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The Pharmaceutical Care Learning Center is a simulated
Institutional/Ambulatory Pharmacy practice environment that will
enable student to develop the following professional
competencies:
- Evaluate drug orders or prescriptions accurately
and safely compound drugs in appropriate dosage forms, and
package and dispense dosage forms.
- Manage systems for storage, preparation, and
dispensing of medications, and supervise technical personnel who
may be involved in such processes.
- Apply computer skills and technological
advancements to practice.
- Communicate with health care professionals and
patients regarding rational drug therapy, wellness, and health
promotion.
- Design implement, monitor, evaluate, and modify
or recommend modifications in drug therapy to ensure effective,
safe, and economical patient care.
- Identify, assess, and solve medication-related
problems; and provide a clinical judgment as to the continuing
effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and intended
therapeutic outcomes.
- Evaluate patients and order medications and/or
laboratory tests in accordance with established standards of
practice.
- Evaluate patient problems and triage patients to
other health professionals as appropriate.
- Monitor and counsel patients regarding the
purposes, uses, and effects of their medications and related
therapy.
- Understand relevant diet, nutrition, and
non-drug therapies.
- Recommend, counsel, and monitor patient use of
nonprescription/herbal drugs.
- Retrieve, evaluate, and manage professional
information and literature.
- Use clinical data to optimize therapeutic drug
regiments.
- Evaluate and document interventions and
pharmaceutical care outcomes.
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