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Educational
Competencies

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Global Educational
Competencies
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Think critically and
solve complex problems.
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Communicate effectively
verbally and in writing.
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Demonstrate interpersonal
skills and a professional demeanor.
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Make rational, legal,
ethical and responsible decisions.
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Demonstrate sensitivity
and tolerance of the cultural, societal and economic diversity in
patients.
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Assume
responsibility for optimizing patient outcomes related to medication
therapy.
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Identify and
analyze emerging issues, products and services, in order to maintain
professional competency. Self-assess learning needs to
design, implement, and evaluate strategies to promote intellectual
growth and continued professional development.
Pharmacy Professional
Educational Competencies
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Design, implement,
monitor, evaluate, and adjust evidence based pharmacy care plans
that are patient specific; address health literacy, cultural
diversity, behavioral and psychosocial issues.
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Integrate and apply evidence-based knowledge of the biomedical,
pharmaceutical and clinical sciences.
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Collect information
to prevent, identify and solve drug related problems.
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Retrieve, analyze,
and interpret the professional, lay, and scientific literature
to provide drug information and counseling to patients, their
families or care givers, and other involved health care
providers
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Develop a patient centered pharmacy care plan.
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Monitor patients to determine if the therapy is appropriate,
effective and safe.
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Effectively
communicate information to patients, caregivers and other health
professionals regarding rational drug therapy, wellness and
health promotion.
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Document interventions and outcomes in
writing.
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Provide initial
emergency care by becoming certified in first-aid and CPR.
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Identify, prevent,
manage and document adverse outcomes of medication therapy.
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Manage a successful patient-centered practice (including
establishing, marketing, and being compensated for medication
therapy management and patient care services rendered).
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Provide population-based care, through the ability to 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.
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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.
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Manage
medication use systems, through the ability to apply patient- and
population-specific data, quality improvement strategies, medication
safety and error reduction programs, and research processes
to minimize drug misadventures and optimize patient outcomes; to
participate in the development of medication use criteria and
health policy; and help design pharmacy benefits.
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Evaluate drug orders or prescriptions.
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Accurately and safely compound and dispense drugs
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Perform
pharmaceutical calculations.
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Insure that medications are properly administered.
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Demonstrate expertise in informatics
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Promote health
improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with
patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of
an inter-professional team of health care providers.
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