BCACP 2023 - Managing a Clinical Practice Questions With Complete Solutions

Policy & Procedures Review correct answer: - Review yearly >> assign reviewing responsibility to those who perform the functions in the policies Minimum Current Standards of a Pharmacist Ambulatory Care Practice correct answer: 1. Collect: Gathering patient information from the medical record and interviewing patients or caregivers to obtain pertinent information needed for patient care 2. Assess: Assessing the legal and clinical appropriateness of the medication regimen to identify, resolve, and prevent medication-related problems 3. Plan: Participate with health care team members and the patient in medication and disease-state therapy decision-making and development of patient goals and plans of care. 4. Implement: Initiate the plan, including educating patients and caregivers on disease, medication therapy, adherence, and preventive health 5. Follow up, monitor, and evaluate: Monitoring the effect of medication therapy on patient health outcomes 6. Documenting and communicating services provided, as well as creating and maintaining medication profiles, medication-related plans of care, and other needed patient care documentation Collaborative Practice Agreement Review/Update correct answer: Yearly or as dictated by state laws, rules & regulations Features of effective teams correct answer: 1. Team leadership. Team leaders coordinate tasks of team members, plan daily work, are concerned with team member development, motivation, and establishing a positive atmosphere. Team leaders are usually physicians. 2. Mutual performance monitoring. Team members all require sufficient understanding of the environment within the workplace in order to monitor other team members such that any member is able to step in and assist when task overload or lapses are identified. 3. Backup behavior. Team members have sufficient understanding of others' tasks to enable effective redistribution of workload or needed support with the variances in service demand. 4. Adaptability. Adaptability enables the team to respond to changes in environment in order to change patient management and work flow as needed to maintain patient care and the desired outcomes. 5. Team orientation. Willingness to take others' ideas and perspectives into account and a belief that team goals should be aligned with what is best for the patient, e.g., patient centeredness.