping you maintain your health and crucial to the health care system. Pharmacists are one of the most accessible, front-line health care providers. They are available during evenings, weekends and on holidays without an appointment.

Across Canada, the role of pharmacists is expanding.

Your New Brunswick pharmacist delivers a wide range of services:

• Prescribe and adapt medications
• Give flu shots and shingle vaccines among others
• Review medications
• Help patients stop smoking
• Assess, treat and prescribe for certain minor ailments
• Provide device training for tools like blood pressure kits, puffers and blood sugar testing
• Provide hospitals with medical summaries for newly admitted patients.
• Perform medication reconciliations for patients discharged from hospital
• Advise patients by phone and in person on health issues
• Advise on cough syrup, vitamins and over the counter medications
• Distribute sharps containers for diabetic patients’ needles
• Collect and properly disposes of unwanted and expired medications
• Deliver to seniors and individuals who are unable to come to the pharmacy
• Call doctors’ offices for prescriptions errors, possible drug interactions and drug duplications
• Help special care homes manage their medications
• Provide compliance pack medications for people who for one reason or another find it difficult to manage their medications