Pharmacists' learning needs in the era of expanding scopes of practice: Evolving practices and changing needs

Schindel, Theresa J.; Yuksel, Nesé; Breault, René R.; Daniels, Jason; Varnhagen, Stanley; Hughes, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.06.013

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“…As a result, graduates who received instruction in documentation in their pharmacy education have had limited opportunities to practice their documentation skills in a manner that builds competence and becomes a natural component of practice. Pharmacists who have been practicing longer have articulated the need for additional training in documentation skills [ 27 ].…”

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Insights from Regulatory Data on Development Needs of Community Pharmacy Professionals

Morris¹,

Arzoomanian²

2020

Pharmacy

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The aim of this study was to use data available to a Canadian health professions regulator (Ontario College of Pharmacists) to identify areas of opportunity where practitioners (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians) could benefit from further development, in order to optimize practice and improve the quality of care. Four de-identified datasets were used to extract themes from areas of jurisprudence (1969 exam records), member practice assessments (2610 records), pharmacy assessments (2024 records) and conduct (640 case records). Outcome measures included performance in examinations and assessments and competency gaps identified in conduct investigations. Thematic analysis of outcomes was done in two stages. First, the four outcomes were derived independently for each dataset. Second, the top five issues were extracted for each dataset. It was hypothesized that common themes in competency gaps across all four datasets would emerge from this top five selection. We found three main common areas of opportunity where practitioners could benefit from further development: patient assessment and safety; documentation; and ethical, legal and professional responsibilities.

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Insights from Regulatory Data on Development Needs of Community Pharmacy Professionals

Morris¹,

Arzoomanian²

2020

Pharmacy

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“…Amanda A Olsen 1 , Lana M Minshew 2 , Kathryn A Morbitzer 2 , Tina P Brock 2,3 and Jacqueline E McLaughlin 2,3…”

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“…1 As a result, health care professionals must adapt and reconsider how their roles and responsibilities fit within these new approaches to care. [2][3][4] In addition to their traditional roles as medication dispensers, pharmacists have assumed more direct patient care roles and are increasingly working more collaboratively with doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. 2,3 Due to increasing responsibilities placed on pharmacists, schools of pharmacy must ensure their curricula align with the evolving profession.…”

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“…[2][3][4] In addition to their traditional roles as medication dispensers, pharmacists have assumed more direct patient care roles and are increasingly working more collaboratively with doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. 2,3 Due to increasing responsibilities placed on pharmacists, schools of pharmacy must ensure their curricula align with the evolving profession. The last major curricular change in pharmacy was around the turn of the century, when programs in North America converted to the entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), programs in Europe normalized the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree, and Australian programs converted to 4-year courses, some incorporating an Honors qualification.…”

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Emerging Innovations and Professional Skills Needed Within Pharmacy Curricula

Olsen

Minshew

Morbitzer

et al. 2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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To ensure students are prepared for the rapidly evolving world of health care, curricula must be aligned with emerging innovations, as well as professional skills likely to influence students’ abilities to be successful. At the 2019 annual meeting of PharmAlliance institutions, we asked experts to identify innovations and professional skills necessary for the future of pharmacy practice. Experts identified a wide range of topics, including personalized and precision medicine, digital health, interprofessional collaboration, clinical decision making, and overcoming complexity and ambiguity. While these findings are useful for informing curriculum content, we must also commit to ensuring our pharmacy curricula are emerging, forward thinking, and effective at preparing students for the challenges in health care.

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“…Over the past few decades, the role of the pharmacist in many countries has evolved from being a compounder and a supplier of medicines, toward a patient-care provider. This involves a range of new responsibilities that includes complex medication management, screening for chronic disease, educating patients, transition of care, drug prescribing, and health promotion activities [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Early involvement of pharmacists in the prescribing process by granting them the right to prescribe can help in optimizing medication use [ 4 ].…”

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Pharmacists’ Prescribing in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study Describing Current Practices and Future Perspectives

Ajabnoor

Cooper

2020

Pharmacy

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Pharmacist prescribing is being increasingly undertaken to better use their skills and reduce the workload of existing prescribers such as doctors, often using formal processes to legitimate these activities. In developing countries like Saudi Arabia, however, pharmacists’ prescribing remains informal with no legislation or formal training and there is a lack of research and understanding into such practices. Therefore, we aimed to describe current pharmacist prescribing practices in Saudi Arabia and explore pharmacists’ views about pharmacists’ prescribing. This is a cross-sectional survey study using an online questionnaire of hospital pharmacists in Saudi Arabia about pharmacists’ prescribing, and associated views about prescribing legislation and barriers to implementing pharmacist prescribing. Over a quarter (28.5%) of pharmacists reported themselves as prescribers, 49% were following a collaborative prescribing model, 18% independent prescribing, and 33% were doing both. Ninety percent of prescribers reported confidence in prescribing the appropriate treatment and 92.3% perceived they will benefit from more prescribing training. Healthcare practice culture and pharmacist’s competency were identified as barriers. There is an overall support for pharmacists’ prescribing in Saudi Arabia among this sample of hospital pharmacists, with limitations in resources and the absence of standardized prescribing training being perceived as key barriers to pharmacists’ prescribing.

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Pharmacists' learning needs in the era of expanding scopes of practice: Evolving practices and changing needs

Cited by 43 publications

References 49 publications

Insights from Regulatory Data on Development Needs of Community Pharmacy Professionals

Insights from Regulatory Data on Development Needs of Community Pharmacy Professionals

Emerging Innovations and Professional Skills Needed Within Pharmacy Curricula

Pharmacists’ Prescribing in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study Describing Current Practices and Future Perspectives

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