COVID-19 booster vaccination in rural community pharmacies.

This study assessed rural community pharmacists' attitudes about COVID-19 vaccine booster doses and explored whether rural pharmacies offered these booster doses. Of the 80 rural Southeastern U.S.

Marketing mobile influenza vaccine clinics on a college campus.

Background: Influenza vaccination rates fall below public health targets. Compared with the general population, vaccination rates on college campuses are even lower. Since 2013, the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and University Health Center (UHC) Pharmacy have collaborated to increase access to influenza vaccines by holding clinics at locations across campus.

A Precepting-Focused Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience in Academia.

Description Of The Opportunity: Traditional advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) in academia provide students exposure to job responsibilities and expectations of pharmacy faculty members. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the development and structure of a precepting-focused academic APPE, APPE student perceptions of the experience, and introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) student perceptions of being precepted by APPE students.

Innovation: An academic pharmacy APPE was developed to emphasize preceptor development in addition to traditional academic pharmacy topics and responsibilities.

Curricular Exposure to Postgraduate Residency Training Through an Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience.

To evaluate the impact of a residency-focused introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) on student perceived knowledge of and attitudes toward postgraduate residency training. Second- and third-year student pharmacists completed a required four-hour experience at a residency training site. Students completed a five-item survey before and after the experience, indicating their perceived knowledge of residency training components as well as their own postgraduate plans.

Vial-to-Pen: Community-Based Pharmacists Converting Insulin Regimens.

Objective: To describe a vial-to-pen conversion program driven by community-based pharmacists and determine conversion success rate.

Methods: A report based on prescription claims was generated and identified 200 prescriptions filled for an insulin vial product and syringes. Patients were contacted by community-based pharmacists during a five-month period and were informed of the availability and potential benefits of insulin pen delivery systems (IPDS).

Patient perceptions of student pharmacist-run mobile influenza vaccination clinics.

Objective: To assess patients' perceptions of student pharmacist-run mobile influenza immunization clinics, including satisfaction, comfort, comparison to other experiences, and the views of pharmacists as immunizers.

Methods: A 7-item survey was designed to assess patient satisfaction with receiving influenza vaccinations from student pharmacists, to compare the experience with vaccines received in nonpharmacy settings, and to determine the impact of the experience on patients' views of pharmacist-administered vaccines. The anonymous survey was provided to patients in the postvaccination monitoring area for campus and non-campus mobile clinics from September through October of 2017.

Assessment of Emergency Preparedness Modules in Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences.

Objective. To determine the impact of emergency preparedness simulations in mass triage and mass dispensing on student pharmacist performance and perceived competency when assuming pharmacist roles in disaster situations. Design.