Role of a Pharmacist and MTM!

The pharmacist has a broader role and they must be analyzed by keeping in view their broader functions. It is important to assess the role of the pharmacist in MTM. This is a great therapy mechanism that has multiple components that are mentioned below:

The primary components of MTM

Following are some mutually agreed primary components of MTM:

• Analyzing the existing medications that a patient is receiving:
  Pharmacist has to assess what the patient is taking and how it can be altered in order to enhance the effectiveness of the medicine. This will help them in assessing the effect of the medicine on the patient as well and what should be added further will be known too. 
• Evaluating all the problems faced by the patient concerning the medications being received:
  Most of the patients have a different kind of reactions by taking different medicines. In addition, at times the reactions are so worse that the patient may have to go to the hospital. Therefore, it is essential to understand the significance of different reactions that can be caused as a result of taking different medicines. 
• Keeping a record of all the patient related information:
  This is one of the most leading things, in this case, owing to the fact that patient’s history will allow you to have a sound knowledge regarding the previous medication and its reaction on the patient. 

Identification of cases where the intrusion is required:  

The broader input of pharmacist:

Here are some other works that are done by the pharmacists:

• Supplying medicines to animals and checking their quality:
  Pharmacists not just deal with the medicine of humans; rather they also deal with medicines that are given to animals and also check their quality. They assess the values of different components in the medicine and how it may affect the one taking it.
  
• Taking into account the history of the patients:
  It is also the duty of pharmacist to get to know about the past history and the current condition of the patient before handing them over a medicine. If a pharmacist does not have any background history, he must check the vitals of the patient.

-Yale Mendelson