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.