Pharmacy Administration: Pharmacy Systems 2

Catalog description

This 2-unit course with accompanied labs is taught in two blocks that will familiarize the pharmacy student with the overall health care environment within which the practice of pharmacy takes place. This overview includes the social, governmental, cultural, ethical, legal, and health care structures that impact upon patients, their families, pharmacists, and their colleagues. The course imparts the importance of understanding those various influences that determine current and future professional life. Students will be encouraged to expand critical thinking skills, leadership abilities, and communication skills that will support professional and personal success. The course will introduce complex areas of health care delivery from public policy perspectives . Lectures and classroom discussion will provide interdisciplinary approaches to difficult political, social, and economic issues that confront health practitioners and the public. The focus of this course will be on special issues that impact on some, but not all, identifiable health care population, federal and state-run health prescription health benefit plans and the administration and regulation of such. In addition, issues of medication safety, regulatory compliance, evidence -based practice, quality control improvement and good financial stewardship to improve drug therapy outcomes. The law portion will focus on state and federal regulations governing Controlled Substances, Prescribing, Dispensing, non -Rx drug, and Drug Disposal.