Future of Pharmacy Post COVID in Community Practice

Compassionate Care for Your Patients

Washington State University student pharmacist, Indy Howard, presents advice on how to best provide compassionate care for patients. Inspired by her own experiences, Indy shares lessons learned from three patients on the importance of being compassionate while providing care. Implicit biases and patience have major impacts when it comes to providing appropriate patient care. Please give a listen to this podcast on how providing compassionate care can improve patients' views of healthcare providers and how we can do the same.

Pharmacogenomics and Other Up and Coming Clinical Services with CPESN

The Community Practice Academy 2023 Fall podcast features Dr. Cody Clifton from the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Networks (CPESN) discussing pharmacogenomics testing as a service that can be offered to patients in the community practice setting. Additionally, we dive deeper into the nuances of medical billing and how CPESN can help in this space. As medical billing continues to be an ongoing topic in the community practice space, this podcast will be an important one to tune in on to stay up to date in the medical billing space.

Opioid Stewardship with Dr. Sterling Elliott

4th year student pharmacist representative for the CPA, Natalie Dziadosz, interviews Dr. Sterling Elliott on opioid stewardship. Dr. Elliott is a pharmacist who specializes in orthopedics. His work with post-operative pain has given him a specific view on how best to work with opioids in the community as pharmacy practice still faces issues with ongoing abuse, misuse, and recovery. This interview will cover how pharmacy can continue moving forward to help patients and providers best handle patients struggling with the opioid epidemic and better their communities.

Future of Pharmacy Post COVID in Community Practice

With the end of the Public Health Emergency, it's important to see how this has impacted pharmacy practice. With community practice still being changed due to policy changes and approval of EUA medications, the field of community pharmacy has not stopped changing. PY4 University of Washington students, Ruger Stufflebeam and Adam Taniguchi interview community leaders, Chris Schaffner (Schaffner's Pharmacy) and Cherie Hope-Jurado (WalMart) on pharmacy practice during and after COVID-19.