Overnight APPE

Saint Luke’s Hospital is a 400+ bed not-for-profit tertiary teaching hospital located in the historic Country Club Plaza. The overnight rotation is a seven-on, seven-off four-week rotation that provides students with the opportunity to explore the roles of pharmacists in an overnight hospital setting. Students will be exposed to various operational and clinical activities that overnight clinical pharmacists engage in on a nightly basis.

Students will apply their acquired knowledge and skills to a wide range of professional services and activities that the inpatient pharmacy department provides. The goal of this rotation is to allow the student to develop the ability to assess patient profiles to identify drug-related issues and effectively initiate, adjusted, and monitor patients on various therapies under protocol.

Potential Topics/Activities

  • Medication verification and dispensing/distribution under pharmacist supervision
  • Communicate with nurses and physicians to optimize medication use
  • Selected topic discussions
  • Respond to drug information requests (verbally and/or through documentation in chart)
  • Targeted drug therapy monitoring including vancomycin, aminoglycosides, and others
  • Antibiotic surveillance including review of microbial culture and sensitivity data
  • Medication profile review and identification of drug-related problems
  • Medication reconciliation
  • Adverse drug reaction and medication error reporting
  • Targeted medication teachings as necessary (e.g. antiarrhythmics or anticoagulants)
  • Documentation of clinical activities in the medical record

Goals/Objectives

  • Introduce students to the medication use process and patient care activities that occur in the overnight inpatient pharmacy setting
  • Provide a learning environment for students to apply classroom knowledge and skills to patient care
  • Foster students’ ability to effectively communicate with other members of the healthcare team
  • Improve students’ proficiency in using available resources to ensure the safe and effective use of medications

Location

Preceptors

Spencer Pummel, PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Kansas
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital
Lauren Sharkey, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri–Kansas City
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital
  • Specialty interests: Clinical Toxicology
Abigail Hinckle PharmD, BCPS
  • School of pharmacy: University of Kansas
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Surgery Evidence-Based Practice Team (EPT), Sepsis Fall-Out Committee, System Employee Engagement, Pharmacy Employee Engagement
  • Professional involvement: Kansas Council of Health-System Pharmacy (KCHP), Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacy (MSHP)
Weston Schartz, PharmD
  • School of pharmacy: University of Missouri–Kansas City
  • Residency training: PGY1—Saint Luke’s Hospital
  • Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: Sepsis Committee