Comprehensive Patient Care Management

Catalog description

This capstone course is designed to strengthen and conclude the didactic pharmacotherapeutic curriculum through application of prior learning. This course will integrate essential core clinical topics and management of various disease states. Emphasis will be placed on applying the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP) to complex patient cases in order to develop rational evidence-based drug therapy, therapeutic monitoring and modification of drug therapy and medication regimens as dictated by changes in the patient’s characteristics, laboratory values and overall medical status. All course activities are designed to develop and improve critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making skills by working through complex patient scenarios mimicking clinical practice experience in the institutional and ambulatory care settings.