General Hospital/Acute Care Rotation - Saint Luke’s North Hospital APPE

Saint Luke’s North Hospital is a two-campus hospital serving Kansas City’s Northland region. Between our Barry Road and Smithville campuses, Saint Luke’s North offers 160 patient beds and more than 20 specialized services. The inpatient pharmacy is decentralized for best coordination of care.

This rotation experience emphasizes patient care involvement, including patient data collection, organization, and assessment; development of plans that respond to desired therapeutic objectives; patient monitoring to include physical and laboratory assessment; communication with patients and care givers to acquire patient data, assess treatment outcomes, and drug therapy management. Under the supervision of a preceptor provide education to patients, make recommendations to prescribers, and engage other health care providers in delivery of patient care.

Potential Topics/Activities

  • Critical care rounds with the multi-disciplinary team daily in the ICU
  • Attend and participate in Rehabilitation rounds on a long-term rehab unit
  • Interact daily with hospitalists, cardiology, pulmonary, infectious disease, and other specialists
  • Selected lectures and topic discussions
  • Targeted drug therapy monitoring including vancomycin, aminoglycosides, and TPN
  • Antibiotic surveillance including review of culture and sensitivity data daily
  • Medication profile review and identification of drug-related problems
  • Obtaining a patient’s medication history
  • Adverse drug reaction and medication error reporting
  • Patient education and targeted medication teaching (i.e. enoxaparin, oral anticoagulants)
  • Drug information searches and responses (verbal and/or written)
  • Present required presentations (one or two per preceptor discretion) to pharmacy staff
  • Other activities as agreed upon by student and preceptor

Location

Preceptors

Della Bahmandar, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: Roseman University of Health Sciences
  • Residency training: PGY1 – Cleveland Clinic; PGY2 – Health System Pharmacy Administration – Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
Jonathan Kountz, PharmD
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • Specialty interests: Critical Care, Psychiatry
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Saint Luke’s North Med Safety Team
Blake Miller, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: Harding University College of Pharmacy
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Team (EPT)
Cassie Jo Mitchell, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
Brett Nelson, RPh, BCPP
  • School of pharmacy: Duquesne University
  • Specialty interests: Psychiatry, MDD/Bipolar Patient Education
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Clinical Champion, Saint Luke’s Behavioral Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Team; Saint Luke’s North Ethics Committee
Felicia Seiler, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Kansas
  • Residency training: West Kendall Baptist Hospital
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Saint Luke’s Health System Pharmacy Operations Team
Lisa Williams, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Saint Luke’s Health System (SLHS) Pharmacy Clinical User Group; SLHS Ambulatory Pharmacy Clinical User Group; Saint Luke’s North (SLN) Employee Engagement Committee; SLN Time to Critical Diagnosis Committee; Meds To Beds
Curtiss Lane, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kanas City School of Pharmacy
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
  • Specialty interests: Cardiology, Critical Care
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Saint Luke’s North (SLN) Infection Prevention Evidence-Based Practice Team (EPT), SLN Representative of System Pharmacy Education Team
  • Professional involvement: American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)