Nursing staff are the primary providers of medication education to patients including information about drug-drug and drug-food interactions. Physicians, pharmacists, dietitians and other health care providers also participate in this process.
The teaching occurs during the course of a patient's hospitalization or during ambulatory visits. Approved resources are used to aid the teaching process. The resources may be electronic or paper monographs.

A process for preventing drug-nutrient interactions with specific high-risk categories of medications is in place at each Center.
For example: The dietitian will instruct the patient on any specific diet that should be implemented for a drug therapy, for example MAO inhibitors - for which patients should be prescribed a tyramine restricted diet.

Policies concerning medication counseling can be found in the Nutrition Manual, Pharmacy Manual and the Patient and Family Education Handbook