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Section Advisory Group on the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative

Charge:

  1. Develop educational programming content to increase member awareness of the PPMI initiative and recommendations, and the need to advance the health-system pharmacy practice model;
  2. Identify needs of pharmacy leaders related to practice model advancement including specific actions they should take to implement optimal practice models;
  3. Develop educational tools and strategies to assist section members with understanding the core principles of the optimal practice model (e.g.; the recommendations of the PPMI summit);
  4. Integrate the outcomes of the PPMI summit into Section activities to assist members in bringing about  practice model change in their organizations and measuring associated outcomes of such advancement; 
  5. Educate members on advantages and disadvantages of competing practice models (as they relate to PPMI Summit core principle of providing consistent pharmacy patient care services for all patients), and issues surrounding practice model change.
  6. Describe optimal practice models that ensure the provision of safe, effective, efficient and accountable medication-related care for our patients, taking into account the education and training of pharmacists, the prospect of enhancing the capacity of pharmacy technicians and the current and future state of technology;
  7. Coordination of activities with ASHP and its component groups
  8. Participate in the development of measures for the progress of the PPMI;
  9. Foster understanding of and support for optimal pharmacy practice models in hospitals by patients and caregivers, health care professionals, executives and payers;
  10. Determine the tools and resources needed to implement optimal pharmacy practice models, such as tools to support advocacy initiatives with Boards of Pharmacy.

Leadership

Chair
Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D.
UNC Hospital
Pharmacy Dept
Chapel Hill, NC

Key Information

 

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