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The CDC recently released critical updates to the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs.  First released in 2014, CDC’s Core Elements for Hospital Stewardship Programs offer providers and facilities a set of key principles to guide efforts to improve antibiotic use and, therefore, advance patient safety and improve outcomes. Hosted by Anna Legreid Dopp, Director of Clinical Guidelines and Quality Improvement, we are joined by two experts from the CDC to provide an overview of these timely updates.

As an original sponsor of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, ASHP is proud to represent pharmacy in interprofessional efforts to address this critical workforce and patient care issue. Today, ASHP’s Christina Martin, Director of New Practitioners Forum, speaks with Charlee Alexander, Senior Program Officer at NAM, about the creation and launch of the Collaborative. The importance of an organization's leadership supporting their workforce's well-being is highlighted through case studies at the Ohio State University and the Virginia Mason Kirkland Medical Center in Washington.

Questions about what CMS’s recent comment request on removing barriers to clinicians practicing at the top of their license means for you? We’ve got answers! We’ll talk through CMS’s goals for scope of practice deregulation, ASHP’s advocacy efforts in response to the CMS comment request, the potential outcomes of these efforts, and our next steps to advance pharmacists’ scope of practice.

Join Jennifer N. Clements, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, CDE, BCACP, of Spartanburg Regional and Zach Weber, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCACP, CDE, of Purdue University College of Pharmacy as they discuss care transitions for patients with diabetes.

Join Jodi Taylor, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Pharmacy Practice at Union University and her guests, Dr. Daniel Lewis, Pharmacy Manager at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic; Dr. Luke Miller, Director of Pharmacy at Ascension Seton Hays; and Dr. Anne Nguyen, Pharmacy Manager at Houston Methodist West Hospital. Jodi and her three guests discuss what it takes and what it means to move from being a clinician to a manager.