7th pharmaceutical care Conference Objectives Towards Excellence in pharmacy Practice
Key Objectives:
- Construct a pharmacy practice model that focuses on optimizing patient care outcomes and safety
- Identify essential leadership knowledge, skills, and attributes to advance practice
- Describe strategic leadership imperatives in the current environment
- Outline principles and basic competencies in healthcare leadership
- Describe medication use management in the health care delivery value equation and current challenges
- Describe strategies to implement evidence based medicine practice, prospective clinical monitoring and standardized safety practices
- Describe role of team work to achieve accountability and delivery of targeted patient care outcomes
- Define antimicrobial stewardship program(ASP)
- Discuss the impact of antimicrobial resistance on clinical and economic outcomes in various patient populations
- Outline core strategies essential for the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in the continuum of care
- Describe the role of team work and engagement of stakeholders for the success of ASPs
- Explain how pharmacists are helping to combat antimicrobial resistance
- Introduce Continuing professional development in pharmacy profession
- Identify how practitioners’ competencies can be assessed and results applied to the professional development process
- Describe the concept and suggest the forms of the pharmacist’s learning portfolio
- Connect educational outcomes with competency development using the principle of Commitment to Change
- Design a tailored education plan for competency development
- Understand the importance of therapeutic goals and how to achieve the goals in an effective and safety way
- Apply communication, collaboration and documentation in the patient care process
- Recognize the level of influence and importance of the stakeholders in pharmacy profession in Oman
- Plan the process of change and follow up on check points in the change process
- Define management in health care organization.
- Understand ethics in the workplace.
- To address the role of self-medication in healthcare system.
- To discuss the requirements for classifying OTC drugs.
- To highlight the process for switching RX to OTC.
- Describe how to establish a new antimicrobial stewardship program
- Identify key metrics to track the effectiveness of an antimicrobial stewardship program
- Identify new trends in implementing antimicrobial stewardship
- To consider the on-going evolution of the role of the antimicrobial pharmacist in the plan, do, study, act approach to antimicrobial management