General practitioners’ perceptions of pharmacists’ new services in New Zealand

Hatah, Ernieda; Braund, Rhiannon; Duffull, Stephen B.; Tordoff, June

doi:10.1007/s11096-012-9617-3

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“…Prescribing practices that range from prescribing within dependant or collaborative practice agreements to independent prescribing authority have been granted to pharmacists in the UK, New Zealand and in parts of the US and Canada. [91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98] These two examples of expanded scope of pharmacy practice would require additional professional training to ensure pharmacist competency in these areas. However, the clinCAT tool already used by many Australian hospital pharmacy departments to regularly assess their pharmacists' professional competency, provides an excellent foundation upon which these advanced practices could be built.…”

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Hospital pharmacists' perceptions of medication counseling: A focus group study

Chevalier

Watson

Barras

et al. 2016

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

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BackgroundMedication counselling sessions are key times for a pharmacist to speak to patients about their medications and the changes made to their therapies during their hospital stay. ObjectivesTo explore hospital pharmacists' perceptions of their roles and goals in patient medication counselling, and perceived barriers and facilitators to achieving their goals. MethodsHospital pharmacist focus groups were held in two tertiary referral hospitals. Eligible pharmacists had provided medication counselling within the previous six months in inpatient and/or outpatient settings. Interested pharmacists attended a focus group designed to elicit their opinions and perceptions of patient medication counselling. Focus groups were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Inductive thematic analysis was applied to the data to identify initial patterns (codes) which were then organized into common overarching themes using NVivo ® software. The codes were reviewed for reliability by pharmacists independent of the focus groups. ResultsSix, one-hour focus groups were conducted with a total of 24 pharmacists participating. Saturation of information was determined after four focus groups. Greater than 80% consensus was achieved for reliability of the identified codes. A number of themes emerged from these codes around the goals, roles, and the barriers and facilitators to meeting these goals. Pharmacists' patient-centred goals in medication counselling were to build rapport, to empower patients and to improve patients' experience, health and safety. These goals would be accomplished through specific roles such as being an assessor, educator and problem-solver. Pharmacists frequently cited time pressures caused by systemic (hospital), and pharmacy specific processes as key challenges to achieving their goals. Factors that enabled pharmacists to meet their goals were those related to effective interprofessional collaboration and the quality of professional practice (such as training, expanded roles and advanced planning for discharge). ConclusionsHospital pharmacists emphasised patient-centred goals in medication counselling and outlined the challenges to meet those goals. The findings from this study will be used to develop strategies for effective communication and inform pharmacy practice changes to improve patient care. Key Words Hospital pharmacist Focus group Goal Role Communication M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTPage 2 of 27 IntroductionDischarge from hospital to community or to other healthcare facilities marks an important transition in care for patients. Discharge and other transitions such as admission to hospital or transfers within a hospital have been identified as particular times when patients may be at risk of experiencing medication errors and adverse events. 1-3 Medication counselling opportunities are key times for pharmacists to speak to patients about their medications and the changes made to their therapies during their hospital stay. 2,[4][5][6][7] Failure by a hospital phar...

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Hospital pharmacists' perceptions of medication counseling: A focus group study

Chevalier

Watson

Barras

et al. 2016

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

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“…Lack of resources and lack of motivation are potential reasons, but these are not unique to pharmacy. 34 One explanation is that pharmacy education research focuses on developing a knowledge base, [35][36][37][38] providing services, 39,40 and mastering skills 41,42 rather than on developing reflective information exchange. Also, reflective activities in pharmacy education may be limited because of a lack of available teaching resources.…”

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Reflective Practice and Its Implications for Pharmacy Education

Tsingos

Bosnic‐Anticevich

Smith

2014

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Pharmacy students require critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to integrate theory learned in the classroom with the complexities of practice, yet many pharmacy students fall short of acquiring these skills.1-2 Reflective practice activities encourage learning from the student's own experiences and those of others, and offer a possible solution for the integration of knowledge-based curricula with the ambiguities of practice, as well as enhance communication and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team. Although reflective practices have been embraced elsewhere in health professions education, their strengths and shortcomings need to be considered when implementing such practices into pharmacy curricula. This review provides an overview of the evolution of theories related to reflective practice, critically examines the use of reflective tools (such as portfolios and blogs), and discusses the implications of implementing reflective practices in pharmacy education.

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“…While other clinical providers have expressed support for a collaborative relationship with pharmacists, more effort is needed to define the roles of pharmacists as a provider of clinical services, which may then lead to greater acceptance by other providers as a member of the clinical team [27][28][29][30][31]. Thus, one of the topics in the certificate program is engagement with local practitioners to discuss the delivery of PGx testing prior to implementation.…”

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