PHRD-702: Advanced Health Systems Pharmacy Practice

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE): Students must successfully complete all didactic coursework and IPPE prior to participation in APPE. This rotation is a structured, full-time, 5-week pharmacy practice experience in health-system pharmacy. It is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop understanding and competence within all aspects of health-system pharmacy. The students will accomplish this through participation in a hospital pharmacy department which provides a variety of services that may include, but not limited to, medication reconciliation, therapeutic pathways, antibiotic surveillance, patient counseling, pharmacokinetic monitoring, parenteral nutrition consults, and interdisciplinary education sessions. The student will also gain experience in managing the procurement, ordering, dispensing, monitoring, and administration of medication products. Students will learn administrative skills through activities such as management of technical staff and supportive personnel, compliance with relevant laws and standards, financial analysis, and health-system policy and procedures. In addition, students are encouraged to broaden their health-system policy and procedures. In addition, students are encouraged to broaden their existing competencies and incorporate their professional and personal goals into this rotation. [ 5 credits ]