PHT-193: Pharmacy Externship

School
Health and Human Services
Division
Health Careers
Department
Pharmacy Technician
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Pharmacy Technician
Course Number
193
Course Title
Pharmacy Externship
Credit Hours
3.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
240.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
240.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Pre-requisites
HCS-131, BBA-110, PHT-125, PHT-165, PHT-119, PHT-175, PHT-178
Catalog Course Description

Students are assigned to selected health care facilities for directed clinical practice in pharmacy technology. This is a required, supervised learning experience under the direction of a pharmacist. Rotation selections include hospital, home infusion, compounding, and long term care pharmacy locations. The rotations include a ten to twelve week spring, summer, or fall session. Time scheduled at the site will be twenty-four or thirty-two hours a week.

The ten or twelve week externship rotation begins in May, July, or August. Successful completion of all pharmacy technician course work is required before assignment to specific hospital and home infusion/long term care pharmacy rotations.

Goals, Topics, and Objectives

Core Course Topics
  1. Telephone Etiquette
  2. Pharmaceutical Calculations
  3. Home Infusion Quality Assurance
  4. Professional Behaviors
  5. Organizational Techniques: Manual and Electronic
  6. Controlled Substance Records
  7. IV Admixtures
  8. Unit Dose and Bulk Item Distribution
  9. Extemporaneous Compunding
  10. Electronic Third Party Insurance Billing
  11. Physician Orders Interpretation
Core Course Learning Objectives (Separated)
  1. Demonstrate proper telephone etiquette to obtain or provide necessary information or route a call or message to the appropriate person in hospital and long term care facility.
  2. Demonstrate pharmaceutical calculations accurately to complete a hospital or home infusion prescription order.
  3. Demonstrate how to locate a specific piece of information from the electronic patient profile for hospital and long term care facilities.
  4. Demonstrate professional behaviors required for hospital, home infusion and long term care pharmacies.
  5. Describe required Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for home infusion admixture.
  6. Demonstrate proper USP 797 procedures in preparation of IV admixtures for hospital, home infusion, and long term care.
  7. Perform proper aseptic technique in preparing chemotherapy agents in hospital and home infusion settings.
  8. Demonstrate procedures necessary to maintain third-party insurance forms and record electronic data for billing purposes.
  9. Demonstrate organizational techniques in completing inventory tasks for hospital and home infusion manually and electronically.
  10. Demonstrate environmental monitoring for quality assurance (QA) in home infusion pharmacy.
  11. Interpret procedures to maintain complete records in the distribution of controlled substances accurately.
  12. Describe the mandatory policies and procedures involved in hospital and long term care pharmacy extemporaneous compounding.
  13. Demonstrates competency in preparing unit doses and bulk items for dispensing in hospital pharmacy.
  14. Interpret physician orders accurately for hospital, home infusion, and long term care facilities.

Assessment and Requirements

Assessment of Academic Achievement
A clinical evaluation summary is completed. Assessment of academic achievement is determined by combining two evaluation reports, Affective Evaluation (Appendix C) and Clinical Performance Evaluation (Appendix D) in all rotation environments (hospital, home infusion and long term care) attended by the student to equal the required contact hours.
General Course Requirements and Recommendations
  1. Students must be present for all scheduled clinical rotations. Missed days must be made up before the end of the rotation.
  2. The clinical site and the program director must be notified at least a half hour before the rotation begins if the student misses a rotation.
  3. Attendance logs will be completed at the start and end of each day the student attends the site. The supervisor will initial the log time for each entry.
  4. Clinical Logs are to be completed by each student at the end of each clinical day to provide a basis for evaluating their competency and progress in the clinical rotation. The log will be turned in to the site supervisor at the end of each week for review and comment on the student's progress. The supervisor will meet with each student at the end of the week. The weekly logs will be mailed or faxed to the program director every two weeks.
  5. The performance evaluation reports: Affective Domain and Clinical Performance Evaluation, will be shared with the students at the end of the rotation. Comments are recommended as feedback for the student and site supervisor. All reports are retrieved by the program director or clinical assistant at the end of the student’s rotation during the Training Experience Review.
  6. Picture identification is required for admittance to the pharmacy externship site.
  7. The clinical site dress code must be followed according to the Site Information Form. Students must comply with dress code to complete rotation successfully.
  8. Students must pass each externship rotation site with a grade “C” or better.
  9. Students who are not performing at an acceptable level will be issued a Performance Improvement Action Plan. Three areas are determined for improvement by a designated date and signed by the site supervisor, student, and program director.
Texts

None Required

Effective Term
Fall 2019