Goals

Specific goal statements adapted from ASHP RLS

Practice Foundation Skills

  • Goal S1: Take personal responsibility for attaining excellence in one's ownability to provide pharmaceutical care.
  • Goal S2: Demonstrate ethical conduct in all activities related to pharmacy practice.
  • Goal S3: Maintain a professional image.
  • Goal S4: Manage change effectively.
  • Goal S6: Maintain active involvement in local, state, and national pharmacyorganizations.
  • Goal S8: Use an organized system for staying current with pertinent literature.
  • Goal S9: Communicate clearly when speaking or writing.
  • Goal S10: Maximize work efficiency through the use of computers.
  • Goal S11: Solve practice problems efficiently.
  • Goal S12: Work harmoniously with others in the health system.
  • Goal S13: Display compassion for patients.
  • Goal S14: Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
  • Goal S15: Deliver effective education and training techniques.
  • Goal S17: Understand pharmaceutical-care delivery systems in nonacute-caresettings.
  • Goal S19: Understand the process of establishing a pharmacy practice residencyprogram.
  • Goal S20: Accept responsibility for accurate evaluation of one's own work.
  • Goal S21: Resolve conflicts through negotiation.
  • Goal S23: Manage time effectively to fulfill practice responsibilities.
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Direct Patient Care

Providing Quality Patient Care Using a Pharmacy Practice Methodology:
  • Goal P1: Conduct direct patient-care activities using a consistent approachthat reflects the philosophy of pharmaceutical care and that is performedwith the efficiency and depth of experience characteristic of an experiencedpharmacist.
  • Goal P2: Design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specificpharmacotherapy. (When provided as part of the practice of pharmaceuticalcare, this goal always involves a series of integrated, interrelated steps.Because in an increasing number of health systems the role of the pharmacisthas been expanded to include the implementation and management of the regimen,Goal P2E has been included to cover residency programs where this is thecase. To facilitate teaching and assessment, the six steps are detailed belowas separate, but related goal areas.)
  • Goal P2A: Build the information base needed to design a medication therapyregimen.
  • Goal P2B: Design pharmacotherapeutic regimens.
  • Goal P2C: Design monitoring plans for pharmacotherapeutic regimens.
  • Goal P2D: Recommend pharmacotherapeutic regimens and corresponding monitoringplans.
  • Goal P2E: Implement the pharmacotherapeutic regimen and/or correspondingmonitoring plan.
  • Goal P2F: Redesign pharmacotherapeutic regimens and corresponding monitoringplans based on evaluation of monitoring data.
  • Goal P3: When appropriate in the primary care environment, identify appropriatepersonnel for managing patients' health care needs.
  • Goal P4: Provide medication-use education to patients and caregivers.
  • Goal P5: Ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care to and from the acute andambulatory patient-care settings.
  • Goal P6: Document pharmaceutical care activities appropriately.
Providing Quality Patient Care Through Participation in Pharmacy Systems:
  • Goal P7: Prepare and dispense medications using appropriate techniques andfollowing the health system's policies and procedures.
  • Goal P8: Participate in the health system's process for assessing, managing,and reporting medication errors.
  • Goal P9: Participate in the management of medical emergencies.
  • Goal P10: Understand a process for formulating and delivering programs thatcenter on disease prevention and wellness promotion.
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Drug Information and Drug Policy Development

Providing Drug Information and Medication-Use Education:
  • Goal I1: Provide concise, applicable, and timely responses to requests fordrug information from health care providers and patients.
  • Goal I2: Select a core library appropriate for a specific practice setting.
  • Goal I3: Write newsletter articles that provide pertinent medication-useinformation for health care professionals.
  • Goal I4: Provide inservice education to physicians, nurses, and otherpractitioners.
Participating in Developing and Evaluating Medication-Use Policies:
  • Goal I5: Participate in the health system's formulary process.
  • Goal I6: Participate in the development or modification of policies for theuse of medications in a health system.
  • Goal I7: Participate in the medication-use evaluation (MUE) program in ahealth system.
  • Goal I8: Understand the process for developing or revising policies forassessment, management, prevention, and reporting of adverse drug reactions.
  • Goal I9: Understand the process for assessing, managing, preventing, andreporting medication errors.
  • Goal I10: Understand the approach to assessing, managing, preventing, andreporting drug interactions.
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Practice Management

Developing Personal Practice Management Skills:
  • Goal M1: Understand leadership philosophies that support pharmaceutical careand pharmacy practice excellence.
  • Goal M2: Work through the political and decision-making structure to accomplishone's practice area goals.
  • Goal M3: Contribute to the achievement of pharmacy goals through effectivelyparticipating in or leading committees and informal work groups.
  • Goal M4: Participate in the evaluation of a current pharmacy service or programto determine if it meets the stated goals.
Managing Integrated Pharmaceutical Care Services:
  • Goal M5: Understand the process of developing proposals for a new service.
  • Goal M6: Understand methods used to monitor and evaluate the cost of therapy.
  • Goal M7: Understand the process of management of the practice area's humanresources.
  • Goal M8: Understand steps that must be taken to ensure departmental compliancewith accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements (e.g., JCAHOrequirements; ASHP standards, statements, and guidelines; state and federal laws regulating pharmacy practice; and OSHA regulations).
  • Goal M9: Participate in the pharmacy department's planning process.
  • Goal M10: Participate in the development and implementation of selected pharmacydepartment's policies and procedures.
  • Goal M11: Participate in the departmental performance improvement program.
  • Goal M12: Understand the appropriate relationship between the pharmacistand the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Goal M13: Manage the use of investigational drug products according toestablished protocols and the health system setting's policies and procedures.
  • Goal M14: Use pharmacy support personnel effectively.
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