Development and implementation of a long-term care-based introductory pharmacy practice experience course

Gavaza, Paul; Adkins, Donna; Hodges, Ethan; Mayhew, Susan; Breese, Charles R.

doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2014.02.020

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“…Greater integration of skills and competencies required to be an aged care pharmacist into pharmacy university curriculum may be necessary as part of workforce planning, and to reduce the onus on individual pharmacists to participate in extensive postgraduate training. In the United States, an experiential and didactic learning experience for second-year pharmacy students, which included weekly visits to a residential aged care facility, enhanced student geriatric pharmacy knowledge [ 20 ]. In the UK’s MOCH, the on-site aged care pharmacists participated in an 18-month training pathway (including pharmacist prescribing training) [ 21 ].…”

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Pharmacists working in residential aged care: a survey of pharmacist interest and perceived preparedness

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Hawthorne,

Kouladjian O’Donnell

et al. 2024

Int J Clin Pharm

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Background Pharmacists involvement in residential aged care facilities has traditionally been limited to that of an external contractor providing medication reviews, or medication supply. Aim To explore Australian pharmacists’ interest and perceived preparedness to work as on-site pharmacists in residential aged care. Method National cross-sectional anonymous online survey open for two weeks (September 17th to October 1st 2022) consisting of Likert-type, multiple choice and multiple selection questions. Australian pharmacists were recruited using a broad advertising strategy which included social and traditional media platforms, and snowball sampling. Data were collected on pharmacist self-reported interest and perceived preparedness to work as on-site aged care pharmacists in residential aged care. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results Responses were received from 720 participants, 643 were eligible. Most participants were female (n = 466, 73%) and mean (SD) age was 43.5 (SD 12.5) years. Over half the participants were interested or extremely interested in working as an on-site aged care pharmacist (56%, n = 360), and agreed or strongly agreed (n = 475, 76%) that they felt prepared to work as an on-site aged care pharmacist. Most pharmacists felt prepared to engage in a variety of roles within the facilities (> 73% for each role), including resident and system level roles, and the majority agreed they felt prepared to engage with stakeholders, including general practitioners (93%) and medical specialists (86%). Conclusion Pharmacists reported they are interested and feel prepared to work as on-site aged care pharmacists. These findings will inform the roll-out of this new model of care to enhance multidisciplinary collaboration in residential aged care. Graphical Abstract

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