Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)
Advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) at Saint Luke's are scheduled in two or three month blocks. The block contains multiple rotations so that a student generally spends a month on one practice site before switching to a new practice site for the next month.
Orientation is required for incoming pharmacy rotation students before their rotational experience.
View APPE opportunities:
Abdominal Transplant Outpatient Clinic
The abdominal transplant outpatient clinic rotation involves the provision of pharmaceutical care for patients under the kidney and liver transplant teams. The area of practice is primarily in the transplant clinic in Medical Plaza I on the Saint Luke’s Hospital campus.
Abdominal Transplant/Nephrology
This general medicine four-week learning experience at Saint Luke's Hospital will provide students exposure to the acute, inpatient management of kidney and/or liver transplant recipients and patients with end stage kidney and/or liver disease.
Ambulatory Care
The rotation will allow students to work as a part of the multidisciplinary team in multiple primary care clinics as the complete spectrum of pharmaceutical care is experienced. The majority of time will be spent performing comprehensive medication management directly to patients with pharmacist oversight.
Cardiac Critical Care
The cardiology critical care rotation arranges pharmaceutical care for those patients in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit (CICU) as well as the Advanced Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Unit (H5 South) at Saint Luke’s Hospital. The CICU encompasses the hospitalization of patients for cardiac-related diagnoses.
Cardiovascular Intensive Care
The four-week rotation involves the care for the patients of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and cardiology patients on the H4S floor of Saint Luke's Hospital.
Community Critical Care
The community critical care rotation will provide students exposure and opportunity to participate in the essential roles of the pharmacist in the Community Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit at Saint Luke's East Hospital.
Emergency Medicine
The emergency medicine rotation will provide students exposure and opportunity to participate in the essential roles of the pharmacist in the Saint Luke’s Hospital’s Emergency Department.
Evening Critical Care and Emergency Department
The rotation involves covering all of the Saint Luke’s Hospital adult intensive care units (CICU, CVICU, MSTICU, NSICU) and the Emergency Department in the evening. Students will have the option between working five eight-hour days per week or four ten-hour days per week.
General Cardiology
The rotation involves the planning of pharmaceutical care for those patients in the Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute. The sixth floor has 38 beds that are monitored via centralized telemetry and provides comprehensive multidisciplinary medical intermediate cardiac care. The third floor has pre- and post-procedure patients.
General Hospital/Acute Care - Hedrick Medical Center
The rotation is designed to provide the student with a well-rounded experience in acute care medicine and general hospital pharmacy. Students participate in the daily drug distribution process and have opportunities to apply their clinical knowledge and skills through our professional integrated pharmacy services.
General Hospital/Acute Care - Saint Luke’s East Hospital
The rotation is designed to provide the student with a well-rounded experience in acute care medicine and general hospital pharmacy. Students participate in the daily drug distribution process and have opportunities to apply their clinical knowledge and skills through our professional integrated pharmacy services.
General Hospital/Acute Care - Saint Luke’s North Hospital
The rotation is designed to provide the student with a well-rounded experience in acute care medicine and general hospital pharmacy. Students participate in the daily drug distribution process and have opportunities to apply their clinical knowledge and skills through our professional integrated pharmacy services.
General Hospital/Acute Care - Saint Luke's South Hospital
The rotation is designed to provide the student with a well-rounded experience in acute care medicine and general hospital pharmacy. Students participate in the daily drug distribution process and have opportunities to apply their clinical knowledge and skills through our professional integrated pharmacy services.
Heart Failure/Transplant
The Heart Failure/Transplant rotation involves the provision of pharmaceutical care for patients with advanced heart failure and those who have mechanical circulatory support.
Hematology/Oncology
The rotation is a four-week experiential rotation for pharmacy students at the oncology infusion centers across the health system. Time will also be spent on the Neuro 4 nursing unit at Saint Luke’s Hospital which houses both inpatient oncology and neuro step-down patients.
Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship
The Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Advisement Program (ID/ADAP) rotation is a four-week elective rotation for pharmacy students at Saint Luke’s Hospital. The rotation will be split into two-week blocks. Two weeks will be spent rounding with the ID service and the other two with the ADAP pharmacist.
Leadership and Management - Saint Luke's Hospital
The rotation is designed to allow the student to acquire the first-hand experience in pharmacy practice's managerial and administrative aspects. These include: financial management, personnel management, performance improvement and quality assurance, pharmacy operations, and planning and project management.
Leadership and Management - Saint Luke's East Hospital
The rotation is designed to allow the student to acquire the first-hand experience in pharmacy practice's managerial and administrative aspects. These include: financial management, personnel management, performance improvement and quality assurance, pharmacy operations, and planning and project management.
Medical/Surgical/Trauma Critical Care
The month-long clinical rotation places emphasis on the care of the critically ill patient, including those requiring mechanical ventilation, sedation, vasopressor support, and other life-saving therapies. The rotation is at Saint Luke’s Hospital’s Medical/Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit, a 20-bed closed unit.
Medication Safety
The one-month rotation is at Saint Luke's Hospital. It is designed to provide the student with a broad perspective of medication safety topics and activities in a health-system. The rotation is designed to expose students to medication safety nomenclature, key principles, tools, and available resources so the student will be able to apply knowledge in any pharmacy practice setting to improve medication safety for patients.
Neonatology/Obstetrics
The rotation involves planning of pharmaceutical care for patients in the Level 3b Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Labor and Delivery Unit/Complicated Obstetrics, and Mother/Baby postpartum. These units encompass the hospitalization of neonates and women before (prenatal), during (perinatal), and after (postpartum) birth.
Neuroscience Intensive Care
The rotation is a four-week experiential rotation for pharmacy students at Saint Luke's Hospital’s Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit. Students will be responsible for monitoring the pharmacotherapy for the 18 beds in the NSICU and the patients on a neuro-ward floor.
Overnight
The rotation is a seven-on/seven-off four week rotation that provides students the opportunity to explore the roles of pharmacists in an overnight hospital setting. Students will be exposed to various operational and clinical activities that overnight clinical pharmacists engage in on a nightly basis.
Pulmonary
The four-week rotation places emphasis on the care of the hospitalized patient with focus in pulmonary diseases, infectious disease, neurological diseases, and general internal medicine. Students will be assigned specific patients to follow and provide pharmaceutical care, as well as round with pulmonary consult service.
Retail/Community Pharmacy
Students will provide patient-centered care in a community pharmacy setting under the supervision of the site pharmacy preceptor to gain understanding of the daily functions and responsibilities of a retail pharmacist and further develop applicable knowledge regarding use of medications.
Specialty Pharmacy
This rotation will provide students exposure and opportunity to participate in the essential roles of a clinical specialty pharmacist. The goal of the rotation is for the student to become familiar with the specialty pharmacy industry, obtain experience in working in both operational and clinical roles, and gain valuable specialty and drug information knowledge.