7^th 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