Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Practice

This elective advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) in critical care/emergency medicine pharmacy is designed to offer the student the opportunity to apply their knowledge, solidify their patient-care process and skills to provide direct patient-centered care in a critical care and emergency medicine setting. Students will participate in, and take responsibility for, direct patient care activities including: patient assessment to identify and prioritize drug therapy problems, develop patient-specific care plans that address desired patient outcomes, patient monitoring including physical and laboratory assessment, and implementation of follow-up evaluation and documentation, as appropriate. The student will learn to effectively communicate with other healthcare professionals, patients and their caregivers when gathering information, monitoring patients, determining and assessing target outcomes and providing education. Students will closely interact with members of health care team in providing collaborative care, including regular communication about appropriateness of the patient’s specific pharmacotherapeutic agents, dosing regimens, dosage forms, routes of administration, delivery systems, etc. Students are expected to be self-directed, demonstrate insight in identifying and managing their own learning needs and address gaps in their knowledge and skills. The student will complete all activities in a professional manner under the facilitation of a faculty/preceptors. This rotation will take place in a pharmacy specialty area in a critical care pharmacy unit and emergency medicine department where patients are managed using a team-based approach. Team members may include pharmacists, physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare providers. Students will participate in the following types of activities: rounding with a healthcare team, obtaining patient histories, identifying problems requiring therapeutic interventions.