Pharmacy Skills II-Outpatient Care.

Catalog description

Pharmacy practice skills course will build on previous and current course knowledge and content and encompass the application to practice like activities and simulations. The skills based course experiences relate to effective patient counseling for the advanced dispensing of most commonly prescribed, select non-prescription medications including pharmacist furnishing of products such as Naloxone and Plan B, etc. Students will learn and practice the skills involved in over-the-counter (OTC) therapeutics, patient counseling and motivational interviewing. Students will learn how to gather subjective patent data using patient interviewing and history gathering techniques and how to collect objective patient data. Students will participate in simulated patient scenarios and/or cases using the Pharmacist Patient Care Process (PPCP) requiring students to navigate electronic health records (EHRs) to identify drug related therapy problems and develop drug therapy plans. Implementation, documentation, and communication of drug therapy plans will be developed using standardized formats such as SOAP (subjective objective assessment plan) notes and SBAR (situation background assessment recommendation) model. Prerequisites: PHAR 121 and PHAR 131 .