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Community Care Pharmacy
Practice Residency - Objectives
Residency Purpose Statement
The goal of The University of Iowa Community Care Pharmacy Practice
Residency is to develop necessary skills within the resident
pharmacist to: 1) apply advanced practice skills to provide
patient care in the community pharmacy setting; 2) develop,
implement and/or sustain pharmaceutical care services;
3) appreciate, participate in, and develop strategies to facilitate
the process of practice change.
Core Program Objectives:
- Maintain confidentiality of patient and proprietary
business information.
- Maximize work efficiency through the use of
technology and information systems.
- Manage time effectively to fulfill practice
responsibilities.
- Communicate clearly when speaking or writing.
- Deliver effective education and training programs.
- Solve practice problems efficiently.
- Design, execute, and report investigations
of community pharmacy-related practice issues.
- Establish a collaborative working relationship
with health care providers in the community.
- Design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specific
therapy commensurate with the health care needs of the patient
and the scope of responsibilities of the community pharmacist.
- Appropriately document patient care activities.
- Prepare and dispense medications using appropriate
techniques.
- Deliver to the community, educational programs
that center on health/wellness promotion and disease prevention.
- Participate in the community pharmacy's quality
improvement approach to preventing medication related problems
and in the identification, assessment, and management of
those that occur.
- Provide concise, applicable, and timely responses
to requests for drug information from health care providers
and patients.
- Participate in the identification of need,
development, implementation and assessment of treatment guidelines
and/or protocols related to patient care.
- Provide effective educational programs to
health care professionals.
- Contribute to the development, implementation
and operationalization of an innovative product or service
(e.g., disease state management, extemporaneous compounding,
home infusion, consulting) or to the enhancement of an existing
product or service.
- Participate in the marketing activities of
a community pharmacy.
- Design strategies for determining the value
of, and securing compensation for, patient care services.
Understand the principles of facilities and workflow design
that support the delivery of patient care in the community
pharmacy.
- Serve as a role model and teacher for pharmacy
students.
- Participate in the development, implementation
or evaluation of selected community pharmacy policies and
procedures.
- Participate in the community pharmacy's quality
assurance program.
- Participate in the evaluation of a current
pharmacy service or program to determine if it meets the
stated goals.
- Use knowledge of an organization’s political
and decision-making structure to influence accomplishing
a practice goal.
- Contribute to the achievement of pharmacy
goals through effectively participating in or leading committees
and informal work groups.
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