UC San Francisco Week 6 Drug Information and Clinical Pharmacy Reflection Paper

UC San Francisco Week 6 Drug Information and Clinical Pharmacy Reflection Paper

Reflect on the content assigned for Week #7 using the below questions as a guide, at a minimum:

What made you most curious about this week’s content?
What was different that you thought?
What has been the significance of the “Ninth-Floor Project”?
Research and describe the history of either drug information provision or unit-dose dispensing.
What do you think about the content of the two posted articles? Are the concepts presented still relevant today?
How important do think pharmacists obtaining “Provider Status” is?
What can we do today, similar to the “Ninth-Floor Project”, to move the practice of pharmacy forward more rapidly?
Please use 12-point, Times New Roman font with 1.5 or 2.0 spacing.

Minimum 2 pages of reflection.

At least 3 cited sources.

Week #6 Materials

Part 1, 1850 to 1990 (Drug Information, Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Care)

Please read, view, and reflect on the following materials:

Dr. Robert McCarthy PowerPoint (document attached)

AP – pages 1-10; 11-15

Can be found at the following URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=gwooeCp0eEQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=9780931292392&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVxpnNk4jmAhUxw1kKHc7KBuIQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=9780931292392&f=false (Links to an external site.)

KU – pages 317-322 (document attached)

1950–1965: Setting the Stage – History of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (UCSF)

Can be found at the following URL: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/history-cp/1950-1965 (Links to an external site.)

1965–1972: The Ninth Floor Pharmacy Project (UCSF)

Can be found at the following URL: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/history-cp/1965-1972 (Links to an external site.)

Part 2, 1990 to present (Disease State Management, MTM, and Provider Status)

Please read, view, and reflect on the following materials:

Dr. Charles Hepler and Dr. Linda Strand Article

֎ Opportunities and Responsibilities in Pharmaceutical Care available at the following URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20838625_Opportunities_and_Responsibilities_in_Pharmaceutical_Care (Links to an external site.)

Dr. Richard Penna Article

֎ Pharmaceutical Care: Pharmacy’s Mission for the 1990s (document attached).