1st Test Flashcards
What is the difference between self-care and self-medication?
Self-medication is just one component of self-care. Self-care involves many other factors such as lifestyle, nutrition, hygiene, and so on.
What is self-care?
What people do for themselves to establish and maintain health, prevent, and deal with illness.
What is self-medication?
Choosing a nonprescription medication, nutritional dietary supplement, and/or natural products and homeopathic remedies to treat self diagnosed illness or symptoms.
What are the components that must be in a nonprescription drug label and in what order?
- Active ingredients and the amount in each dosage unit
- Purpose of the medication
- Use (indications) for the drug
- Warnings - when to consult help, when not to use, side effects, substances to avoid. (pregnant or breastfeeding, keep out of reach of children)
- Directions- dosage instructions (for different age groups)
- Other information - storage requirements
- Inactive ingredients
What is QuEST?
QUickly and accurately access the patient - ask about current complaint, ask about other medications and products, ask about coexisting condition and allergies (SCHOLAR-MAC)
Establish that the patient is an appropriate self-care candidate - No sever symptoms, no symptoms that persist/return repeatedly without an identifiable cause, no self-treating to avoid medical care
Suggest appropriate self-care strategies
Talk with the patient about - Medication action, administration, and adverse effects and how to manage them.
What is SCHOLAR-MAC?
Symptoms Characteristics History Onset Location Aggravating Factors Remitting factors Medications Allergies Conditions
What are the 6 components of self-care?
hygiene, socioeconomic factors, environmental factors, lifestyle, nutrition, and self-medication
Why is there an increasing reliance for self-medication?
aging population, restricted access to health care providers through health management organizations, increasing cost of health care, high percentage of underinsured or uninsured people, convenience/easy access, and cost effectiveness of self-medication products.
What are the requirements before a person can self-medicate?
Medications used are of proven safety, quality, and efficacy. Medications used for conditions that are self-recognizable and for some chronic or recurrent conditions (following initial medical diagnosis).
According to WHO what should a nonprescription drug label include?
How to take/use the medication, intended effects and possible side effects, how the effects should be monitored, possible interactions, precautions and warnings, duration of use, and when to seek professional advice.
What are the three options for patients who are seeking self-treatment?
No-treatment, treatment, and referral
What should follow-up monitoring include?
Specific goals that are measureable by the patient, a specific time frame for follow up with the pharmacist, how to address potential complications or adverse effects, signs and symptoms that indicate the need for medical attention from a primary care provider.
What are STEPS?
Critical thinking tool:
Summarize the problem and characterize severity
Take into consideration key pieces of information and data or tabulate information and data
Evaluate the options
Provide a recommendation
Suggest an appropriate monitoring and follow-up plan or Set it up
Pharmacists can have a major role in self-care. T/F
True
What is a dietary supplement?
A product intended to supplement the diet, contains one or more dietary ingredients or their constituents, is intended to be taken by mouth as a pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid, and is labeled on the front panel as being a dietary supplement.
What are labeling requirements for dietary supplements?
General: Name of product (includes word "supplement" or a statement) Net quantity of contents Name and place of business of manufacturer, packer or distributor Directions for use Supplement Facts Panel: Serving size List of dietary ingredients Amount per serving size Percent of daily value Proprietary blends - total weight of the blend and components Botanical Ingredients Other ingredients
What are counseling techniques that you would use to communicate clinical information regarding vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements to patients?
Ask them how long do you plan to use this product, what kinds of benefits are you expecting, how much of a benefit are you expecting, are you willing to continue taking this product for over a month if you do not see any benefits at that time?
What is a CAM?
Complementary and alternative medicine that medical and health care practices outside the realm of conventional medicine, which are yet to be validated using scientific methods.
What is complementary medicine?
Use with Conventional medical practices
What is alternative medicine?
Use in place of conventional medical practices.
A dietary supplement must contain what information in a health claim, nutrient content claim, structure/function claim?
Health claim - relationship between a food and reducing a risk of a disease or health-related condition.
Nutrient claim - Relative amount of a nutrient or dietary substance within a product.
Structure/Function - How a product may affect the organs or systems of the body and cannot mention a specific disease.
What is a dietary supplement disclaimer?
This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Promotes urinary tract health - ok
helps prevent urinary tract infection - false
What law provides requirements related to good manufacturing practices of dietary supplements?
Dietary Supplement Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) 2007
How do you find information on current recommendations for daily intake of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements in the U.S?
Daily Recommended Intake chart
What drug will Vitamin K interact with?
Warfarin
