PHAR 618 Institutional Pharmacy Practice

The course introduces administrative, clinical, and distributive functions of a pharmacist in an institutional setting. Pharmacist’s role in integrating clinical monitoring of drug therapy with distributive functions, role of organizations such as Joint Commission and regulatory agencies such as State Board of Pharmacy in assuring high quality of care, and function of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee will be reviewed. Concepts of patient medication safety including interprofessional responsibilities for medication safety and approaches to the management and prevention of medication errors as well as reporting of these errors will be discussed. Students will also be introduced to management and leadership concepts as well as IT infrastructure impacting practice of Pharmacy (e.g. Electronic Medical Record—EMR, Computerized Prescriber Order Entry—CPOE, automated dispensing systems).