Pharmaceutical Care Pathway

Goals

This pathway is designed to offer students experiential patient care opportunities in a variety of practice settings, including hospitals, ambulatory clinics, poison centers, long term care facilities, drug and poison information centers, and home care and community pharmacies. Students will use their clinical knowledge and skills to manage patients with chronic illnesses, collaborate with other health care providers to provide cost-effective care, provide consultations on drug-related issues, educate patients and family members on the correct way to administer medications, and actively participate on the health care team. Students completing this pathway will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities compatible with working in various traditional and non-traditional practice settings, academia, managed care organizations, or research.

Competencies

Graduates of this pathway will have the ability to:

• Design and evaluate therapeutic regimens to optimize drug use.
• Design and implement strategies that influence prescriber and patient behavior to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Apply pharmacokinetic and pharmacologic parameters to prevent, manage, or resolve drug-related problems.
• Acquire and apply patient-specific clinical and laboratory data to support therapeutic decisions.
• Teach appropriate drug use, the medication use process, self care, and principles of preventative health to people or groups from diverse backgrounds and cultures and other health professionals.
• Document and evaluate professional services and interventions.
• Understand and participate in ADR reporting, management of quality control, and drug security systems.
• Document, evaluate, and manage adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Apply pharmacoeconomic and formulary management principles to achieve cost effective outcomes for patients of institutions or health-systems.
• Participate in the management of drug distribution systems, human resources, and information systems.
• Conduct structured and rigorous evaluations of the health care literature.
• Provide drug information to diverse audiences.
• Analyze and interpret financial documents to support management decisions.
• Provide first care, triage patients as appropriate, and collaborate with other health care professionals to share responsibility for continuity of care and effective patient outcomes.
• Identify gaps in health care delivery or the medication use process and design, implement, and evaluate strategies to resolve (project).

Related Info

Intern Licenses for the California State Board Pharmacy

More Pathway Topics

• Overview
• Course Descriptions
• Requirements
• Sample Schedule