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CSHP 2015 Tool kits

Complex Inpatients Need Medication Experts: Optimizing the Pharmacists' Role on the Healthcare Team (Objective 1.3)

From Paper To Practice: Incorporating Evidence into your Pharmacy Practice (Objective 3.1)

One Dose at a Time: Implementing a Unit-Dose Medication Management System (manual and automated, cabinets and robotics) (Objective 4.7) Coming soon

Introduction

CSHP 2015 is a vision of pharmacy practice excellence. Its 6 goals aim to ensure that medication use is effective, evidence-based, and safe, contributing meaningfully to public health. Thirty-six objectives specifically related to pharmacy practice, each with measurable targets, support the goals.

From October to December 2009, Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) conducted a survey of Canadian healthcare facilities, asking pharmacy directors and managers to rank the priorities of the CSHP 2015 objectives and to indicate the extent to which their facility has achieved the intent of each objective. The survey (results available at CSHP Survey of Facilities) identified the top 10 CSHP 2015 objectives that respondents considered as having high priority. In July 2010, the CSHP 2015 Steering Committee selected 3 of these objectives for development of tool kits designed to help pharmacists and pharmacy departments achieve the objectives. The objectives selected were those for which tool kits could be used in the clinical practice of pharmacy, either by pharmacy directors or administrators or by individual pharmacists. Tool kits have now been prepared for the following 3 CSHP 2015 objectives:

Objective 1.3: In 90% of hospitals, pharmacists manage medication therapy for inpatients with complex and high-risk medication regimens in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.

Objective 3.1: In 100% of hospitals and related healthcare settings, pharmacists are actively involved in providing care to individual patients that is based on evidence, such as the use of quality drug information resources, published clinical studies or guidelines, and expert consensus advice.

Objective 4.7: 75% of pharmacies in hospitals utilize a unit-dose system to distribute medications for 90% or more of the total beds.

Three individuals, drawn from the CSHP 2015 Steering Committee and or the CSHP 2015 Branch Champion Subcommittee, each volunteered to facilitate 1 of the working groups that would develop the CSHP 2015 tool kits. For each of the selected objectives, CSHP members working in facilities that had achieved  the objective were invited to join the relevant working group or to share their “keys to success” for achieving the objective’s target. Using a tool kit template as a guide, each working group met by teleconference in August 2010. Individual members of the working groups then volunteered to develop sections of the tool kit. Communication within the working groups occurred by teleconference and email. CSHP contacted pharmacy directors to request business case examples of implementing either a new pharmacy program or an automated unit-dose system for inclusion in the tool kits. The tool kits were completed by December 2010 and will be accessible to CSHP members only via the CSHP website.

Who should use these tool kits?

How is each CSHP 2015 tool kit organized?

Each tool kit provides information on the following topics:

• Brief description
• Why is this objective important?
• How to develop/implement/use this toolkit (may include information about procedures, barriers to implementation, success stories, examples)
• Evaluation or performance measurements (for process or outcome)
• Glossary of terms, abbreviations, and symbols
• Appendix (if needed)
• Literature cited (references)
• Additional reading

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