Applied Patient Care VI

Catalog description

Applied Patient Care VI is the last of six integrated patient care skill development courses in the School of Pharmacy curriculum. It is a patient‐centered course that uses simulated patient scenarios and case studies to build students’ foundational skills in drug information retrieval, patient interviewing, patient education, and critical thinking in the context of pharmacy’s multiple disciplines. The first five courses in this series focused on the specific direct patient care skills of gathering a medication list, providing patient education, conducting a comprehensive interview of a new patient, providing a verbal care plan to a patient, patient follow‐up, clinical documentation, and provider communication with much of the therapeutic content coming from Pharmacotherapy I‐IV. Applied Patient Care VI continues to build on these skills while incorporating skills from the concurrent Pharmacotherapy V course. It will also continue to develop students’ skills in drug information, cultural competence, and health literacy while integrating with the didactic curriculum. In addition, students will have the opportunity to continue to build skills in leading change within pharmacy and becoming servant leaders. (Includes patient care skills teaching laboratory.) Prerequisites: (PHAR 570 or 7750 ).