PHARM 323 - Patient Care Skills 4

★ 3 (fi 6)(SECOND, 0-1S-3)

Students will apply knowledge and develop skills needed by a pharmacist to provide patient care, using a systematic process to define and achieve the goals of optimizing safe, effective pharmacotherapy. Students will continue to develop abilities in professionalism, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork and self-directed learning. Students will identify, resolve and prevent drug related problems increasing in complexity, and will further develop their patient education, and drug information skills. Sessions are designed to facilitate collaborative learning that will be transferable to diverse practice settings, with more emphasis on the hospital setting. (Restricted to Pharmacy students.)