The ASHP/ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) aims to advance pharmacy practice and advance patient care in hospitals and health systems across the U.S. Support and engagement at the state level is critical to the initiative's advancement. This tool kit was designed to arm state affiliate leaders with turn-key tools needed to advance the PPMI within their state.
Essentials
To Do List: Recommendations for State Affiliate Implementation of PPMI
Consider this "to do" list as a template for state affiliate involvement in the implementation of the PPMI. Sample documents and tools are linked throughout the list. The activities listed below represent approximately 24 months of PPMI activity led by the state affiliate.
Engage: Create a PPMI State Leadership Team/Task Force
- A leadership team might include key health system leaders from your state and/or those from your state that attended the PPMI Summit in 2010 [PDF]. Consider having 5 – 10 members serve on this leadership team
- Consider including leaders from both small and large hospitals
- Consider inviting students and residents
- Gain a commitment from a volunteer chair or co-chairs to serve as "champions" for advancing the PPMI in your state
- Announce creation of Leadership Team to state affiliate members [DOC]
Prepare: Have all members of the State PPMI Leadership Team review the ASHP/ASHP Foundation PPMI website
Discuss: Convene a meeting of the State PPMI Leadership Team
- Consider using this sample agenda [DOC]
- Discuss how to advance the PPMI in the state
- Develop an HSA dissemination plan and completion goal (see below)
Promote: Promote statewide completion of PPMI HSA and action plan
- Compile a list of hospital pharmacy directors and contact information.
- Set a deadline and goal for completion
- Suggested completion goal: 60-80% of hospitals in state
- Email HSA link with request for completion [DOC] through an email blast
- Email HSA link as follow-up request [DOC] after four weeks
- To enhance completion rate, have Leadership Team members and/or residents working with Team members contact individual directors
- ASHP can provide status reports regarding completed assessments by contacting the Affiliate Relations Division.
Expand: Plan and conduct a forum at an upcoming state affiliate conference to discuss the PPMI with pharmacists from across the state.
Share: Plan and conduct a second statewide forum of hospital pharmacy leaders
- This forum could be part of an existing state affiliate conference or a stand-alone event
- Consider using this sample agenda [DOC]
- Forum programming could include
- Explanation of objectives for the state-based PPMI project
- Review of data from the HSA
- Sharing of best practices for implementation of PPMI consensus statements
- Next steps for PPMI in state
Reconvene: Convene a third meeting of the State PPMI Leadership Team
- Review the survey data, to evaluate practice gaps suggested by state survey data. ASHP can provide you with a state-based report of practice gaps. Contact the Affiliate Relations Division for these reports.
- Discuss and determine possible educational, policy, communication and resource efforts to close gaps
- Determine how to present and discuss the state data at another statewide forum
- Review and discuss outcomes of second statewide forum
- Discuss role of state affiliate and ASHP in sharing and implementation of best practices
Additional Resources
For questions about PPMI and assistance with using this tool kit, please contact the ASHP Affiliate Relations Division.
ASHP and the ASHP Research Education would like to acknowledge the hard work of the Residents, Preceptors, members, and staff of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin for their work on creating the resources for this Tool Kit.