Ernest Dole, Pharm.D., PhC, BCPS, FASHP, a pharmacist clinician at the Pain Consultation and Treatment Center of the University of New Mexico Hospitals in Albuquerque, has been writing prescriptions since 1996. Three years earlier, his state became the first in the nation to grant a subset of highly trained clinical pharmacists prescriptive authority, contingent on [...]

With ASHP eLearning, you can prepare for certification or recertification, earn continuing education credits, and enhance your understanding of specific topic areas, anytime, anywhere. ASHP’s Core Therapeutic Module (CTM) series helps you prepare for a Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) exam with a base knowledge of a variety of topics including cardiac arrhythmias and advanced cardiac [...]

  A pharmacist discovered the mistake, and it was a big one. Gone unnoticed, the error would have corrupted an entire clinical trial. The detection occurred at the outset of a phase I gene therapy trial at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) in New Brunswick. Patients with carcinoma of the bladder were to receive [...]

In 1998, Richard Sakai, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP, became the director of pharmacy service at the 358-bed Children’s Hospital Central California (CHCC) in Madera. For Dr. Sakai, it was a homecoming of sorts. Nearly 20 years earlier, he had left the same hospital to continue his career at several other health systems across California. On his [...]

Numbers alone rarely tell the whole story, but for the University of Wisconsin (UW) Health in Madison, they offer a tantalizing glimpse of a remarkable transformation. Within one year: •  Postoperative venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) per 1,000 patients fell from 11.6 to 6.6. •  Within its 39 primary care clinics, the percentage of patients whose INR [...]

On Feb. 11, six pharmacy students and two faculty members from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy boarded a flight out of a snow-covered Salt Lake City. Twenty-four hours and more than 8,100 miles later, they stepped into the tropical pandemonium of Bangkok, Thailand, and its 12 million residents. For the next five and [...]

ASHP is now offering a better way to prepare for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties’ (BPS’) Pharmacotherapy Certification Examination with the Pharmacotherapy Review Course on ASHP eLearning. Designed based on the domains, tasks, and knowledge statements developed by the BPS for the exam, the course will help you prepare by identifying areas needed for in-depth review [...]

A little over a year ago, I transitioned from a clinical faculty role to being a director of a hospital pharmacy department. I quickly found that the clinical skills in critical care that I had developed over the first dozen or so years of my career either applied just a little bit or not at [...]

ASHP and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) are working together to improve patient outcomes by facilitating the involvement of pharmacists in medication-related transitions of care, from acute care to home settings. The associations recently launched the Medication Management in Care Transitions Project, which focuses on identifying and profiling existing best-practice models. Poorly coordinated care transitions [...]

More than 50 hours of on-demand continuing education are now available from ASHP Advantage. Browse listings of convenient on-demand educational activities, as well as publications, podcasts and live webinars. On-demand activities are based on educational symposia at the 46th Midyear Clinical Meeting in New Orleans. Newly available topics include antimicrobial stewardship in health systems, exploring [...]