COMPLEMENTARY PIECE TO THE JCPP VISION

JCPP* Vision for Pharmacists’ Practice

Approved by JCPP CEOs

May 29, 2014

(Reviewed by JCPP Steering Committee on March 11, 2014, May 21, 2014; Version May 21, 2014)

Vision Statement (adopted by JCPP November 2013)
Patients achieve optimal health and medication outcomes with pharmacists as essential and accountable providers within patient‐centered, team-based healthcare.
*JCPP was established in 1977 and serves as a forum on matters of common interest and concern to national organizations of pharmacy practitioners and invited liaison members. JCPP Members are: AMCP, AACP, ACA, ACCP, ACPE, APhA, ASCP, ASHP, NABP, NCPA, and NASPA.

Vision for Pharmacists’ Practice

Pharmacists will provide services within community-based practices, institutions, clinics, patients’ homes or other settings, and will coordinate, collaborate and communicate among themselves and with other members of the health care team.

Responsibilities:

As members of the patient-centered health care team, pharmacists will be accountable for health, medication-related, and patient and population-specific needs by assuming responsibility for:

  • the rational, evidence-based use of medications
  • facilitating achievement of patients’ health and medication-related goals
  • the promotion of wellness, health improvement, and disease prevention
  • the design and oversight of safe, accurate, and timely medication distribution systems
  • the provision ofhigh-quality, compassionate, cost-effectivecare.

Education and Training:

Professional education and formal postgraduate training will prepare pharmacists to assume their patient care responsibilities. Pharmacists will develop and maintain:

  • the commitment and compassion to care for and care about patients
  • the ability to engage and partner with patients, caregivers/families, and other stakeholders of the health care system
  • an in-depth knowledge of medications, and the biomedical, pharmaceutical, sociobehavioral, and clinical sciences
  • the ability to apply evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic principles and guidelines, evolving sciences and emerging technologies, and relevant legal, ethical, social, cultural, economic, and professional issues to patient care
  • the ability to manage the pharmacist’s practice and provide oversight of a safe medication distribution system, and appropriately utilize pharmacy technicians, support personnel, and technology.

Practice: Within a patient-centered, team-based health care system, pharmacists will apply a consistent process of patient care.In doing so, pharmacists will:

  • collect necessary subjective and objective information about the patient in order to understand the relevant medical and medication history, and health status of the patient
  • assess the information collected and analyze the clinical effects of the patient’s therapy in the context of the patient’s overall health goals in order to identify and prioritize problems and achieve optimal care
  • develop an individualized patient-centered care plan, in collaboration with other health care professionals and the patient or caregiver that is evidence-based and cost-effective
  • implement the care plan in collaboration with other health care professionals and the patient or caregiver
  • monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the care plan and modify the plan in collaboration with other health care professionals and the patient or caregiver as needed

Outcomes: Pharmacists will have achieved thisvision as essential members of healthcare teams, when:

  • optimal medication therapy and pharmacists’ services are readily available to all patients and their families
  • overuse, underuse and misuse of medications are minimized to optimize medication safety and outcomes
  • pharmacists are involved as collaborators in meeting medication-related public health goals and optimizing medication therapy
  • patientsand caregivers/families trust, utilize and advocate for the pharmacist’s knowledge, experience, judgment, and caring approach to solving medication-related problems and addressing medication-related issues.

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