Course Description
Introduction to essential clinical, professional, and practice- based skills needed to provide pharmacy care.
Athena Title
Essentials of Pharmacy Pract I
Prerequisite
Doctor of Pharmacy Program
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
List the components that comprise a legal prescription label. • Explain legal and regulatory requirements for and ethical considerations when transferring possession of drug products to the health care consumer. • For commonly prescribed drugs, identify the components of information required in a complete drug order or prescription. • Determine the appropriateness of a drug order or prescription’s dose, dosage form, route of administration, and frequency of administration. • Use effective patient counseling skills when providing information on dispensed products. • Observe legal principles and regulatory requirements in the practice of pharmacy. • Distinguish between the concept of a law and the concept of a regulation. • Describe the types of information recorded in a patient’s chart or profile. • For commonly prescribed drugs, identify accurate information that should appear in a complete drug order or prescription. • List drug products that require inclusion of patient package insert and/or other drug information. • State legal requirements for receiving or transferring prescriptions or drug orders via telephone or facsimile. • Describe ethical principles related to drug dispensing and apply ethical principles to patient care activities. • Describe the general operation of various pharmacy settings. • Identify situations in which legal requirements are either unclear or are in conflict with ethical pharmacy practice. • Use common medical terminology and abbreviations correctly. • Use appropriate resources to identify the indications for a prescribed drug. • Use basic Spanish phrases in the community pharmacy. • Determine the completeness and accuracy of information in a drug order or prescription. • Use a knowledge of sterile technique to prepare sterile dosage forms or delivery systems. • Explain the principles of sterile technique. • Explain the procedure for preparing sterile products. • Integrate ethical principles into one’s professional conduct. • Discuss the ethical and professional principles that govern the practice of pharmacy. • Adhere to established times for classes, laboratories, clerkships, and meetings. • Display professional behavior toward faculty, staff, peers, patients, and other health professionals in the classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. • Modify behavior to interact effectively in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. • Modify behavior to communicate effectively with faculty, staff, peers, patients, and other health professionals. • Demonstrate confidence in actions and communications. • Show regard for persons in authority in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. • Demonstrate dependability to carry out assignments. • Demonstrate punctuality in academic and professional environments. • Maintain a professional appearance when representing the College of Pharmacy. • Comply with federal, state, University, College of Pharmacy, and institutional requirements regarding confidentiality of information. • Produce quality work in academic and professional settings. • Demonstrate self-direction in completing assignments. • Use physical examination techniques to: locate and assess a radial and pedal pulse and measure blood pressure (using automatic and manual devices). • Demonstrate the use of point of care testing (CLIA). • Create appropriate documentation of pharmacy care activities, including charting and SOAP notes. • Describe nutritional products. • Apply principles of patient dietary assessment and make basic nutritional recommendations to support health. • Demonstrate proper techniques for preparing therapeutically effective and pharmaceutically elegant dosage forms. • Identify the components of commonly dispensed dosage forms. • Formulate a systematic approach to answer patient-specific drug information questions using primary, secondary, and tertiary drug information sources. • Exercise skill in basic use of online drug information websites when answering drug information questions.
Topical Outline
Week Topics Delivery 1 & 2 • Course overview and expectations • Professionalism • Career development • Introduction to public health • Overview of government regulation • JCPP patient care/pharmacy care process • Medical terminology: prefix/root/suffix and definitions • Patient counseling requirements didactic 3 Metrology, top 300 medications laboratory 4 Top 300 medications, cultural awareness, metrology, OSHA laboratory, recitation 5 Strengths finder/professional development, aliquots, pharmacy care process, laboratory, recitation 6 Drug information exercises, aliquots, pharmacy care process laboratory, recitation 7 JCPP approach to patient, evidenced-based resources, specific gravity, screenings #1, disease education (cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose), laboratory, recitation 8 Behavior change, disease education, interactive patient counseling, lifestyle management, scope of practice laboratory, recitation 9 Medication-related problems, prescriptions 101 (errors, commission, omission), screening #2 (self and peer assessment) laboratory, recitation 10 Pharmacist in public health, prescriptions 101 (errors, commission, omission) screening #2 (self and peer assessment) laboratory, recitation 11 & 12 Disaster preparedness simulation #1, laboratory 13 & 14 Standardized patient simulations, laboratory 15 Thanksgiving 16 Comprehensive practical exam
Syllabus