Abstract
Background and purpose: The objective of this study is to explore the impact of an educational intervention including (1) collaborative practice agreement (CPA)-focused lecture and (2) a student project in partnership with a community-based pharmacy on dissemination and implementation of CPAs in community pharmacy practice. Educational activity and setting: A CPA-focused classroom lecture and related project were given to five sequential years of second-year pharmacy students enrolled in a community pharmacy elective course. Community pharmacist feedback provided at the completion of the project was compared to present-day data collected via telephone survey. Responses for each survey question were summarized using frequencies, and chi-square analysis was conducted to assess the association between pharmacist perceptions at the time of the project vs. the present day. Findings: Forty-seven projects representing 47 unique CPAs were completed over five sequential years of the course. The most commonly targeted disease states by CPAs were influenza/streptococcus pharyngitis (25.5%), therapeutic interchange (6.4%), oral contraceptives (6.4%), and tobacco cessation (6.4%). Pharmacists noted that students facilitated their progress toward CPA implementation by serving as a means for CPA law education (23.4%) and by saving time in CPA development (12.8%). This study demonstrated that a student project partnering with a local community pharmacy improved knowledge dissemination but did not have any direct impact on implementation of CPAs in a community pharmacy. However, students may have a role in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices, such as CPAs, when appropriately matched to setting-specific implementation barriers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1522-1528 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Collaborative practice agreements, dissemination
- Community partnerships
- Community pharmacy, pharmacy education
- Implementation
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Student pharmacist
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacy