PHPR 6141 - Pharmacy Practice Skills Lab IV

1 Credit(s)

This is the fourth in a sequence of courses in which students will apply content from the Integrated Pharmacotherapy Sequence and develop important, necessary skills to become a patient-centered care giver and medication use manager. This course will emphasize principles of effective pharmacist-provider written communication and introduce and emphasize principles of oral pharmacist-provider communication. Students will build on their introductory skills in prescription processing/dispensing, be introduced to patient assessment and patient education on disease state management, medication administration and practice communicating with providers in both written and oral communication activities. Students will build on their previously introduced skills of sterile compounding and ultimately be assessed on their ability. Students will also practice and be assessed on their ability to process inpatient prescription orders. Students will be expected to apply previous knowledge related to kinetics to clinical scenarios involving dosing and monitoring of antimicrobials.

Prerequisite(s): PHPR 5132 with a C- or better.
Corequisite(s): PHAR 6191, PHAR 6261, and PHAR 6281.