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Mentoring and supervising clinical pharmacist students at patients' bedside: which benefits?
Author(s) -
RouzaudLaborde Charlotte,
Damery Léa,
Cestac Philippe,
Sallerin Brigitte,
Calvet Pauline
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.12444
Subject(s) - pharmacist , psychological intervention , pharmacy , medical prescription , medicine , clinical pharmacy , pharmaceutical care , test (biology) , family medicine , nursing , paleontology , biology
Rationale, aims and objectives Hospital clinical pharmacists are involved in teaching students during professional internship. Organization between the unit care and the pharmacy place is complicated. This study evaluated the effectiveness of two pharmaceutical teams: an experienced pharmacist in the pharmacy place, reachable by phone (team 1) or an experienced pharmacist in the ward, near patients and students (team 2). Methods Pharmaceutical interventions were collected during two successive time periods, each of 6 months in a 15‐bed unit (neurology). During the first time period, prescriptions were analyzed by the student (resident) in the ward and experienced pharmacist in the pharmacy place. During the second time period, prescriptions were analyzed by both experienced pharmacist and the resident in the ward. We compared the number, the type, the approval of pharmaceutical interventions and the medication reconciliation activities. Proportions were compared by a chisquared test (or Fisher exact test) as well as the quantitative value was calculated by a Student test. Results ‘Mentoring and supervising’ students in the ward increased significantly the number of pharmaceutical interventions (PI; 104 interventions for 1408 analyzed prescriptions (7.4%) by the students in the ward and 317 interventions for 1391 (22.8%) by both the experienced pharmacist and the students in the ward ( P = 0.002). Furthermore, specific interventions from medication reconciliation were significantly increased by the presence of experienced pharmacist in the ward (0.96% vs. 8.83% P = 0.018). Conclusion Effectiveness of clinical pharmacists can be improved by the presence of experienced pharmacist at patients’ bedside, near students.