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Train your team: seasonal ailments

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Train your team: seasonal ailments

Training your team and ensuring everyone's knowledge is up-to-date are important CPD triggers. We suggest that you get the team together for a training session based on the activities below and discuss the various ways in which you can offer customers and patients added care in this category.

Subject: seasonal ailments

This Train Your Team checklist provides support and information to run a team training session on seasonal ailments. This content can also be used for your own CPD.

Reflection

  • Do we create an effective display of products for seasonal ailments?
  • Is the pharmacy team confident in its ability to pass on tips for helping to reduce calorie intake over the festive season?
  • Are they confident about advising on the relief of indigestion before and after eating and drinking too much?
  • Do we give practical advice on how to manage food and drink consumption at parties?
  • Are we confident in helping customers or their family members with SAD?

Training checklist

Ensure your support staff understand the following key points:

  • The importance of watching out for people who are miserable during the festive season and/or suffer from SAD
  • The importance of reminding people to ensure they have adequate stocks of prescription medicines for the holiday
  • How many units of alcohol there are in different types of alcoholic drinks
  • The importance of drinking plenty of water at party time and if diarrhoea strikes
  • Specific hygiene tips to reduce passing on colds and coughs, norovirus, and similar GI upsets
  • When to refer customers to the pharmacist.

Action. I will ensure:

  • Consider how we can further raise our profile as a centre of prevention and treatment of seasonal ailments
  • Ensure that our seasonal window displays give passers-by informative messages about what we can do to help
  • Ensure that we make some time to celebrate Christmas together as a pharmacy team.

Practice points

  • Pick a seasonal theme for one or more of your pharmacy windows. What about first aid kits and the importance of stocking up on medicines for the holiday period?
  • What opportunities are there in your area for getting exercise over Christmas? Have the details available about local walks and gym opening times during the holiday period.
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