Impact of Live Training on Medication Errors in a Community-Based Pharmacy Setting.

Objective: To compare community-based pharmacy medication errors before and after a one-hour live interactive training session for both pharmacists and technicians.

Methods: A one group pre-post intervention design study was conducted in 20 community-based pharmacies in a district of a large national community pharmacy chain. A one-hour live, interactive session was developed based on incident reports and medication error trends including medication error definition, ways in which medication errors occur, strategies for mitigating errors, information about human error, and methods and habits to improve patient safety.

Impact of Adherence Education and Monitoring on Community Pharmacy Performance Scores and Patient Satisfaction.

Background: Adherence, specifically to noninsulin diabetes medications, statins, and renin-angiotensin system antagonists (i.e. angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), and aliskiren), is a measure tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to give Medicare Part D plans a star rating; pharmacies are impacted by these star ratings.

Impact of pharmacist counseling to enhance the accessibility of naloxone nasal spray to patients in a community pharmacy setting.

Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines recommend naloxone for every high-dose opioid prescription; in 2018, only 1 naloxone prescription was dispensed for every 69 high-dose opioid prescriptions. In Virginia, strategies for creating awareness and availability include the REVIVE! training and the standing protocol for pharmacists to dispense naloxone.

Objectives: To evaluate if a proactive offer for counseling by pharmacists improves the percent change of patients who receive a prescription for naloxone nasal spray compared with the previous year's naloxone nasal spray fill history and to determine if the pharmacist's counseling affects a patient's confidence with opioid overdose and naloxone use.

Pharmacists' comfort level and knowledge about prescribing hormonal contraception in a supermarket chain pharmacy.

Objectives: To compare community pharmacists' comfort levels and knowledge prescribing hormonal contraception before and after a training session and to identify perceived barriers and resources needed to prescribe hormonal contraception.

Methods: In this pre-post convenience sample survey study, all 350 pharmacists in the Mid-Atlantic Division of Kroger (which spans parts of Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia) were surveyed before and after a training session. The survey consisted of several sections: 1) questions rating comfort, 2) knowledge-based multiple-choice assessment questions, 3) perceptions of barriers and resources needed to prescribe hormonal contraception, and 4) demographics.