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Proposed Curricular Competencies
Dear School of Pharmacy Faculty:
As the initial step in the mapping and revision of the professional curriculum (outlined by Dean Nelson in March, 2003), the Curricular Affairs Committee proposes the following set of Professional Competencies and Expected Outcomes. These competencies define a minimum level of achievement and will serve as the framework for revision of the candidate ability statements and the subsequent mapping/tracking of those competencies and abilities throughout specific courses within the curriculum. The twenty competencies were developed based upon a merger of two existing documents, the competencies required by ACPE as stated in their "Standards for Curriculum", and the "Texas Tech Minimum Competencies" that were developed in 1994. The table at the end of this document will allow you to review how the two were merged.
The TTUHSC-SOP Professional Compentencies will be presented by CAC for approval at the May 8th faculty meeting. To facilitate the process, we are providing them to the faculty in advance for review and comment. The CAC will discuss all feedback from faculty and will post a revised set 72 hrs prior to the faculty meeting. PLEASE PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO THE COMMITTEE NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH (You may email the CAC Chair at krystal@ama.ttuhsc.edu).
Proposed TTUHSC-SOP Professional Competencies
- Evaluate medication orders/prescriptions and the patient's database for efficacy, appropriateness, potential toxicity and cost effectiveness.
- Prepare medications as appropriate to meet patients' needs according to Texas and federal laws, rules and regulations, including the compounding, packaging, and dispensing of dosage forms.
- Manage systems for storage, preparation, and dispensing of medicines, and supervise technical personnel who may be involved in such processes.
- Manage and administer a pharmacy and pharmacy practice, including legal, fiscal, personnel, and patient care components.
- Apply computer skills and technological advancements to practice.
- Communicate with health care professionals and patients regarding rational drug therapy, wellness, and health promotion.
- Design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and modify or recommend modifications in drug therapy care plans to insure effective, safe, and economical patient care.
- Identify, assess, and solve medication-related problems, and provide a clinical judgment as to the continuing effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and intended therapeutic outcomes
- Assess and therapeutically manage patients according to a written protocol in partnership with a physician, including ordering medications and/or laboratory tests.
- Evaluate patient problems and triage patients to other health professionals as appropriate
- Administer Medications
- Counsel patients, caregivers, and other health professionals on the rational, safe, and effective use of medications and related therapy.
- Understand relevant diet, nutrition, and non-drug therapies
- Recommend, counsel, and monitor patient use of nonprescription medications.
- Provide emergency first care
- Retrieve, evaluate, and manage professional information and literature.
- Collect and interpret relevant patient data as a basis for therapeutic decision-making.
- Collaborate with other health professionals
- Evaluate and document interventions and pharmaceutical care outcomes.
- Practice in an ethical manner.
Table - Merging Process
| ACPE Required Professional Competencies + | Texas Tech Minimum Competencies = | Proposed TTUHSC-SOP Professional Competencies |
| Evaluate drug orders or prescriptions, accurately and safely compound drugs in appropriate dosage forms, and package and dispense dosage forms. | Prospectively review medication orders and the patient's database to evaluate efficacy, appropriateness, potential toxicity, and cost effectiveness of prescribed drug regimens. Prepare medication as appropriate to meet patients' needs according to Texas and federal laws, rules and regulations, including the compounding and dispensing of dosage forms. | 1) Evaluate medication orders/prescriptions and the patient's database for efficacy, appropriateness, potential toxicity and cost effectiveness. 2) Prepare medications as appropriate to meet patients' needs according to Texas and federal laws, rules and regulations, including the compounding, packaging, and dispensing of dosage forms. |
| Manage systems for storage, preparation, and dispensing of medicines, and supervise technical personnel who may be involved in such processes. | 3) Manage systems for storage, preparation, and dispensing of medicines, and supervise technical personnel who may be involved in such processes. | |
| Manage and administer a pharmacy and pharmacy practice | Interpret financial information relevant to a pharmacy practice environment Supervise pharmacy personnel. | 4) Manage and administer a pharmacy and pharmacy practice, including legal, fiscal, personnel, and patient care components. |
| Apply computer skills and technological advancements to practice | 5) Apply computer skills and technological advancements to practice. | |
| Communicate with health care professionals and patients regarding rational drug therapy, wellness, and health promotion | 6) Communicate with health care professionals and patients regarding rational drug therapy, wellness, and health promotion. | |
| Design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and modify or recommend modifications in drug therapy to insure effective, safe, and economical patient care | Develop therapeutic care plans | 7) Design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and modify or recommend modifications in drug therapy care plans to insure effective, safe, and economical patient care. |
| Identify, assess, and solve medication-related problems, and provide a clinical judgment as to the continuing effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and intended therapeutic outcomes | 8) Identify, assess, and solve medication-related problems, and provide a clinical judgment as to the continuing effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and intended therapeutic outcomes | |
| Evaluate patients and order medications and/or laboratory tests in accordance with established standards of practice | Assess and therapeutically manage patients according to a written protocol in partnership with a physician, including prescribing legend medications under protocol. | 9) Assess and therapeutically manage patients according to a written protocol in partnership with a physician, including ordering medications and/or laboratory tests. |
| Evaluate patient problems and triage patients to other health professionals as appropriate | 10) Evaluate patient problems and triage patients to other health professionals as appropriate | |
| Administer medications | Administer medications. | 11) Administer Medications |
| monitor and counsel patients regarding the purposes, uses, and effects of their medications and related therapy |
Counsel patients, caregivers, and other health professionals on the rational, safe, and effective use of medications. | 12) Counsel patients, caregivers, and other health professionals on the rational, safe, and effective use of medications and related therapy. |
| Understand relevant diet, nutrition, and non-drug therapies | 13) Understand relevant diet, nutrition, and non-drug therapies | |
| recommend, counsel, and monitor patient use of nonprescription drugs | Counsel patients and caregivers on the rational, safe, and effective use of non-prescription medications | 14) Recommend, counsel, and monitor patient use of nonprescription medications. |
| provide emergency first care | 15) Provide emergency first care | |
| retrieve, evaluate, and manage professional information and literature | 16) Retrieve, evaluate, and manage professional information and literature. | |
| use clinical data to optimize therapeutic drug regimens; | Collect and interpret relevant patient data as a basis for therapeutic decision-making. | 17) Collect and interpret relevant patient data as a basis for therapeutic decision-making. |
| Collaborate with other health professionals | 18) Collaborate with other health professionals | |
| evaluate and document interventions and pharmaceutical care outcomes | 19) Evaluate and document interventions and pharmaceutical care outcomes. | |
| Practice in an ethical manner | 20) Practice in an ethical manner. |