PhPr 803C - Ambulatory Pharmacy Practice
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Goals
The purpose of the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice Rotation is to allow students to develop skills and gain experience in various roles in which a pharmacist contributes to patient care in ambulatory care settings.
Objectives
The following summarizes the rotation objectives. Please download the suggested task list for more specific objectives.
1. Health Care Planning and Medication Therapy Management
- Collect, organize, and effectively evaluate patient specific information from various sources.
- Apply disease state knowledge to individual patients to evaluate existing medication therapies.
- Integrate health promotion and disease prevention measures into patient health care plans.
- Recognize social/economic issues that affect drug therapy.
- Communicate with patients and health care providers to make interventions to improve care.
- Document patient interactions, interventions in care according to rotation site procedures.
2. Patient Care
- Educate patients regarding disease states, therapies, and required monitoring and follow-up care.
- Perform monitoring activities to assess efficacy and potential toxicity of drug therapies.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills for interviewing/counseling patients.
- Respond appropriately to drug information inquiries from other health care providers.
3. Disease State/Therapeutic Knowledge
- Demonstrate knowledge of medical conditions commonly encountered in ambulatory care settings. If the rotation site is a specialty clinic, students should demonstrate knowledge of the disease states pertinent to that particular clinic.
- Recognize situations in which therapies usually recommended for a particular condition are not appropriate for an individual patient and evaluate alternatives.
- Identify areas in disease state management in which pharmacists offer solutions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current immunization practices/recommendations.