The
Center for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Education [CAPE] 2004 Educational
Outcomes
1. PHARMACEUTICAL CARE Provide pharmaceutical care in cooperation with
patients,
prescribers, and other members of an interprofessional health care
team
based upon sound therapeutic principles and evidence-based data, taking
into
account relevant legal, ethical, social, economic, and professional issues,
emerging
technologies, and evolving biomedical, sociobehavioral, and clinical
sciences
that may impact therapeutic outcomes.
a. Provide patient-centered care.
i. Design, implement, monitor, evaluate,
and adjust pharmaceutical
care
plans that are patient-specific and evidence-based.
ii. Communicate and collaborate with
prescribers, patients, care
givers,
and other involved health care providers to engender a team
approach
to patient care.
iii. Retrieve, analyze, and interpret the
professional, lay, and scientific
literature
to provide drug information to patients, their families, and
other
involved health care providers.
iv. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
v. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may impact patient-specific
therapeutic
outcomes.
b. Provide population-based care.
i. Develop and implement
population-specific, evidence-based
disease
management programs and protocols based upon analysis
of
epidemiologic and pharmacoeconomic data, medication use
criteria,
medication use review, and risk reduction strategies.
ii. Communicate and collaborate with
prescribers, population
members,
care givers, and other involved health care providers to
engender
a team approach to patient care.
iii. Retrieve, analyze, and interpret the
professional, lay, and scientific
literature
to provide drug information to other health care providers
and to
the public.
iv. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
v. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may impact
population-based, therapeutic outcomes.
2. SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Manage and use resources of the health care
system,
in cooperation with patients, prescribers, other health care providers,
and
administrative and supportive personnel, to promote health; to provide,
assess,
and coordinate safe, accurate, and time-sensitive medication distribution;
and to
improve therapeutic outcomes of medication use.
a. Manage human, physical, medical,
informational, and technological
resources.
i. Apply relevant legal, ethical, social,
economic, and professional
principles/issues
to assure efficient, cost-effective utilization of
human,
physical, medical, informational, and technological
resources
in the provision of patient care.
ii. Communicate and collaborate with
patients, prescribers, other
health
care providers, and administrative and supportive personnel
to
engender a team approach to assure efficient, cost-effective
utilization
of human, physical, medical, informational, and
technological
resources in the provision of patient care.
iii. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
iv. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may impact
management
of human, physical, medical, informational, and
technological
resources in the provision of patient care.
b. Manage medication use systems.
i. Apply patient- and population-specific
data, quality assurance
strategies,
and research processes to assure that medication use
systems
minimize drug misadventuring and optimize patient
outcomes.
ii. Apply patient- and
population-specific data, quality assurance
strategies,
and research processes to develop drug use and health
policy,
and to design pharmacy benefits.
iii. Communicate and collaborate with
prescribers, patients,
caregivers,
other involved health care providers and administrative
and
supportive personnel to identify and resolve medication use
problems.
iv. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
v. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may impact
medication
use systems, to develop use and health policy, and to
design pharmacy benefits.
3. PUBLIC HEALTH Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease
prevention
in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and
other
members of an interprofessional team of health care providers.
a. Assure the availability of effective,
quality health and disease prevention
services.
i Apply population-specific data,
quality assurance strategies, and
research
processes to develop identify and resolve public health
problems.
ii. Communicate and collaborate with
prescribers, policy makers,
members
of the community and other involved health care
providers
and administrative and supportive personnel to identify
and
resolve public health problems.
iii. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
iv. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may affect the
efficacy
or quality of disease prevention services to amend existing
or
develop additional services.
b. Develop public health policy.
i. Apply population-specific data, quality
assurance strategies, and
research
processes to develop public health policy.
ii. Communicate and collaborate with
prescribers, policy makers,
members
of the community and other involved health care
providers
and administrative and supportive personnel to develop
public
policy.
iii. Carry out duties in accordance with
legal, ethical, social, economic,
and
professional guidelines.
iv. Maintain professional competence by
identifying and analyzing
emerging
issues, products, and services that may affect public
health
policy, to amend existing or develop additional policies.