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APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management
The APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM) is dedicated to assisting members in enhancing the profession of pharmacy, improving medication use, and advancing patient care.
APhA-APPM News and Highlights
New CPE Webinar
Statistical Testings in Excel: Practical Applications Webinar
Enroll now and earn 1 hour of free CPE credit!
Date/Time:
Wednesday, February 21, 3:00-4:00 pm (ET)
Description:
Join the APhA-APPM Preceptor Special Interest Group for Use of telehealth to enhance pharmacy services during transitions of care. Learn how to organize and run statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel to fuel research and quality assessment/improvement activities. This is a must-see webinar for student pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacist researchers.
Speaker:
Nalin Payakachat, BPharm, MSc, PhDAssociate Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice
University for Arkansa Medical Sciences
Little Rock, Arkansas
Preceptor SIG New Practitioner Spotlight: Lauren Lakdawala, PharmD, BCACP
Dr. Lakdawala is a 2013 PharmD graduate from the Virginia Commonwealth University. She completed a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency at John Hopkins Home Care Group, and stayed on at John Hopkins as a Clinical Coordinator of Specialty Services. Dr. Lakdawala is responsible for fertility services and high risk pregnancy program at John Hopkins Outpatient Pharmacy. In addition, she works with patients receiving specialty medications in other service areas such as Hepatitis C, Inflammatory Conditions, Growth Hormone, and Multiple Sclerosis, just to name a few.
Dr. Lakdawala has served in several leadership positions. She currently serves as the APhA New Practitioner Advisory Committee Member-at-Large and as a New Practitioner Mentor to the University of Maryland APhA-ASP Chapter. Dr. Lakdawala also serves as the Maryland Pharmacists Association New Practitioner Network Chair.
At her practice site, Dr. Lakdawala precepts IPPE and APPE students from the University of Maryland. She has also offered shadowing experiences in specialty pharmacy services to students at Duquesne University, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and Ohio Northern University. Additionally, Dr. Lakdawala also serves as a preceptor in the PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency program at Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, serving as longitudinal preceptor in leadership rotation for policy committee, and focused rotations in patient care (fertility services, Hepatitis C, and staffing).Dr. Lakdawala clearly has a passion for precepting. She states that she was fortunate to have fantastic preceptors as part of her experiential education at VCU School of Pharmacy. Their dedication to her pharmacy learning and professional development made her realize as a student that I want to give back to future pharmacists in the same manner. One of her former preceptors advised her, “You always have to pay it forward”, and that sums up why she is a preceptor – to continue to give back to the profession, helping it grow one day at a time.
Dr. Lakdawala shares a rewarding preceptor experience: “On a particular rotation, a student encountered a patient who was non-adherent to their Hepatitis C medication. The student decided to take initiative and follow the patient closely in the last two weeks of rotation. I was delighted to see how soon a relationship was formed between patient and student, as the patient would expect the frequent adherence call check-in from student. Following the student’s completed rotation, I continued to follow this patient and discovered he had missed far less doses on treatment than in the first half of treatment. Through the student’s efforts, I felt satisfied as a preceptor of the impact the student made helping patient achieve Hep C cure.”
Dr. Lakdawala’s advice for other New Practitioners: “New Practitioners, regardless of how many years as a practicing pharmacist, can serve as a preceptor. You have gone through rotations as a student and our practicing as a pharmacist. This is your opportunity to make an impact on the profession, helping to pave the way forward by advancing education and the future of pharmacy. Start slow, ask for a student in the spring semester, or start by co-precepting with another pharmacist at your practice site. I also found value in having a colleague mentor me when I started out precepting, helping me with planning, and any professional issues along the way.”
If you would like to nominate (or self-nominate) a candidate for a future spotlight, please contact APhA-APPM Preceptor SIG New Practitioner Chair Angela Olenik at angela.olenik@gmail.com.
APhA-APPM Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Join an APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM) Special Interest Group:
Compounding SIG
The Compounding SIG is a network community within APhA-APPM where pharmacists and student pharmacists share ideas, education, and advocacy for compounding pharmacy.
Diabetes Management SIG
The Diabetes Management SIG is a network for pharmacists and student pharmacists who share an interest in the area of diabetes management.
Immunizing Pharmacists SIG
The Immunizing Pharmacists SIG is a network for pharmacists and student pharmacists who share an interest in the area of immunizations.
Medical Home/ACO SIG
The Medical Home/ACO SIG is a network for practitioners, administrators and educators who share an interest regarding new models for patient care, specifically the patient–centered medical home and accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Medication Management SIG
The Medication Management SIG provides pharmacists from different practice areas an opportunity to communicate professional interests, concerns, and prospective goals for MTM services.
Nuclear Pharmacy Practice SIG
The Nuclear Pharmacy Practice SIG serves pharmacists involved in the specialty practice of nuclear pharmacy by providing its stakeholders an avenue in which to fulfill individual professional goals and support the goals of the Academy.
Pain, Palliative Care and Addiction SIG
The Pain, Palliative Care and Addiction SIG supports pharmacists and student pharmacist interns who care for individuals with acute/chronic pain and pain associated with life limiting illnesses. The SIG also focuses on associated addictions of any kind.
Preceptor SIG
The Preceptor SIG is a professional network of pharmacists who share an interest in any or all aspects of precepting student pharmacists and/or pharmacy residents.
Transitions of Care SIG
The Transitions of Care SIG is a professional network of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working to overcome transitional challenge and enhance collaboration among pharmacists in all practice setting as they provide care to patients during transition to/from various practice settings.
Connect with SIG leaders and members via APhA-APPM SIG ENGAGE communities:
Getting Started Video Library for APhA ENGAGE, your members-only online discussion community
Watch for tips on Setting Up your APhA ENGAGE profile (2 min 32 sec)
- Learn: Make New Contacts on APhA ENGAGE (1 min 3 sec)
- Explore: APhA ENGAGE Communities and Discussion Boards (4 min 27 sec)
- Share and Search: Member-Contributed Resources like PDFs, Word docs, tutorials, and webinars within your APhA ENGAGE communities (2 min 26 sec)
Start networking with SIG members on APhA ENGAGE by following these few easy steps:
- Log into pharmacist.com with your username and password.
- Click on "My Account".
- Select "Academies, Sections, and SIGs" on the left-hand side of the page.
- Click on "Edit" in the right-hand side of the page.
- Under "Primary Academy" select "APhA-APPM". You may choose additional academy of "APhA-APRS".
- Under "APhA-APPM Special Interest Groups (APhA-APPM SIGs)" check the box next to all SIGs of interest.
- Once the above steps have been completed, visit APhA ENGAGE at http://engage.pharmacist.com and JOIN your chosen SIG community(s) in APhA ENGAGE.
Tech questions? Contact Elizabeth Douglass, APhA ENGAGE staff manager at edouglass@aphanet.org.
Questions or suggestions for community-related content? Contact Margaret Tomecki at mtomecki@aphanet.org.
Get Plugged Into APhA-APPM
Are you a New Practitioner or student pharmacist? A new member to APhA-APPM? Or a current APhA-APPM member looking for ways to get more involved with APhA-APPM? APhA-APPM invites you to learn more about the Academy, the Special Interest Groups, and various elected and non-elected volunteer opportunities. Start networking today!
Visit www.pharmacist.com/volunteer to learn more about the volunteer opportunities in APhA-APPM.
Call for SIG Applications
The APhA-APPM Executive Committee (EC) is pleased to release the Guidelines for APhA-APPM Special Interest Groups and the Application for APhA-APPM Special Interest Groups. A SIG is an interest based member group that will be led a volunteer coordinator and co-coordinator and provide a forum for members to network and support the profession by addressing emerging issues. Watch the video on SIGs. Academy members are encouraged to review the Guidelines and Application and contact staff Margaret Tomecki or a member of the APhA-APPM EC for assistance with the Application.
APhA-APPM Resources
Clinical Guidelines
APhA launched a Clinical Guidelines page on our website this week! The APhA-APPM Medication Management SIG’s Clinical Committee compiled links to all of the clinical guidelines that pharmacists may need while they practice. These links are organized by organ system and available to any pharmacist who visits the website. Additionally, the Committee developed Summary sheets for over 85 guidelines. These Summaries include the key page numbers for information or charts that will be of particular interest to pharmacists.
Immunization Quick Reference Guide
The Immunization Quick Reference Guide was designed to enable certified immunizing pharmacists and student pharmacists to stay up-to-date on current vaccinations and guidelines. This guide is created and updated by the APhA-APPM Immunizing Pharmacists SIG. (Note: APhA Members must login to download this PDF)
Transitions of Care Case Examples
The Transitions of Care Case Examples were designed as a members-only resource for pharmacists and student pharmacists to improve transitions of care (TOC) services across a multitude of health care settings. The document addresses pharmacists’, student pharmacists’, and pharmacy technicians’ roles in transitions of care services within a community hospital, an outpatient health system pharmacy, an ambulatory care clinic, a long-term care facility, and a community pharmacy. This resource was created by the APhA-APPM Transitions of Care SIG.
Immunization Travel Health Pocket Guide
The Travel Health Pocket Reference was developed by the APhA-APPM Immunizing Pharmacists SIG Travel Committee to serve as a condensed resource for trained pharmacists providing travel health services to diverse patient populations. (Note: APhA Members must login to download this PDF)
Radiopharmaceutical Vendor Qualification Checklist
This tool will assist hospital pharmacists in evaluating relevant regulatory and practice standards when selecting a commercial nuclear pharmacy to supply radiopharmaceuticals to institutional nuclear medicine departments. Developed by the APhA-APPM Nuclear Pharmacy Practice SIG.
