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Board of Pharmacy News by Scott A. Meyers, Executive Vice President, RPh, MS, FASHP The May Illinois Board of Pharmacy Meeting was held on Tuesday, May 10th in the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago. The following are the highlights of that meeting. New Faces in the Division of Professional Regulation – Jay Stewart was introduced to the Board of Pharmacy and guests at the opening of the meeting. Mr. Stewart was confirmed by the Illinois Senate in early May as the replacement of Director Dan Bluthardt, who left in the fall of 2010. Acting Director Don Seasock is now the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Department. Nancy Hall was also introduced as a new pharmacy investigator for the central region of Illinois. She will work out of the Springfield office and will assist Investigator Maureen Antwaar with investigations south of I-80. It was also announced at this meeting that longtime investigator Rob Skrocki will be retiring as of May 20, 2011. The Board voted unanimously to send a letter of appreciation to Mr. Skrocki for his years of dedicated service. NABP MPJE Item Writing Workshop – Board member Ned Milenkovich participated in an item-writing workshop in April at NABP headquarters and generated 25 new items for the Illinois portion of the multi-state pharmacy jurisprudence exam. These items will begin appearing on the MPJE shortly for validity testing before they can be used in the scored portion of the exam. NABP Annual Meeting – The NABP 2011 Annual Meeting will be held on May 21-24th in San Antonio, TX. The Board Members planning to attend are Board Chair, Phil Burgess; Board Vice Chair, Sudhir Manek; Miriam Mobley-Smith, Ron Weinert; and Ned Milenkovich. The Board Chair normally serves as the Illinois delegate to the NABP House of Delegates. Each Board Member pays for his or her own way to this event. Medication Safety Presentation – Mary Baker, pharmacist at Hospira presented to the Board on the USP Chapter 797 requirements at the request of Board Member Miriam Mobley-Smith. Ms. Baker served as a member of the USP committee that updated the Chapter released in 2008 and provided a very comprehensive review of Chapter 797. She urged the Board to support the requirement of it as the sterile product preparation regulations for Illinois. Twenty-two states have implemented the Chapter as their own regulations for this important area of pharmacy practice. Illinois’ current regulations are not as comprehensive as USP Chapter 797, but because the USP is not a government agency of the federal government or Illinois, the Board cannot enforce on these standards unless they are specified in the Pharmacy Practice Act. MatchRx.Com – The Board discussed this Michigan-based company that works to pair up pharmacies that have overstock they wish to sell with prospective buyers. There is a problem with the process in Illinois because the pharmacy selling the product must have a valid wholesale distributor license in order to sell product to another pharmacy. While the concept may be intriguing for pharmacies that have over-purchased products, there are serious concerns with issues that include pedigree, storage, handling and counterfeit medications. MatchRx.com has not broken any laws, but pharmacies that use the service may be involved in illegal activities if appropriate licenses and ethical practices are not in place. Legislative Update – Mike Patton, IPhA Executive Director presented an update to the Board members. A complete update of pharmacy related legislation still active in the Illinois General Assembly may be found in the “GAS from Springfield” column in this issue. Prosecutions – Scott Golden, pharmacy prosecutor for the Department reported that there are approximately 106 cases in some stage of prosecution with the Department. Here is breakdown of categories of cases currently being prosecuted with most frequent categories listed first: 15 Pharmacy Technician Cases • diversion related • application issues • miscellaneous 53 Pharmacist Cases • dispensing error-related • unprofessional practice • sister state prosecutions • diversion 38 Entity-related (pharmacies, distributors) cases • Failure to exercise good faith dispensing • Expired controlled substance license • Improper pharmacy closing • Unsanitary conditions Next Meeting – The next meeting of the Illinois Board of Pharmacy will take place on Tuesday, July 12th at 9:30AM at the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. The meeting is open to the public and interested pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy students should consider attending. ■ 24 July 2011 | <strong>KeePosted</strong> | www.ichpnet.org
College Connection - SIUE An Alternative Rotation Delivers An Alternative Experience by Brice Foose, P3, SSHP President Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy I recently completed a three week alternative IPPE rotation at Illinois CancerCare in Peoria, Illinois. As a childhood cancer survivor, this rotation meant a lot to me. Through my past childhood experience, I found motivation to learn each and every day at the site. Illinois CancerCare is a private practice owned by twelve physicians that specialize in hematology and oncology. Five other doctors include a nonpartner oncologist, one hospitalist, and three gynecological oncologists to make a total of seventeen physicians within Illinois CancerCare. There are eleven nurse practitioners and two pharmacists that also practice at the site. My preceptor, Dr. Michele Rice, Pharm.D., BCOP, is the clinical pharmacist at the Illinois CancerCare. The unique pharmacy setting includes a retail pharmacy very close to the IV prep area. The majority of my time was spent in the IV prep area where I checked doses and the patient’s lab values to ensure proper medication safety. Once the doses and labs were checked, I printed the labels and delivered them to the technicians in the clean room for sterile product preparation. Once the dose was prepared, I was responsible for the proper delivery to the administration area, either via tube system or manual delivery depending on the drug. Illinois CancerCare has fifteen offsite locations dispersed throughout central Illinois. I was able to visit an off-site clinic in Ottawa, Illinois. Ottawa is one of the busiest offsite clinics of the fifteen. The day I happened to work in the Ottawa clinic was no exception. The nurses brought the orders to the pharmacy area and I proceeded to check them. After checking the orders, I spikeed the bags and delivered them to the technician in the clean room for sterile product preparation. After the IVs were made I delivered them to the nurses for administration to the patients. The treatment room was located about fifteen feet away from the pharmacy area. This allowed for easy communication between the pharmacy staff and the nurses. Throughout the day the nurses and the pharmacy staff communicated back and forth to ensure exceptional patient care. As a second year pharmacy student at SIUE School of Pharmacy, I had not been through the oncology/hematology therapeutics course, which initially put me at a disadvantage for this rotation. However, to compensate for this disadvantage, I jumped at opportunities that came up in which I had previously obtained a wealth of knowledge through my education. One particular situation that was presented to me had to do with a patient that had undergone a Rouxen-Y procedure. The physician wanted to know if the oral medication, temozolomide (Temodar), would still be effective in treating the patient’s glioblastoma. I remembered back to a recent biopharmaceutics class in which we had talked extensively about the Roux-en-Y procedure and how it can affect the bioavailabiltiy of a drug. After reading a case report, as well as analyzing the structure and pharmacokinetic profile of temozolmide, I was confident in making a recommendation to the retail pharmacist who passed the information on to the physician. Typically in class we would talk about blood pressure or cholesterol medications used with the Roux-en-Y procedure. Making a recommendation involving a medication used to treat a brain tumor gave me a great sense of accomplishment. Towards the end of my three weeks, I was fortunate enough to spend an unforgettable day with a nurse practitioner. I was able to sit in on several follow up visits. One particular patient had breast cancer that had 25 July 2011 | <strong>KeePosted</strong> | www.ichpnet.org
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