The Lone Star Pharmacist - June 2018

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New Practitioner Corner
New Pharmacists, Let Your Voice Be Heard
A special message to all TSHP New Practitioners
from the outgoing and incoming Chairs
Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of
working with amazing new practitioners throughout
the state. As the year ends, we would like to recognize
the leadership within our section for their outstanding
work:
• Membership Committee lead: Hongmei Wang
• Video testimonial lead: Anne Nguyen
• Mentorship Program leads: Sarah Rumbellow
and Uche Mbadugha
• College outreach leads:
Caitlin Gibson and Devlin
Smith
• Residency Showcase lead:
Julie Krapfel
• Annual Seminar leads: Jenny
Benjamin and Anne Nguyen
• Student Section Committee
liaison: Justin Shanks
• Nominations/Recognition
leads: Taryn Bainum and
Hongmei Wang
• Social Media outreach leads: Sara Wettergreen
and Ardath Mitchell
• BCPS initiative lead: Kristy Walker
• Clinical Pearl of the Month lead: Julie Krapfel
• Webinar CE lead: Jordan Burdine
• New Practitioner Newsletter lead: Mary Shreffler
• Local Chapter outreach lead: Sarah Rumbellow
“Contributing to
your profession
through a TSHP
council or section
is a rewarding
experience you do
not want to miss!”
We would also like to recognize the officers for the
upcoming year who were installed at Annual Seminar:
• Chair: Hongmei Wang
• Chair-Elect: Justin Shanks
• Immediate Past Chair: Taryn Bainum
• Secretary: Jordan Burdine
• Member-at-Large: Julie Krapfel
The New Practitioner Section has always strived to
engage new pharmacists in the organization, provide
benefits to TSHP members, and further both TSHP
and the pharmacy profession. We look forward to
continuing to serve the members of
TSHP and to a new year of statewide
collaboration. We want to
thank everyone involved in the
section for all your hard work and let
you know it is greatly appreciated.
We could not carry out our duties
as a section if not for your efforts.
We encourage all new
practitioners throughout the
organization and across the state to
let your voice be heard through one
avenue or another. We are all busy and have many
things on our plate, but jumping in and contributing to
your profession through a TSHP council or section is
a rewarding experience you do not want to miss! It is
truly amazing to see how everyone’s’ unique visions
can come together to create such remarkable results.
If you would like to join the New Practitioner
Section or have any questions, please feel free to
contact us. We would love to talk to you about how
to get involved!
Immediate Past Chair: Taryn Bainum
(taryn.bainum@ttuhsc.edu)
Chair: Hongmei Wang (hongmei.wang@tsu.edu)
Chair-Elect: Justin Shanks (jds117bus@gmail.com)
Taryn Bainum
Justin Shanks
Hongmei Wang
TSHP R&E Foundation Spotlight:
‘CAB’ Bond Memorial Research Grant
cbet@TAMUT.edu
TSHP
Career Center
Connecting Talent
with Opportunity
www.tshp.org/cc
Dr. Chester A. Bond (CAB) was a Professor of
Pharmacy Practice and University Distinguished
Professor for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center (TTUHSC), School of Pharmacy. The memorial
grant named in his honor aims to assist pharmacist
practitioners in hospitals and health systems, students,
and faculty pursue original research and worthwhile
projects that result in improving health outcomes for
Texans. The 2017 recipient was “Utilization of Roboticassisted
Video Conferencing to Extend Pharmacists’
Presence on Patient Care Floors to Provide Transitionof-Care
Clinical Services in a Newly Opened
Community Hospital” from Ran Xu, PhD, PharmD (PI)
and co-investigators Kaye Rathmann, RPh, Kayleigh
Emerson, PharmD, Karen Simpson, PharmD, Michael
Liebl, PharmD (CO-PIs).
In their proposal, investigators cite that within a
few months since the hospital opening, pharmacists
have discovered numerous medication errors during
transition of care, including hospital admission and
discharge, which can lead to adverse drug events
(ADEs). In prior to admission (PTA) medication history,
the errors can arise from various causes such as time
constraints of nursing staff, patients or family being
poor historians, and inaccurate medication records.
This problem has become more significant with the
advancement of the EMR, which requires the end-user
to navigate a complex medication database. Thus,
it is challenging for non-pharmacy personnel with
limited medication management training to obtain and
record accurate medication histories in EMR. Based
on published literature and the principle investigators’
previous research, pharmacist- or
pharmacy technician-involved
workflow on completing PTA
medication history has been
shown to reduce medication
discrepancies, decrease
potential ADEs, and improve
provider compliance with
medication reconciliation. The
team proposes a pilot study to
utilize the robotic-assisted video
conferencing (RVC) technology
to provide pharmacists’ presence
on patient care floors where
clinical services are essential
but lacking in a newly opened
community hospital. The role of
the virtual pharmacists includes medication history
verification, discharge counseling, and addressing
patients’ questions and concerns on medications. The
purpose of this project is to assess clinical and safety
outcomes including the correction in PTA medication
discrepancies and the improvement of patients’
understanding of discharge medications after the RVC
device has been deployed in our hospital.
This 2017 Grant will be administered through
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital,
Department of Pharmacy.
The 2018 application cycle will open in August.
For more information about this grant opportunity,
including submission requirements, please visit the
TSHP R&E website at www.tshp.org/CABgrant.
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