Pharmacy Skills III- Assessment and Counseling.

Catalog description

Pharmacy practice skills III will focus on the learning and development of patient care skills necessary for successful implementation and follow up of the Pharmacists Patient Care Process (PPCP). Patient assessment and communication skills will be learned, developed, and applied to patient care scenarios to identify, evaluate, correct, and prevent therapy related problems. Major topics will be barriers to adherence, delivery device technique and evaluation, nutrition and other non-drug therapies, medication history taking, limited physical assessments, conflict resolution, and other patient communication techniques. Prerequisites: PHAR 211 , PHAR 212 , PHAR 213 , PHAR 221 , PHAR 231 , PHAR 232 , and PHAR 241 .