Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacists practicing in community pharmacies in the state of Nebraska.

Background: The rapid increase in COVID-19 combined with uncertainty surrounding transmission and treatment protocols resulted in unprecedented burnout amongst health care workers. As other health care workers scrambled to support patients, community pharmacists quickly responded to the pandemic by extending their services. This constantly changing environment amongst other factors created a high degree of psychological burden associated with COVID-19 for pharmacists.

Integrating Patient Safety Discussions with First-Year Doctor of Pharmacy Students in a Skills Lab Course.

The patient safety problem has been well established for over 20 years in the United States (U.S.), and there is a recognized focus on ensuring that health professions' trainees receive explicit education in various patient safety principles and practices.

Effect of a Financial Education and Coaching Program for Low-Income, Single Mother Households on Child Health Outcomes.

The financial difficulties of parents have a negative impact on the health of their children. This problem is more pronounced in single mother families. There is limited research on low-income, single mothers and how interventions to help them address financial difficulties may also benefit their children.

Enhancing application and long-term retention of clinical knowledge using an extracurricular non-credit course.

Background And Purpose: Curricular overload in doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) programs is necessitating innovative approaches to support student learning. The purpose of this study was to describe the design, delivery, and assessment of a non-credit extracurricular course that reinforced foundational concepts through the application of learning in case-based activities.

Educational Activity And Setting: A 14-week extracurricular course, designed using principles of spaced repetition and interleaving in the context of case-based exercises, was offered to third-year PharmD students.

A Cross-Sectional Survey Study Examining the Provision of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Education in U.S. Doctor of Pharmacy Programs.

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is used to help patients with diabetes and their healthcare providers more effectively manage care. CGM use is expanding to all healthcare settings where pharmacists practice and new pharmacy graduates may increasingly be asked to assist patients utilizing CGM devices and assess diabetes management through the interpretation of CGM data. The purpose of this study was to describe CGM education across Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.

Student Perceptions of an Interprofessional Short Course Designed to Increase Awareness of Human Trafficking.

Human trafficking is a global problem with significant impacts on victims' physical and emotional health. Many health care professionals lack human trafficking knowledge, leading to missed opportunities for intervention. This cross-sectional study used evaluation data from a short course on human trafficking to evaluate the course's perceived impact on students.

A MIXED-METHODS EVALUATION OF STANDALONE PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD USE BY PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES.

Background: Self-management of diabetes is key for achieving positive clinical outcomes, with personal health records (PHRs) proposed as a patient-centered technology for facilitating self-care. However, few studies have described patient engagement with a PHR, including facilitators and barriers to use from the perspective of actual users.

Objectives: To compare use of a standalone PHR by patients with Type 2 diabetes to usual care through assessment of self-care behaviors, and short-term impact on social cognitive outcomes and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

Independent community pharmacies' provision of enhanced services: A mixed methods approach.

Background: The pharmacy profession continues to broaden toward a patient-centered care practice. Pharmacy members of formal enhanced services networks are embracing this practice. However, descriptions of how pharmacies adopt a patient-centered care practice by providing enhanced services are not widely known.

Clinical impact of a pharmacist + health coach chronic disease management program in a rural free clinic.

Objectives: Recent data have demonstrated benefits of pharmacist-led protocols for chronic disease state management in the primary care setting. Health coaching has also been shown to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs. A program was initiated in August 2017 at a rural, free clinic to provide team-based, patient-centered care management through the use of pharmacist-provider collaborative practice and health coaching for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.

A Descriptive Study Examining Trends in Pharmacist-Authored Original Research Publications in the from 2000 to 2019.

Pharmacists are expected to participate in the conduction of research to advance the profession and health care broadly. Additional opportunities for pharmacist research engagement have emerged with the increased integration of clinically trained pharmacists into interprofessional care teams. Research conducted over the past four decades has demonstrated an increasing trend of pharmacist-authored publications in medical journals.

Report of the 2018-2019 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee.

The 2018-2019 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee (RGAC) was charged with critically evaluating the leadership development support necessary for pharmacy researchers, including postdoctoral trainees, to develop the skills needed to build and sustain successful research programs and analyzing how well those needs are being met by existing programs both within AACP and at other organizations. The RGAC identified a set of skills that could reasonably be expected to provide the necessary foundation to successfully lead a research team and mapped these skills to the six domains of graduate education in the pharmaceutical sciences established by the 2016-2017 RGAC (Table 1). In addition, the RGAC identified competency in team science and the bench-to-bedside-to-beyond translational spectrum as being critical elements of research leadership.

National survey of diabetes self-management program coordinators views about pharmacists' roles in diabetes education.

Objectives: To examine the viewpoints of diabetes self-management training (DSMT) program coordinators about the roles and engagement of pharmacists who participate in DSMT programs, and the engagement between community pharmacies and DSMT programs by developing and administering a nationwide survey.

Design: A mixed-methods exploratory sequential design; initial qualitative phase followed by a quantitative phase. Six in-depth interviews of DSMT program coordinators and intensive literature review informed the development of a 20-item survey instrument.

Error types with use of medication-related technology: A mixed methods research study.

Background: Health information technology has been integrated throughout the medication use process to enhance safety, quality, and care efficiency. However, technologies have the potential to eliminate or reduce, but also create some new types of errors.

Objective: Assess specific error types before and after the incorporation of two different health information technologies (HITs), e-prescribing and automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), into pharmacists' daily work.

Health Information Technology Use and Patient Safety: Study of Pharmacists in Nebraska.

This study aimed to describe the impact of 13 different health information technologies (HITs) on patient safety across pharmacy practice settings from the viewpoint of the working pharmacist. A cross-sectional mixed methods survey of all licensed practicing pharmacists in 2008 in Nebraska ( = 2195) was developed, pilot-tested and IRB approved. One-fourth responded (24.

A Pharmacist's Role in a Dental Clinic: Establishing a Collaborative and Interprofessional Education Site.

Background: Dental patients often have comorbidities and take multiple medications, some of which could impact their dental health and treatment. A pharmacist in a dental clinic can assist with the gathering, documentation and evaluation of a dental patient's medication history as it pertains to their dental visit and overall health.

Purpose: To develop and implement a collaborative and interprofessional education program with a pharmacist providing services in a dental school clinic.

An online health informatics elective course for doctor of pharmacy students.

Objective: To describe the development and assessment of an online elective health informatics course and determine its potential for universal integration into doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curricula.

Design: A 2-credit hour online elective course was developed and offered to all PharmD students; voiced-over Powerpoint lectures were used to deliver content.

Assessment: Assessment of student performance was measured using quantitative metrics via discussion questions, quizzes, written papers, and examinations.

A qualitative study of how patients with type 2 diabetes use an electronic stand-alone personal health record.

Background: Patient use of personal health records (PHRs) to manage their health information has been proposed to enhance patient knowledge and empower patients to make changes in their self-care behaviors. However, there remains a gap in understanding about patients' actual PHR use behaviors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how patients with type 2 diabetes used a PHR to manage their diabetes-related health information for self-care.

A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Nurse Engagement With Electronic Health Records and E-Prescribing.

There is a national focus on the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) with electronic prescribing (e-Rx) for the goal of providing safe and quality care. Although there is a large body of literature on the benefits of adoption, there is also increasing evidence of the unintentional consequences resulting from use. As little is known about how use of EHR with e-Rx systems affects the roles and responsibilities of nurses, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe how nurses adapt to using an EHR with e-Rx system in a rural ambulatory care practice.

Ensuring effective medication reconciliation in home healthcare.

A patient was readmitted two days after discharge with severe hypoglycemia. The treating team discharged the patient on a new insulin regimen without realizing that the patient also had insulin 70/30 at home. The patient continued to take her previous regimen as well as the new one, and was found unresponsive by her husband.

Patient safety problem identification and solution sharing among rural community pharmacists.

Objectives: To implement a communication network for safety problem identification and solution sharing among rural community pharmacists and to report participating pharmacists' perceived value and impact of the network on patient safety after 1 year of implementation.

Design: Action research study.

Setting: Rural community pharmacies in Nebraska from January 2010 to April 2011.

Patient safety perspectives of providers and nurses: the experience of a rural ambulatory care practice using an EHR with E-prescribing.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe safety improvements and concerns indicated by providers and nurses in a rural community ambulatory care practice using an electronic health record with an e-prescribing feature (EHR with eRx).

Methods: Two focus groups were conducted; 1 with providers and the other with nurses. Participants responded to questions and discussed their perceptions of safety improvements and concerns with use of an EHR with eRx.

Exploring care transitions from patient, caregiver, and health-care provider perspectives.

Care transitions involve coordination of patient care across multiple care settings. Many problems occur during care transitions resulting in negative patient outcomes and unnecessary readmissions. The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of care transitions from patient, caregiver, and health-care provider perspectives in a single metropolitan Midwest city.

How baccalaureate nursing students value an interprofessional patient safety course for professional development.

Nursing students need foundation knowledge and skills to keep patients safe in continuously changing health care environments. A gap exists in our knowledge of the value students place on interprofessional patient safety education. The purpose of this exploratory, mixed methods study was to understand nursing students' attitudes about the value of an interprofessional patient safety course to their professional development and its role in health professions curricula.