Course Description
Complex patient cases in which students complete a work-up of a patient; identify and prioritize medication-related problems; and design a regimen, including monitoring parameters, to resolve medication-related problems.
Athena Title
Integrated Patient Cases
Prerequisite
PHRM 5880 and PHRM 5160
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Using patient cases, students will be able to: 1. Apply the steps in the Patient Care Process (collect, assess, plan, monitor, and evaluate) to patient cases. 2. Assess and prioritize medication-related problems based on level of acuity. 3. Apply practice guidelines, primary literature, and other drug information resources, as appropriate, to patient cases. 4. Consider additional factors, such as socioeconomic, ethical, and lifestyle (including quality of life and health or functional goals) in creating patient-centered care plans. 5. Verbally communicate drug therapy assessments and plans.
Topical Outline
This is a capstone course consisting of patient cases with a goal of re-enforcing student ability to work up any type of patient (hospitalized, ambulatory, acute, and chronic diseases), look up information necessary for the patient case, prioritize problems, and develop drug therapy plans. Students will not know the primary problems in the patient cases beforehand. Priority problems for the patient cases will include: 1. Cardiovascular risk reduction 2. Diabetes mellitus inpatient and outpatient 3. Oncology 4. Infectious diseases 5. Psychiatry 6. Internal medicine (e.g., pneumonia, thrombosis) 7. Neurology 8. Pediatrics 9. Anticoagulation, infectious diseases 10. Critical care - sepsis 11. Critical care oncology
Syllabus