Good Pharmacy Practices

This module introduces the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Good Pharmacy Practice guidelines, including their rationale, mission, and ethical focus, the core roles of the pharmacist, and the core principles of patient safety, quality of care, and professionalism in retail, hospital, and clinical research settings.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22631 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module distinguishes chronic opioid use from opioid use disorder (OUD) using DSM-5 criteria and patient scenarios, reviews opioid epidemiology and the impact of the opioid crisis, explains Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) and the pharmacist’s role in it, and outlines pharmacists’ legal obligations for verifying, dispensing, and documenting opioid prescriptions.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22632 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module examines how retail and hospital pharmacists help combat the opioid epidemic through safe dispensing, patient education, harm reduction, and opioid stewardship, along with strategies to recognize and manage bias, communicate without judgment, use AI in opioid risk assessment, and evaluate prescriptions for red flags.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22633 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module covers the pharmacist’s regulatory role in clinical research under ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice and FDA regulations, including maintaining investigational product, supporting trials in community and hospital settings, integrating trial drugs into patient care, protecting patient safety, and understanding the participant’s perspective.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22634 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module explains why clinical research is shifting from paper-based records to digital systems, how accurate tracking protects trial participants, and how electronic drug accountability systems (eDAS), blockchain technology, and cloud platforms support secure, compliant clinical trials.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22635 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module explores how retail pharmacy software can be adapted to support clinical trials, including decentralized trials, how synchronizing electronic health records (EHRs) with research systems benefits hospital-based clinical research, and how artificial intelligence (AI), including predictive tracking, can be used in clinical trials.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22636 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module describes what operational excellence looks like in retail and hospital pharmacies, addresses the causes of pharmacist burnout and strategies to reduce it, demonstrates how robotics can improve efficiency, and explains how streamlined workflows improve the patient experience.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22707 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD

This module reviews federal and state pharmacy laws, the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act, and preparation for DEA, FDA, and Joint Commission inspections, along with risk management, error reporting, a just culture approach, and error reduction strategies for retail and hospital pharmacies.

Recommended Use: Required
ID (Language): 22708 (English)
Author(s): Rachel Osborne, PharmD