RX603 - Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE)

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RX603 Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) is a 6-week, full-time off-campus experiential course in ambulatory pharmacy designed for patient-centered pharmaceutical care. Students apply didactic knowledge to direct care, working as integral members of the healthcare team under a preceptor. The experience emphasizes drug therapy evaluation, implementation, and monitoring, including topic and disease state discussions, medication reconciliation, and patient safety. Students complete comprehensive assignments such as SOAP notes, case presentation, topic discussions, journal club or drug information paper, patient education or discharge counseling, interprofessional reflections, and NAPLEX preparations, uploading course work electronically for completion.

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Course Overview

Course Details and Requirements

Course Description and Learning Goals

Course Objectives

Minimum Course Activities and Assessments

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| Course Number: | RX603 | | --- | --- | | Course Title: | Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) | | Credits: | 6 credits, 6 weeks | | Required Foundation: | P4 Standing
Successful completion of all P1, P2, and P3 courses. | | Course Coordinator: | Peter McLean, PharmD
Director, Office of Experiential Education
Office: Peabody 333D
[Email: mcleanp@husson.edu](Email: mcleanp@husson.edu)
[Tel: 207-941-7089](Tel: 207-941-7089) | | Teaching Faculty: | TBD | | Required Text | 1. DiPiro et al. Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 10th Edition. McGraw Hill, 2017.
2. Shapiro, K., Brown, S. A., Garrett, S. D., Ale-Ali, A., & RxPrep (Firm) . (2017) . RxPrep course book. | | Suggested Texts | 1. Koda-Kimble et al. Applied Therapeutics 10th Edition. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. 2013.
2. Krinsky et al. APhA Handbook for Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 18th Edition. American Pharmacists Association, 2015.
3. Winter’s Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 5th Edition. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2010.
4. Bickley et al. Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 12th Edition, 2017. | | Course Description: | In this APPE course, students will participate in a 6 week, 40 hours a week, full-time offcampus experience, under the direction of a preceptor, in an ambulatory pharmacy practice to provide effective and appropriate patient-centered pharmaceutical care in the ambulatory setting. | Ambulatory Detailed APPE Course Description This course offers student pharmacists full time opportunities to apply the knowledge and synthesize the didactic information and skills required for direct patient care in the ambulatory environment. This direct patient care APPEallows students to function as an integral member of healthcare team and to be actively involved in the care of patients. Students are expected to demonstrate professional communication, maturity and judgment skills with exceptional work habits. The overall goal of this APPE course is for students to understand and obtain practical experience in evaluation, implementation, and monitoring of drug therapy and to optimize the delivery of pharmaceutical care and improve the therapeutic outcomes in patients with a variety of disease states. Successful completion of this experience will give students the opportunity to develop confidence to provide effective and appropriate patient centered pharmaceutical care in the pharmacy practice environment. The students will be expected to be prepared and participate in ‘Topic and Disease State Discussions’ as assigned by thepreceptor. The student will be expected to understand and reflect upon inter-professional collaboration, medication reconciliation, and any appropriate areas of patient safety. Course Objectives: 1) Students will obtain the information needed to document and provide comprehensive drug therapy management. 2) Students will educate patients and healthcare providers using appropriate listening, verbal, nonverbal, and written communication skills. 3) Students will function as part of an interprofessional team to provide patient-centered care and promote public health. 4) Students will demonstrate ethical and professional behavior in all practice activities while complying with federal, state, and local regulations. 5) Students will select and recommend appropriate drug therapy (prescription and non-prescription) and nonpharmacologic treatment as part of the patient care plan. 6) Students will retrieve, analyze, and interpret the professional, lay, and scientific literature to make informed, rational, and evidence-based decisions. 7) Demonstrate professionalism as appropriate as an entering pharmacist. 8) Demonstrate self-awareness by evaluating Self-assess assessments of the attainment of course outcomes and content / topics / disease states / drugs (preceptor will evaluate student’s mid-rotation self-evaluation) .

FAQs

What is the duration and structure of RX603 APPE?

RX603 runs for 6 weeks with a full-time off-campus experience totaling 40 hours per week under the direction of a preceptor.

What course activities are required for assessment?

Students complete minimum activities including patient education/discharge counseling, oral case presentation and/or formal PowerPoint, topic discussion/disease overview participation, written SOAP notes, journal club and/or drug information paper, and assigned NAPLEX readings with required test performance.

How are assignments and reflections submitted for course completion?

All completed course assignments, activities, reflections, and NAPLEX test results must be electronically uploaded to RX Preceptor, except interprofessional (IPE) reflections, which are uploaded to Exam Soft.

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