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The Pharmacist
Published in William N. Kelly, Pharmacy, 2018
Pharmacists who specialize in a field (e.g., pharmacotherapy, psychiatric pharmacy, nuclear pharmacy, nutrition support pharmacy, ambulatory care pharmacy, or oncology [cancer] pharmacy) may seek board certification by voluntarily sitting for a rigorous examination. The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) oversees the certification process.11 Pharmacists who pass the examination for the specialty practice may use designations after their names to show this competency. This is an example of how the designation would appear: Thomas R. Jones, PharmD, BCPS. The BPS designations are as follows: pharmacotherapy (BCPS), nuclear pharmacy (BCNP), nutrition support pharmacy (BCNSP), psychiatric pharmacy (BCPP), ambulatory care pharmacy (BCACP), and oncology pharmacy (BCOP).
Integration of a clinical pharmacy specialist into a substance use disorder intensive outpatient treatment program to improve prescribing rates of alcohol use disorder pharmacotherapy
Published in Substance Abuse, 2018
Erica Dimitropoulos, Stephanie Bertucci, Kara Wong
Within the IOP are two medication related groups: a weekly 30-minute orientation group and a monthly 60-minute medication education group. Group content included discussion of safety and effectiveness of SUD pharmacotherapy. Patients were identified and referred to the CPS during these groups or through their IOP treatment coordinator. If patients expressed interest in initiating AUD pharmacotherapy, they were offered an appointment with a CPS as a bridge until the next available psychiatrist appointment. The CPS’ had scopes of practice that enabled prescribing of medications for AUD and allowed them to provide medication management and monitoring services for these patients. There were four available 30-minute clinic slots dedicated to this initiative each week. Of note, this service was primarily staffed by a post-graduate year two (PGY 2) psychiatric pharmacy resident with oversight provided by the two mental health CPS at the facility.
Pharmacy: Addressing substance use in the 21st century
Published in Substance Abuse, 2019
As of August 2019, there are only 1194 pharmacists in the U.S. with current BCPP100 certification,99 and only 73 PGY-2 programs in psychiatric pharmacy in the U.S.101 Comparatively, in 2018, there were 348,000 pharmacists employed in the U.S.,102 nearly 15,000 pharmacy graduates,103 and the majority of these professionals worked at over 67,000 community pharmacies in the country.104 This is why SUD training is both urgent and critical in pharmacy education, since so few pharmacists receive the specialized skills and knowledge required in residency and board certifications after graduation.
A Quality Improvement Project Using Verbal De-Escalation to Reduce Seclusion and Patient Aggression in an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Judy Haefner, Ifeoma Dunn, Marilyn McFarland
The research setting was a 37-bed psychiatry unit in a hospital in a mid-sized city in North Central U.S. The multi-disciplinary team included register nurses, a psychiatric pharmacy technician, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, an occupational therapist, and activity therapists. The unit leadership was supportive of the project aimed at reducing the patient seclusion rate.