Pharmacist Prescribing
Your Super Thrifty pharmacist is an integral part of your healthcare team.
Working alongside your doctor, nurse practitioner, psychiatrist, nurse, and dentist we’re here to help ensure you reach your optimal health outcome. Your pharmacist has trained in medicinal chemistry and understands how drugs may interact with each other and how they work in your body. Pharmacists can provide many health care services beyond dispensing medication.*
Provide advice on non-prescription medications and medical devices
Talking to your pharmacist when you need a non-prescription drug helps you to select the medication that is best for you. It also helps you to avoid harmful effects caused by any drug interactions or the worsening of your medical conditions. Your pharmacist can also help you select and use medical devices such as diabetic supplies and metered-dose inhaler-spacer devices.
Working with your usual prescriber, your pharmacist can issue a prescription to extend the medication you need to treat a chronic condition when your usual prescriber is unavailable. Note this does not apply to narcotic and other controlled drugs.
Adapt a prescription
Working with you and your prescriber, your pharmacist can adapt a prescription by altering the dosage strength, formulation, or regimen of the drug prescribed to more closely meet your needs.
Prescribe medications for uncomplicated UTI (bladder infection)
Many Super Thrifty pharmacists have completed additional training and have been authorized to prescribe medications to treat uncomplicated, recurring bladder infections. in non-pregnant patients presenting typical signs and symptoms. Under certain conditions, your pharmacist may refer you to another healthcare provider such as your primary care doctor or nurse practitioner.
Prescribe medications for self-limiting conditions
Super Thrifty pharmacists have been authorized to prescribe medications to treat certain self-limiting conditions. Examples of these conditions include:
• Acne Treatment
• Minor Eye/Ear Infection or irritation
• Allergy Treatments
• Epipens
• Children’s Multivitamins
• Constipation Treatments
• Condoms (contraceptives)
• Diabetic Supplies (limited)
• Emergency Contraception (Morning-After Pill)
• Fever in Children (Advil/Tylenol)• Yeast and Fungal Infections
• Head Lice Treatment
• Prenatal Vitamins/Folic acid
• General Nausea and Nausea During Pregnancy
• Narcotic Overdose
• Smoking Cessation
• Inhaler Spacing Devices
• Vitamin D (all ages)
• Wart Treatments
• Colonoscopy Preparations
Administer a drug by injection
Super Thrifty pharmacists can administer any injectable medication or vaccine for patients 7 years and older. These can include:
• Travel and workplace vaccinations – Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Polio, Typhoid
• Immunization to protect against Seasonal Influenza, Covid-19 or Pneumonia
• Chicken Pox Immunization
• Shingles Vaccination
• RSV Vaccination
• HPV Vaccination
• Vitamin B12
• Birth Control
• Medication for Schizophrenia
Talk with your Super Thrifty pharmacist today about how you can benefit from the additional health-care services they can provide.