The development of a competency framework for pharmacists providing cancer services

Carrington, Christine; Weir, J. B. de V.; Smith, Peter J.

doi:10.1177/1078155210365582

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“…[2][3][4][5][6][7] Acceleration of medical and technology growth further makes a case for constant improvement of skills and evaluation of competencies of pharmacists. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Traditional educational programs in Serbia were mainly based on improvement of theoretical knowledge necessary for provision of pharmaceutical care, but the E&T programs based on continuous professional advancement and competency-based approach can help develop the modern skills, attitudes and capabilities necessary for delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care. Conventionally, pharmaceutical care in Serbia has been based exclusively on the knowledge gained during the Master's Studies and programs of continual pharmacy education.…”

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Evaluation of Competences at the Community Pharmacy Settings

Stojkov¹,

Tadić²,

Crnjanski³

et al. 2014

IJPER

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The General Level Framework (GLF) document provides a model to be used in evaluating and upgrading of pharmacists' competences currently used in many countries. This study has several Objectives: To show the adaptation process of the GLF document to the Serbian pharmaceutical work practices and regulations; to illustrate the implementation of the GLF document; to evaluate and monitor the development of pharmacists' competencies. Materials and Methods: The adaptation, analysis, validation and adjustment of the GLF document were conducted using the expert panel method. The implementation was conducted on a sample of pharmacists employed in Subotica Pharmacy chain. Later, the evaluation of the pharmacists' competencies was performed at two observation points (at the beginning of the study and after 6 months) by the team of seven GLF members. Results and Discussion: The GLF document was reviewed by 14 members of the expert panel. During the content validation performed at the expert panel meeting, all competencies stated in the GLF document were rated according to their importance with an average grade of between 8.26 and 9.80 and thus reached a consensus regarding all 26 competencies. During the evaluation of the pharmacists' competences, the greatest improvement after the second observation was noted in the "Patient consent" competency, followed by the "Drug history", "The prescription is legal", "Health needs", "Provision of written information" and "Assessing outcomes of contributions" competencies. All the competencies in the GLF document were accepted for the implementation in the Subotica Pharmacy chain. Six of the competencies there was a significant improvement observed.

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Evaluation of Competences at the Community Pharmacy Settings

Stojkov¹,

Tadić²,

Crnjanski³

et al. 2014

IJPER

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“…A number of specialty pharmacy groups in Australia, including cancer care, infectious diseases, cardiology, emergency medicine, palliative care and paediatrics, have adapted the CoDEG frameworks to their own specialties. Their use to date has focused on individual professional development rather than assessment.…”

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What does advanced practice mean to Australian paediatric pharmacists? A focus group study

Stacey

Coombes

Wainwright

et al. 2014

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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“…136 This study supports the use of these competency evaluation tools in specialised environments, with ongoing work required to develop supplementary documents to describe additional or differing requirements in specialty areas.…”

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Advanced practice in paediatric pharmacy: What is it, how do you get there, and what does it mean for children?

Stacey¹

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The quality and safety of medicines use is as important in paediatrics as in adult medicine, and closely linked to the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of health professionals responsible for patient care. The aim of this research was to investigate advanced paediatric pharmacy practice; how to develop and assess advanced skills; and how these skills improve outcomes for children.Prevention of adverse medication events (AMEs) is the most researched pharmacy impact on patient outcomes. However, there is limited evidence in paediatrics. The first phase of this research investigated AMEs in children, with the hypothesis that: Voluntary reports of AMEs can be used to identify trends over time in response to safety improvement initiatives, and identify associated skills required of health practitioners.The first component of this phase reviewed six months of potential and actual AMEs identified from three databases: clinical incident reports, pharmacist intervention reports and administrative coding using the International Classification of Diseases 10 th Revision (ICD-10). Analysis identified 447 individual AMEs. Little duplication between data sources was found. ICD-10 coding identified the most cases of harm, and intervention and incident reports identified the most cases of error. ICD-10 events rarely involved error and were time-consuming to retrieve, hence this method was not used in subsequent research. The second phase of research tested the hypothesis that:iii Paediatric hospital pharmacists value formal recognition of advanced pharmacy practice, can describe the characteristics of advanced practitioners and identify preferred methods of assessment of advanced practice.Four focus groups, involving 31 Australian paediatric pharmacists, concluded that advanced practice should be formally recognised, and include a foundation in clinical practice, together with education, research and service improvement outside the institution. Multiple methods of assessment were recommended; most preferred were direct observation of practice, peer review and portfolio review. Knowledge of paediatric diseases and drug handling, and skills in communication with children and families, were important.The third phase of the project reviewed two existing datasets to test two hypotheses, the first of which was: Pharmacist interventions can document progression to advanced practice.Six hundred interventions recorded by four pharmacists from one paediatric hospital were retrospectively reviewed over three separate periods from 2005 to 2012. Skills demonstrated in these interventions were rated using a pilot scale from 1 to 5, representing skills typical of intern pharmacists through to advanced practice. Skills increased over time, with more Level 3-5 interventions recorded in the later time periods, and mean skill level increasing from 1.9 to 2.6 (p<0.01).The second hypothesis in this phase was: Training and development priorities in paediatric pharmacy can be identified by direct observation of pharmacists working ...

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The development of a competency framework for pharmacists providing cancer services

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

Evaluation of Competences at the Community Pharmacy Settings

Evaluation of Competences at the Community Pharmacy Settings

What does advanced practice mean to Australian paediatric pharmacists? A focus group study

Advanced practice in paediatric pharmacy: What is it, how do you get there, and what does it mean for children?

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