Posts Tagged ‘Medication Use Management’
Medication Use Management Wrap Up
Posted on: July 15, 2009
Today, I attended didactic sessions as the final requirement for the Medication Use Management rotation. Although the material could have been really “dry”, Richard and Lara managed to make the session interactive and more interesting. We talked about different topics such as restrictions, drug shortages and formulary changes and applied real-life examples. A few issues that we discussed were the removal of nystatin powder of the market and formulary change from tinzaparin to dalteparin. We also looked at the CADTH website and looked through the Common Drug Review (CDR) database. A few things I learned about from the session and the rotation that I did not know before were:
- The P & T Committee makes recommendations (to add or not to add a drug to formulary), however HAMAC has the ultimate power to approve it.
- The Antibiotic Review Subcommittee sometimes makes recommendations to the P & T Committee.
- The P & T Committee does not just deal involve the formulary. Other issues they are responsible for are medication safety, adverse drug event monitoring, medication error prevention, etc.
MUM!
Posted on: July 8, 2009
I have just finished three days of my Medication Use Management (MUM) Rotation. Instead of making me read many documents, my preceptors (Lara Campbell and Richard Cormier) have assigned me a project. I am helping them re-organize them replace some of the therapeutic substitutions that will be removed at VIHA with more user-friend charts. These charts will be used not as therapeutic substitution but as a “guide” so pharmacists can use their professional judgment to dispense equivalent products. So far, I have made charts for calcium salts, iron salts and hemorrhoidal products. I will try to post a chart if I am allowed to!
Next week, we will have didactic sessions on topics such as formulary, P & T committees, and databases such as CDR( Common Drug Review).
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