Claremore Indian Health Service Hospital
Claremore, OK
The Claremore Indian Health Service Hospital offers a variety of clinical and operations experiences for students. Claremore is a United States Public Health Service Hospital serving the Indian Health Service operations division. The hospital pharmacy provides clinical rounding services with internal medicine and surgery teams, pharmacokinetic services, anticoagulation management programs, and clinical interventions programs. The outpatient pharmacy provides over 100,000 visits annually and provides anticoagulation, cardiovascular risk, and heart failure programs. These outpatient clinics are staffed by pharmacists who provide primary care to patients with chronic disease states such as dysliplidemia, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation.
Pharmacy students on rotation will be expected to assure appropriateness of medication orders, verify patients understanding of their medications through patient counseling skills, provide drug information to patients and health care professionals, work on disease prevention projects, and manage therapy for selected patients in the inpatient and outpatient clinical pharmacy services. The rotation will focus on therapeutic decision making, medical record reviewing, communication, laboratory interpretation, conflict resolution, clinical documentation, and drug information skills.
A typical day during the rotation will involve early morning inpatient clinical rounds, working in the pharmacy-based ambulatory care clinics, and providing support for a variety of clinical projects such as drug information questions, drug usage evaluation reports, or medication error reporting. The student will typically spend 2 weeks in the ambulatory care arena and 2 weeks in the inpatient clinical areas. The time percentages may vary depending on the availability of pharmacy-based providers.