Pharmacotherapy

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What exactly is covered/involved in a pharmacotherapy course??
Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my question 😀

 

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What exactly is covered/involved in a pharmacotherapy course??
Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my question 😀

Here are the CAPE outcomes


CAPE OUTCOMES

Professional Practice-Based Outcomes

I. Provide Pharmaceutical Care
A.3. Identify the patient?s primary complaint(s) and reason(s) for seeking medical care.
B.1. Assess patient therapeutic self-management.
B.1.a. Review patient profiles or medication administration records to determine the adequacy of patient therapeutic self-management.
B.1.b. Employ clinical assessment skills to determine the adequacy of patient therapeutic self-management.
B.1.c. Interview the patient/caregiver to help determine the adequacy of patient therapeutic self-management.
B.2. Optimize patient therapeutic self-management.
B.2.a. Develop a plan to influence patients to effectively manage their therapy and reinforce appropriate behaviors.
B.2.b. Communicate an analysis of patient therapeutic self-management problems to the patient?s physician or other relevant health care providers.
B.2.c. Communicate alternative dosage strategies to the prescriber to help resolve specific patient therapeutic self-management problems.
B.3. Monitor the safety and efficacy of therapeutic plans.
B.3.c. Communicate alternative therapeutic strategies to the prescriber to correct or prevent drug-related problems.
B.3.d. Recommend revisions of therapeutic plans based upon changes in patient status.
C.4. Evaluate information obtained from the patient?s history and physical assessment
D. Collaborate with physicians, other health care professionals, patients, and/or their caregivers to formulate a pharmaceutical care plan.
D.2. Recommend appropriate drug therapy.
D.3. Make referrals to other health care agencies or professionals where indicated.
D.4. Select appropriate medical goods and devices for the patient.

D.4.a. Assess the patient's medical and/or pharmaceutical needs.
D.4.b. Assess the ability of the patient or caregiver to cope with or employ the necessary medical goods or devices.
D.4.c. Determine which of the available items in the market place meets the patient's or caregiver's needs.
D.5. Integrate basic knowledge as needed to design, implement, and evaluate patient-specific pharmacotherapeutic regimens to prevent or resolve medication-related problems or to respond to information requests.
D.5.b. Apply pharmacologic approaches to the management of specific diseases.
D.5.c. Relate therapeutic principles to medication-related problems experienced by patients.
D.5.i. Relate the chemical and/or biochemical structure of drugs to their therapeutic action.
E.4. Provide counseling to patients and/or caregivers relative to proper therapeutic self-management.
E.4.a. Use appropriate sources of patient education information to review indications, adverse effects, dosage, storage, and administration techniques.
E.4.b. Use effective written, visual, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills when providing medication self-management counseling to patients and/or caregivers.
E.4.c. Demonstrate proper administration technique for a given drug delivery system.
E.4.d. Explain any action that should be taken in the event of a missed dose.
E.4.e. Advise patients on how to avoid potential interactions with other therapies.
E.4.f. Explain signs and symptoms associated with the common and/or severe adverse reactions to a therapy.
E.4.g. Explain the significance and frequency of adverse drug reactions and interactions associated with a given therapy.
E.4.h. Encourage patients/caregivers to contact the pharmacist for further information or advice regarding therapy.
E.5. Provide counseling relative to the proper use of medical goods and devices.
E.5.a. Identify manual, audiovisual, and/or computerized sources of patient education information on medical devices and goods appropriate to the specific patient's or caregiver's needs.
E.5.b. Demonstrate the proper use of the medical goods and devices to help ensure that the patient or caregiver can effectively implement the use of the medical goods and devices.
E.5.c. Ensure that equipment specific requirements for maintenance, testing, etc., are effectively communicated to the patient or caregiver.
II. Manage the Practice
B.2. Select high quality drug products for patients.
B.2.a. Apply relevant regulations to product selection from among multi-source drug products.
B.2.b. Use appropriate references for the evaluation of drug product quality.
B.2.d. Communicate an evaluation of drug product quality to the patient and/or other health care professionals.
B.5. Determine the reliability of the manufacturer.
B.5.a. Evaluate the quality control record of manufacturers.
B.5.b. Consider other factors that are indicative of a manufacturer's attention to quality and address their potential impact on the manufacturer's ability to replicate the product and ensure reliability.
B.6.a. Evaluate pricing information, including relevant pricing structures for products under consideration.
B.6.b. Evaluate characteristics of the product(s) under consideration that may impact cost and/or therapeutic outcome.
B.6.c. Determine the availability of pharmaceutical alternatives.
B.6.d. Determine the availability of generic counterparts to brand
name products.

V. Provide Drug Information and Education

B.1. Identify the educational needs and background of the intended audience.
B.2. Choose appropriate media to communicate effectively.
B.5. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication tailored to the individual needs of the audience and type of setting.

General Ability-Based Outcomes

I. Thinking
A. Identify, retrieve, understand, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information needed to make informed, rational, and ethical decisions.
A.2. Analyze information within interdisciplinary frameworks.
A.4. Evaluate conclusions and solutions according to appropriate criteria, and revise as necessary.
B. Solve complex problems that require an integration of one?s ideas and values within a context of scientific, social, cultural, legal, clinical, and ethical issues.
B.2. Prioritize problems based on identifiable criteria and standards.
B.3. Apply systematic and intuitive problem-solving strategies.
B.4. Articulate and implement a defensible solution.
C. Display habits, attitudes, and values associated with mature clinical thinking.
C.3. Display inquisitiveness and commitment to the pursuit of truth.
II. Communication
A. Read and listen effectively.
A.3. Interpret ideas and feelings in discursive and aesthetic modes
of communication
B.1 Speak and write clearly, using logical patterns of organization.
B.2 Communicate persuasively by establishing trustworthiness, incorporating appropriate use of emotion, and providing sufficient logical arguments and evidence.
B.3. Adapt topics, content, style, tone, and arguments to the beliefs, attitudes, values, and backgrounds of the audience.
B.5. Communicate effectively through a variety of media and strategies.



III. Valuing and Ethical Decision Making

A. Interpret decision making within a context of personal and professional values.
A.3. Respect the values of others within decision making.
A.4. Integrate personal and professional values into decision making.
B. Make and defend rational, ethical decisions.
B.1. Resolve ethical dilemmas through a systematic decision-making process based on clearly articulated ethical theories and principles.


VI. Social Interaction
A. Evaluate different types of interpersonal behaviors and their roles in effective social interactions.
B. Demonstrate interaction behaviors that are appropriate for a particular interpersonal situation.
C. Evaluate the process and outcomes of interpersonal interactions and modify as appropriate.