Hosted by: Virginia Pharmacists Association

August 19 & 26, 2019 (This program will be spread over two days.)
Shenandoah University-Bernard Dunn School of Pharmacy

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For questions about this program, please contact: VPhA at info@virginiapharmacists.org

APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program is an innovative, intensive, and practice-based continuing pharmacy education, based on national educational standards for immunization training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  This program is designed to educate pharmacists about the professional opportunities for vaccine advocacy and administration.  This practice-based curriculum represents a fusion of science and clinical pharmacy. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, seeks to foster the implementation of interventions that will promote disease prevention and public health.

The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists with comprehensive knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to provide immunization services to patients across the life span.

Program Goals:

Educate pharmacists about:

• The impact of vaccines on public health.
• Pharmacists’ roles in immunization.
• Immunologic principles of vaccine development and immunizations.
• Vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines used to prevent them.
• Strategies for improving immunization rates.
• Requirements for pharmacists who provide immunization services.

Prepare pharmacists to:

• Read an immunization schedule and identify appropriate vaccines for individuals across the life span and with special needs.
• Educate patients about the benefits of vaccines and dispel myths about vaccines.
• Safely administer vaccines to patients via subcutaneous, intramuscular, intranasal, and intradermal routes.
• Operate an immunization service in compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
• Partner with immunization stakeholders to promote immunizations and the immunization neighborhood.

Direct pharmacists to resources necessary to:

• Promote public health through immunizations.
• Access regularly updated information about vaccines and their use.Effectively communicate with patients and other stakeholders about resources.
• Operate an immunization service in compliance with legal and regulatory standards.

APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program has three components: online interactive self-study with assessment; the live seminar with online final assessment; and hands-on assessment of intramuscular and subcutaneous injection technique. A Certificate of

Achievement will be awarded to participants who successfully complete all program components, including an evaluation

Key Learning Objectives of the Live Training Seminar

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe strategies for increasing immunization rates, including physician collaborations, community level activities, and immunization coalition activities.
2. Review adult patient cases and patient-specific recommendations based on the appropriate immunization schedule.
3. Review a pediatric patient case and make patient-specific recommendations based on the appropriate immunization schedule.
4. Demonstrate effective strategies for communicating with patients who have concerns about vaccines.
5. Describe current evidence that explores the relationship between autism and vaccines.
6. Describe a process for administering vaccines in a community pharmacy.
7. Recognize the signs and symptoms of adverse reactions that can occur after vaccination.
8. Describe procedures for management of patients with adverse reactions to vaccination that constitute an emergency.
9. List the steps for intranasal administration of the live attenuated influenza vaccine.
10. Demonstrate appropriate intramuscular and subcutaneous injection techniques for adult immunization.

For a complete list of learning objectives and for all APhA accreditation information and policies, please visit APhA’s website, http://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacy-based-immunization-delivery .

Seminar Agenda

• Check-in and Continental Breakfast
• Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements
• Clinical Review
• Morning Break
• Managing a Pharmacy-Based Immunization Program
• Strategies for Increasing Immunization Rates
• Lunch
• Applying ACIP Immunization Schedules
• Communicating with Patients
• Afternoon Break
• Vaccine Administration Technique
• Transitional/Summary Remarks
• Skills Assessment

Fees

Faculty

Amber Darr, PharmD
Director of Continuing Professional Development & Assistant Professor
Pharmacy Practice Shenandoah University

Sarah Parnapy Jawaid, Pharm.D.,FAPhA
Associate Professor
Pharmacy Practice Shenandoah University

Katie Sanders
Director of Recruitment and Admissions & Lecturer
Shenandoah University

Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) Information and Activity Completion Requirements

Initial release date: 07/15/2017; expiration date:  07/15/2020
Activity Type:  Practice-based
Target Audience:  Pharmacists in all practice settings

• Successful completion of the self-study component involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and will result in 12 contact hours of CPE credits (1.2 CEUs).    ACPE Universal Activity Number: 0202-9999-17-160-H06-P
• Successful completion of the live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, passing the final assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and demonstrating competency in 2 intramuscular and 1 subcutaneous injection. Successful completion of this component will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (0.80 CEU).    ACPE Universal Activity Number: 0202-9999-17-161-L06-P

Once credit is claimed, Statements of Credit will be available online within 24 hours on participant’s CPE Monitor profile at www.nabp.net.  The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s “My Training” page on www.pharmacist.com

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The home-study portion of the Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program is approved for 12 contact hours (1.2 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit (UAN 0202-9999-17-160-H06-P). The live training seminar is approved for 8 contact hours (0.8 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit (UAN 0202-9999-17-161-L06-P).

Activity Requirements –  Course material and exams will be accessed online – In order to participate in this activity, registrants must have access to a computer with minimum system requirements:  Internet connectivity with current version of internet browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer (V8 and above); Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash Player 8 or higher, Windows 95, Pentium 3 or equivalent processor, 64 MB of free memory (not 64 MB total), and Audio: Sound card and speakers or earphones.  For full technology requirements, please visit http://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacy-based-immunization-delivery

Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery: A Certificate Training Program for Pharmacists was developed by the American Pharmacists Association.

Refund Policy

The fee to cancel is $150.  VPhA must receive your cancellation notice in writing at least two weeks prior to the live program offering. After that, there will be no refunds granted.  Registration fees cannot be re-allocated to future offerings of this certification program due to the multiple steps involved with processing CE credits.