Hospital Pharmacy

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Session · 33 of 35

Hospital Pharmacy

Hospital pharmacy practice integrates clinical, operational and regulatory roles with workforce challenges. The session covers antimicrobial stewardship and CDC core elements, medication-error reduction, oncology pharmacy specialisation (BCOP board certification), pharmacy automation (Pyxis, Omnicell, RIVA, BD Cato), drug shortages and management, and pharmacist prescribing authority expansion. Discussion addresses 340B drug pricing programmes, the comparison of integrated pharmacy and PBM models, sterile compounding in hospitals, ICU and emergency pharmacy practice, transitions-of-care pharmacist roles, and the workforce-development pipeline.

Topics covered in this session
  • CDC antimicrobial stewardship
  • Medication-error reduction
  • Oncology BCOP
  • Pyxis/Omnicell automation
  • Drug-shortage management
  • Pharmacist prescribing
  • 340B programme
  • Transitions of care pharmacist