Evolution and Validation of Practice Standards, Training, and Professional Development
Learning Objectives
Describe landmark events in the evolution of critical
care pharmacy as a specialty, including summariz-
ing key published documents and primary evidence
validating critical care pharmacy as a specialty.
caring for critically ill patients.
Outline criteria for credentialing, conventional
training pathways and mentorship, and standards
of practice for clinical pharmacy in the critical care
practice environment.
Develop an approach to conducting a gap analysis
relative to the principles and values of team-based
care in a local critical care practice environment.
Develop an approach to lifelong professional learn-
ing to maintain competency in critical care pharmacy
practice using the principles of continuing personal
professional development.
Identify the avenues and processes for contributing
to the critical care body of knowledge as a presenter,
author, or peer reviewer.
Advanced cardiac life support
| ASHP | American Society of Health-System |
|---|
Pharmacists
BPS
Board of Pharmacy Specialties
CE
Continuing education
CPD
Continuing professional development
CPE
Continuing pharmacy education
ICU
Intensive care unit
NCS
Neurocritical Care Society
PDP
Personal development plan
| SCCM | Society of Critical Care Medicine |
|---|
Self-Assessment Questions
Answers and explanations to these questions can be
found at the end of the chapter.
Which is the journal that, in 1982, was the first to
publish a critical care therapeutics column?
sive care unit (ICU) was outlined by two task forces
focused on models of critical care delivery, the
definition of an intensivist, and the practice of criti-
cal care medicine within three different proposed
models in 2001. Which best depicts the professional
organization that formed these two task forces?
Institute of Medicine).
(ACCP).
(ACCM).
(SCCM).
Which best depicts the medical event that has been
documented to be associated with a lower mortal-
ity in ICUs with clinical pharmacists compared with
ICUs without clinical pharmacists?
Which best describes what is deemed a core knowl-
edge base area for pharmacists caring for critically
ill patients?
Which most accurately reflects the journal that pub-
lished a landmark study documenting a decrease in
preventable adverse drug reactions after the inclu-
sion of pharmacists on interdisciplinary medical
rounds?