General Hospital/Acute Care Rotation - Saint Luke's South Hospital APPE
Saint Luke's South Hospital, a 115-bed acute care hospital in Overland Park, Kansas, provides a variety of care practices including cardiac, oncology, and onsite chemotherapy infusion center. The facility has earned Center of Excellence designations for orthopedic/joint surgery, bariatric surgery, and stroke/AMI.
Potential Topics/Activities
The inpatient pharmacy is decentralized with a pharmacist assigned to each floor. Pharmacy students will participate in:
- Critical care rounding
- Daily patient clinical monitoring
- Dosing and monitoring of Warfarin, Vancomycin, and aminoglycosides
- Utilize various CDTM agreements for standardization of care
- Introduction to IV preparation and sterility testing
- Management and processes involving medication inventory
- Hospital management and committee meetings
- Various shadowing opportunities
- Minimum of two presentations to staff and/or public
- Provide anticoagulation education to patients
- Act as a drug information resource for the health care team
- Adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting
- Various daily learning activities and projects as they arise
Location
Preceptors
- Matt Harting, PharmD
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- School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency training: Shawnee Mission Medical Center
- Tamara Kemplay, PharmD, BCPS
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- School of pharmacy: Kansas University School of Pharmacy
- Residency training: Kansas City VA Medical Center
- Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: System Pharmacy Education Team, CSI Coordinator at Saint Luke's South Hospital