General Hospital/Acute Care Rotation - Saint Luke's South Hospital APPE

Saint Luke's South Hospital, a 115-bed acute care hospital in Overland Park, Kansas, provides a variety of care practices including cardiac, oncology, and onsite chemotherapy infusion center. The facility has earned Center of Excellence designations for orthopedic/joint surgery, bariatric surgery, and stroke/AMI.

Potential Topics/Activities

The inpatient pharmacy is decentralized with a pharmacist assigned to each floor. Pharmacy students will participate in:

• Critical care rounding
• Daily patient clinical monitoring
• Dosing and monitoring of Warfarin, Vancomycin, and aminoglycosides
• Utilize various CDTM agreements for standardization of care
• Introduction to IV preparation and sterility testing
• Management and processes involving medication inventory
• Hospital management and committee meetings
• Various shadowing opportunities
• Minimum of two presentations to staff and/or public
• Provide anticoagulation education to patients
• Act as a drug information resource for the health care team
• Adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting
• Various daily learning activities and projects as they arise

Location

• Saint Luke’s South Hospital

Preceptors

Matt Harting, PharmD

• School of pharmacy: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
• Residency training: Shawnee Mission Medical Center

Tamara Kemplay, PharmD, BCPS

• School of pharmacy: Kansas University School of Pharmacy
• Residency training: Kansas City VA Medical Center
• Health system, hospital, pharmacy, and residency committee involvement: System Pharmacy Education Team, CSI Coordinator at Saint Luke's South Hospital