*Note
on course proficiencies*
YEAR 4
SEMESTER 1 - 2 - 3
Home Care Pharmacy
PHAR 5688
Course Description:
Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a home care
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. Obtain appropriate information from the
patient, care givers, laboratory, physician, other health care
team members to assess drug therapy appropriateness for a specific
patient.
2. Compound products for a home care patient, using aseptic techniques.
3. Recognize and prevent incompatibilities in intravenous therapy
in a home care patient.
4. Monitor drug therapy for achievable therapeutic outcomes in
a home care patient.
5. Identify adverse reactions to drug therapy administered in
the home.
6. Provide a pharmacokinetics consult to recommend initial dosage
for a home care patient.
7. Interpret serum drug concentrations to determine dosage adjustments
for a home care patient.
8. Anticipate and prevent potential medication problems in a home
care patient.
9. Discuss pharmacy issues for home care patients related to:
a. Compliance
b. Patient education
c. Cost-effectiveness
d. Other prescription and non-prescription drug use
e. Administration of prescribed therapy
f. Infections resulting from therapy
g. Extravasation of intravenous fluid
10. Recognize and discuss the value of a multidisciplinary health
team in providing home care.
11. Describe the roles of other health care professionals in providing
home care.
12. Participate actively and effectively in a multidisciplinary
health team in a home care setting.
13. Develop pharmaceutical care plans for a patient receiving
therapy for greater than three days.
14. Provide effective consultation regarding a home care patient’s
drug therapy.
15. Instruct a patient in the appropriately use of infusion devices
used in the home care patient.
16. Teach patients to recognize adverse reactions and complications
of home care therapy.
17. Recommend corrections for complications in a home care patient,
related to:
a. Osteomyelitis
b. Nutritional deficiencies
c. CHF
d. Total parenteral nutrition
e. Metastatic diseases
f. Pain management
g. AIDS
h. Chronic diseases
18. Discuss and apply the applicable standards for Home Care set
forth by the Joint Commission
on Accreditation oh Home Care Organizations.
19. In writing, evaluate drug therapy for a common disease process
encountered in home care.
