Pharmacy

The critical care experience is designed to provide the student with exposure to one of the various intensive care settings. The medical intensive care patient population includes patients with respiratory failure, ARDS, COPD, asthma exacerbations, pneumonia, sepsis, etc. The surgical intensive care patient population includes patients on the trauma services as well as routine scheduled surgeries, which may include abdominal, orthopedic, head and neck, etc. The cardiac intensive care patient population includes patients following open heart surgery, angioplasty, etc.

The rotation is designed to enhance and expand the student’s skills in providing comprehensive patient care in a practical work environment under the direct supervision of a pharmacist preceptor. The student will participate as an active member of a multidisciplinary patient care team and will help to provide clinical pharmacy services. Students will evaluate, assess and monitor medication therapy for select patients on the ICU team. In addition, students will be responsible for developing and maintaining accurate medication profiles, laboratory findings, etc. Other responsibilities may include responding to drug information questions, case/disease state topic discussions, adverse drug reaction follow-up, presenting in-services, and writing newsletter articles.

This rotation is designed to enhance and expand the student’s skills in providing comprehensive patient care in a practical work environment under the direct supervision of a pharmacist preceptor. The student will participate as an active member of a multidisciplinary patient care team and will help to provide clinical pharmacy services. Students will evaluate, assess and monitor medication therapy for select patients on the transplant team service. In addition, students will be responsible for developing and maintaining accurate medication profiles, laboratory findings, etc. Other responsibilities may include responding to drug information questions, case/disease state topic discussions, adverse drug reaction follow-up, presenting in-services, and writing newsletter articles.

This rotation is designed to enhance and expand the student’s skills in providing comprehensive patient care in a practical work environment under the direct supervision of a pharmacist preceptor. The student will participate as an active member on the pharmacy team at the clinic site. Students will evaluate, assess and monitor medication therapy for select patients seen on the pharmacy service at the clinic. In addition, students will be responsible for developing and maintaining accurate medication profiles, laboratory findings, etc. Other responsibilities may include responding to drug information questions, case/disease state topic discussions, adverse drug reaction follow-up, presenting in-services and writing newsletter articles.

The student will gain an understanding of the administrative activities associated with the general operation of the department and the responsibilities of committee/team management. In addition, the student will be provided experiences in the verification and distribution of medications within the OR pharmacy, IV lab pharmacy and satellite pharmacy.