CEimpact Podcast

As a pharmacist, you need to think on your feet, yet it can be difficult if you are burned out. How can you be freed up to perform to the best of your abilities? How can you bring more revenue to the business so you can provide a healthier pharmacy? In this week's conversation, Jake Galdo talks with Randy McDonough, co-owner of Towncrest Pharmacy Corp, about they've brought revenue into their pharmacies through 1) being an interventionist; 2) documenting clinical services on their 10K sheets; and 3) hiring candidates who demonstrate the pharmacy of the future and provide a safer environment.

Host
Jake Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Clinical Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad, Inc

Guest
Randy P. McDonough, BS, MS, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS
CEO, Towncrest Pharmacy Corp
CIO, Seguridad, Inc

Takeaways

1. "On the Run" allows pharmacists to become interventionists by thinking on their feet and elevating important information that is presented to them.
2. Hiring pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are passionate about the future of pharmacy, and who care about others, provides a safe environment to your pharmacy.
3. 10K reports that document clinical services, including immunizations, show value and bring profit to your pharmacy.

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• Feeling the Burn? The Impact of Burnout in the Pharmacy Profession 
• Leadership: A Pharmacist's Action Plan 
• What's Your Big Idea? 
• Alert Fatigue and Pharmacists' Liability 

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Repost Episode: A degree is pharmacy is incredibly versatile - from health-systems and long-term care facilities to community pharmacies and managed care - pharmacists are an integral part of healthcare. Sometimes, students may pursue additional training through residency programs.

How can you prepare your students?

• Pearl 1: Preparing for an interview.
• Pearl 2: How to quickly evaluate a resume/CV
• Pearl 3: Finding the first career step.

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Helping Your Students Get Ready for Interviews

• Help your students and residents shine during the interview process. Learn how to coach your students to success, including tips on etiquette and preparation. Additionally, you'll hear from both an experienced Residency Director and Student Preceptor about what's worked well for them. 

How to Evaluate a CV

• How can you help your students and residents prepare for their future? This brief course provides tips on how to critically review a CV. We spend time reviewing an example CV so you can learn what to look for and how to constructively share feedback. Leave this session with a tool to guide you through the process of CV evaluation.

Rotations and Residencies and Jobs, Oh My! Helping Your Students Decide What's Next

• This continuing pharmacy education course provides tools and guidance to preceptors and mentors on how to help students navigate their next steps into the profession. Participate in this course to discuss advanced pharmacy practice experience selection, position application preparation, and residency recruitment; as well as how to have meaningful discussions with students on how to manage these stressful processes and decisions.

Writing Letters of Recommendation that Matter

• It’s a common scenario: an APPE student is applying to residency programs and asks you as a preceptor to write a letter of recommendation. How do you write a letter that stands out? This course offers practical strategies for writing a letter that is personalized and impactful. Hear tips on what to ask from the student requesting a letter as well as how to handle a situation where you don’t feel comfortable writing a letter of recommendation.

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The United States Preventative Services Task Force has another update - this time focused on low-dose aspirin and primary prevention. Is your heart healthier WITHOUT a daily aspirin?


Guest:
John A Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad

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References and resources: 

• Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication 

Continuing Education Information:
Learning Objectives: 

1. Describe the new USPSTF guidelines for primary use of low dose aspirin in patients over age 60
2. Apply the guidelines to an individual patient and counsel on the risks and benefits of low dose aspirin

0.05 CEU | 0.5 Hrs
ACPE UAN: 0107-0000-21-388-H01-P
Initial release date: 11/29/21
Expiration date: 11/29/22
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Pharmacists currently fill multiple roles within the pharmacy. This can foster burnout and cause errors. As pharmacists, we should be focusing on patient interaction and drug therapy. But how do you take control of your environment so this can happen? In this week's conversation, Jake Galdo talks with Randy McDonough, co-owner of Towncrest Pharmacy Corp, about the future of pharmacy through incremental change.

Host
Jake Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Clinical Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad, Inc

Guest
Randy P. McDonough, BS, MS, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS
CEO, Towncrest Pharmacy Corp
CIO, Seguridad, Inc

Takeaways

• Pharmacists fill multiple roles within the pharmacy. This can foster burnout and cause errors.
• The pharmacist of the future is away from the counter and focused on patient interaction and the patient's drug therapy. 
• Start by taking control of your environment and determining which structural change needs to happen. This can feel like more work but in the long run and with small incremental changes, you will see success faster.

Looking for more education on incremental change? Take these courses!

• Technician Product Verification 
• Technician Immunization 
• Point of Care Testing 

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Burnout in healthcare is very real, now perhaps more than ever. And while giving back to the profession through precepting sounds noble, it can often be seen as just one more challenge on a long list. Tune into this episode to explore how to better balance work, life, and teaching in a way that is fulfilling for both you and your students.

Guest
Jennifer Chang, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Associate Professor | Director of Preceptor Development
University of Washington School of Pharmacy

Guest Experts:

Caitlin Blomquist, M.Ed.
Director of Advising and Student Success
Office of Professional Pharmacy Education
UW School of Pharmacy

Todd Winkler, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Clinical Pharmacist, Family Medicine Clinic and General Medicine at Swedish Medical Center (Cherry Hill) 

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It's Time to Be Thriving: Starting with the Whole You

• Many pharmacists are facing professional burnout due to increasing workload in practice and demands in their role as preceptors. Listen in to start transitioning your mindset from a survival mentality to experiencing a thriving pharmacy career by promoting a culture of well-being through precepting.

Feeling the Burn? The Impact of Burnout in the Pharmacy Profession

• Explore the research on causes, risk factors, and prevention of burnout in order to be more effective in your work.

Managing Time as a Preceptor

• Does precepting take time? Sure it does. But students can also be a great asset and contribute in significant ways to practice site initiatives and improvements when provided the right amount of structure, guidance, and autonomy. 

Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the  Northwest Pharmacy Experiential Consortium, who helped conceive the concept for this podcast and assisted it in its launch. Collaboration is one of CEimpact’s core values, and we are grateful for their partnership.

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A recent case control study evaluated adverse effects on glycemic control secondary to cholesterol lowering statin medications. Listen in as we evaluate the risk versus benefit of statin therapy in persons with diabetes.  

Redeem your CPE or CME credit here!

• Claim CPE (Pharmacist Members) 
• Claim CME

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References and resources: Mansi IA, Chansard M, Lingvay I, et al. Association of Statin Therapy Initiation With Diabetes Progression: A Retrospective Matched-Cohort Study. JAMA Intern Med. Published online October 04, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.5714

Learning Objectives: 

1. Describe the proposed mechanism by which statins would worsen blood glucose control

2. Discuss confounders in the study that examined the association of statin use and worsening diabetes control.

Continuing Education Information:
0.05 CEU | 0.5 Hrs
ACPE UAN: 0107-0000-21-365-H01-P
Initial release date: 11/22/21
Expiration date: 11/22/22

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With each patient who comes through your pharmacy, you want to give them the quality of care they deserve. Knowing a patient's serum creatinine allows you to ensure your patient's kidneys are fully functioning and helps you evaluate treatment plans to provide the best care. In this week's conversation, Jake Galdo talks with Courtney Tigges, a Clinical Pharmacist at Towncrest Pharmacy and PGY-1 Resident at The University of Iowa about the importance of documenting your patient's serum creatinine to provide quality care in your pharmacy.

Host
Jake Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Clinical Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad, Inc

Guest
Courtney Tigges, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, Towncrest Pharmacy
PGY-1 Resident, The University of Iowa

Takeaways

1. Courtney's residency project is gathering serum creatinine for patients over 50 to ensure it is within range and documenting it in the patient record.
2. This provides collaborative care by building trust and relationship with both physicians and patients in your practice. 
3. You can start by having these conversations with your patients and documenting their serum creatinine.

Looking for more on improving patient care? 
Take this course, It's Time to Deprescribe!

• Pharmacist
• Technician

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Repost Episode: Teaching is hard. Learn the what, why, and how of the Socratic Method and how using this process may aid preceptors in understanding what a student truly knows - and where more focus needs to be placed. Help your students think better with Socratic questioning!

Click here to download the Socratic Questioning handout!

Pearl 1: Describe the Socratic Method
Pearl 2: Identify reasons the Socratic Method is a useful precepting tool
Pearl 3: Implement the Socratic Method while precepting students

Guests:
Tracy Pettinger, PharmD
Clinical Associate Professor
Idaho State University

Lindsay Davis, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP, ASH-CHC, TTS
Professor
Midwestern University

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Learn to Teach in Practice: A Curriculum for the Clinician Educator
Do you want to advance your role as an educator in your practice setting?
Learn to Teach in Practice provides a pathway to explore, describe, apply, analyze and reflect on the role of the pharmacist as an educator in the pharmacy profession.

The Eleven Habits of Highly Effective Preceptors
Why is self-assessment important for preceptors, and how does it improve teaching? The Habits of Preceptors Rubric was designed to provide a robust assessment of an individual preceptor's habits. This course offers an introduction to this rubric as well as guidance on completing a self-assessment exercise which will create an actionable, impactful plan for continuous preceptor development.

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The TOGETHER Study, published in Lancet, evaluated the role of fluvoxamine in the treatment of COVID-19. Is this a real GameChanger, or just another dud? Lay media has been picking up the study - listen to Geoff and Jake break down the article to help healthcare providers give evidence-based recommendations.

Guest
John A Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad

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• Claim CPE Credit
• Claim CME Credit

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• Join for CPE Credit
• Join for CME Credit

References and resources: Reis G, Dos Santos Moreira-Silva EA, Silva DCM, et al. TOGETHER investigators. Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of emergency care and hospitalisation among patients with COVID-19: the TOGETHER randomised, platform clinical trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Oct 27:S2214-109X(21)00448-4. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00448-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34717820; PMCID: PMC8550952.

Additional Resources:
WSJ Opinion on Fluvoxamine
WSJ Letter-to-Editor

Continuing Education Information:
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the TOGETHER study
2. Discuss the role of Drug-Drug Interactions with fluvoxamine

0.05 CEU | 0.5 Hrs
ACPE UAN: 0107-0000-21-394-H01-P
Initial release date: 11/15/21
Expiration date: 11/15/22
Dr. Galdo reports that he is on a speaker's bureau for Novo Nordisk.
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A critical part of a pharmacist's job is ensuring the proper dose of a medication is provided to patients. They can do this by checking the dose with the patient's weight, especially with pediatric patients. If the dose is incorrect, it can cause adverse effects of an overdose or not work effectively because it is under-dosed.  In this week's conversation, Jake Galdo talks with Kelsey Holder, a Clinical Pharmacist at SEMO Rx Pharmacies and PGY-1 Resident with the University of Missouri - Kansas City about the importance of collecting pediatric weight to ensure better patient care.

Host
Jake Galdo, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP
Course Content and Developer, CEimpact
Clinical Pharmacist, Ross Bridge Pharmacy
CEO, Seguridad, Inc

Guest
Kelsey Holder, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, SEMO Rx Pharmacies
PGY-1 Resident, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Takeaways

1. Kelsey's project is implementing a workflow change for her pharmacy staff to focus on pediatric weight to ensure prescriptions can be processed accurately.  
2. Checking pediatric weight and verifying a dose is important because an overdose or under-dose can cause harm to the patient.
3. You can start this in your pharmacy by educating yourself and your pharmacy staff on the importance of having patient weight on file and ensuring the dose is correct based on weight

How to Start

1. Look at the patient's profile to determine if the patient's weight is on file
2. Talk to your pharmacy staff on the importance of having patient weight on files + making sure that dosing is correct based on weight

Check out Choose My Pharmacy to begin bringing back quality to your patient care. Choose My Pharmacy™ is about you, a stakeholder in healthcare, becoming empowered to understand community pharmacy quality. 

Looking for more education on pediatric patients and using pediatric weight base skills? Take these courses!

• Pediatric Pearls for Pharmacy Technicians
• Test and Treat: Group A Streptococcus (Pharmacist) 
• Test and Treat: Group A Streptococcus (Technician) 

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