*Note
on course proficiencies*
YEAR 4
SEMESTER 1 - 2 - 3
Community Pharmaceutical Care
PHAR 5670
Course Description:
Advanced clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a community
pharmacy setting.
Cr. 6. (0-18)
Prerequisite:
Fourth year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of
the instructor.
Course Proficiencies:
The student will be able to:
1. Screen an ambulatory care patient record
for laboratory data, immunization status, assessment and therapeutic
plan.
2. Interview a patient to identify target symptoms of a disorder(s)
and to assess previous response to treatment.
3. Obtain a drug history from an ambulatory care patient.
4. Based on patient symptoms, assist a patient in the selection
of over-the-counter products.
5. Develop monitoring parameters to assure positive therapeutic
outcomes.
6. Perform a focused physical exam to assess response to drug
therapy and absence of adverse effects in a patient requesting
a refill of medications.
7. Recommend appropriate interventions when side effects or toxicities
are identified.
8. Use pharmacokinetic principles in designing drug regimens for
ambulatory patients.
9. Integrate pharmaceutical principles through activities, presentations,
monitoring, and discussions.
10. Modify an ambulatory patient’s drug therapy.
11. Identify the symptoms and diagnostic criteria for the most
common disease states, as described by current national guidelines.
12. Council patients on lifestyle behavioral changes that may
impact disease states.
13. Review a patient’s herbal, or other alternative medicine remedies
and, using an evidenced-based approach, council the patient on
the probability of effectiveness of the remedy.
14. Review a patient’s immunization record, identify, and recommend
needed immunizations.
15. Educate patients concerning pharmaceutical care plans and
appropriate use of medications.
16. Instruct a patient on the proper method for instilling eye
drops and applying nasolacrimal occlusion.
17. Instruct a patient with asthma on the proper technique for
using a metered dose inhaler.
18. Instruct a diabetic patient on the use of a glucometer for
blood glucose monitoring.
19. Document patient subjective and objective data, findings,
and drug therapy recommendations in the patient’s medical record,
patient profile, or other patient database.
20. Discuss the value of a multidisciplinary health team in patient
care and how it can be utilized.
21. Provide drug information or therapeutic consultations to other
health care providers and/or pharmacy staff.
