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Healthy Albertans through excellence in pharmacy practice

Agenda

• Overview of Continuing Competence Program (CCP)
• Review FAQs
• Provide tips
• Answer your questions

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Objectives of competence program

• Foster meaningful and relevant professional growth
• Empowers you to
• keep current, and
• continuously improve.

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

• Confucius

The Cone of Learning

After 2 weeks we tend to remember…

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Program requirements

• 1. Complete the prescribed learning activity.
• 2. Complete learning activities.
• 3. Put your new learning to use.

Submit the following to ACP

• Learning Records
• One Implementation Record

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Helpful tip Complete a Learning Record immediately after each learning activity

Learning activities and Learning Records

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True or false?

• You must complete a minimum of 15 CEUs, accredited or non-

accredited, within each CE cycle (June 1-May 31).

• You only need to complete Learning Records for non-accredited

activities.

• One hour of non-accredited learning equals one CEU.

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True or false?

The following are all acceptable non-accredited activities:

• Complete a PharmD course.
• Attend a conference accredited for other health professionals.
• Read a journal article.
• Research a new drug online.
• Discuss practice issues with colleagues.
• Attend today’s regional meeting.

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What is the right answer?

• 2. Type of learning activity

Select at least one: ❑ Group program (workshop, course, conference) ❑ Self-study program (print, video/audio, Internet) ❑ Reading (articles, texts, newsletters, manuals, Internet) ❑ Discussion with colleagues or experts ❑ Preceptorship or mentorship (teaching) ❑ Other (please describe)

• 3. To which competency category does this

learning relate? Select at least one: ❑ Ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities ❑ Patient care ❑ Product distribution ❑ Practice setting ❑ Health promotion ❑ Knowledge and research application ❑ Communication and education ❑ Intra- and inter-professional collaboration ❑ Quality and safety

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Provide evidence of activity

• 6. Evidence of Learning Activity

Upload a certificate or document of learning, OR describe the learning activity and explain how it relates to the competency category chosen in question three.

This option is only for non-accredited activities

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Implementing learning

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What does it mean to implement learning?

Learning activity Implementation (applying the learning) Review clinical guidelines Complete a care plan and manage a patient’s therapy based on the current guidelines Attend a workshop Incorporate a new practice tool acquired from the workshop into my patient care process Read a journal article Create a handout and review information from the article with a colleague Take an online course Prepare and present an educational session based on knowledge acquired from the course Discuss best practices with peers Revise policies and procedures based on your discussion with peers

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True or false?

• You have to work in a pharmacy or directly with patients to implement

your learning.

• You have to implement something that is directly related to your current

practice.

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Practice = Practice of pharmacists

• Current practice
• Future practice
• Overall professional

practice

Helpful tip Implement something meaningful, relevant, and beneficial to you and/or the people around you

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After you learn something, consider

What are you going to do differently?

• Will you change or improve
• your practice,
• your organization, or
• the way care is delivered?
• Who will these changes affect?

Outcome 1: Improve your professional practice, organization, and/or the way care is delivered. Outcome 2: Transfer knowledge, a skill, or an ability to

• thers.

Who can you transfer this new knowledge to?

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Implementation checklist

Does your implementation ✓ result in one of the outcomes (improvement or transfer of knowledge), ✓ affect another individual (audience), ✓ produce evidence of implementation, ✓ directly involve the application of at least 1 CEU, and ✓ relate to one of the pharmacy domains?

Healthy Albertans through excellence in pharmacy practice Implementation type Outcome Audience Evidence

• 1. Incorporate a new step/tool into

your care process Outcome 1 Improve your professional practice,

• rganization, and/or

the way care is delivered.

• Patients
• A record of care
• 2. Manage drug therapies and

complete care plans

• Patients
• A record of care
• 3. Implement a new/revised policy,

procedure, or program

• Patients
• Coworkers
• Other healthcare

professionals

• Policies and

procedures

• Program
• 4. Execute a health promotional

activity or educational session Outcome 2 Transfer knowledge, a skill, or an ability to

• thers.
• Patients
• Coworkers
• Other HCPs
• General public
• Presentation
• Resource

Pharmacists

Healthy Albertans through excellence in pharmacy practice Implementation type Outcome Audience Evidence

• 1. Collaborate with the pharmacist

to support patient care Outcome 1 Improve your professional practice,

• rganization, and/or

the way care is delivered.

• Patients
• A record of care
• 2. Develop, implement, and/or

evaluate a policy, procedure, tool, or program

• Patients
• A record of care
• 3. Contribute to a health

promotional activity and/or educate a patient or another health professional

• Patients
• Coworkers
• Other healthcare

professionals

• Policies and

procedures

• Program
• 4. Perform a new/reinforced skill or

technique and demonstrate competence to a peer Outcome 2 Transfer knowledge, a skill, or an ability to

• thers.
• Patients
• Coworkers
• Other HCPs
• General public
• Presentation
• Resource

Pharmacy technicians

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First steps

• 1. Assess your own practice

and learning needs.

• 2. Assess the needs of your

patients, the people around you, or your organization.

• 3. Complete learning activities.

Helpful tip Review the Implementation Record questions so that you know what is expected.

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Implementation Record

Helpful tips

• Answer the questions

asked, and be specific

• Focus on what you

implemented, not what you learned

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Question 1

What relevant learning activities did you undertake that apply to this Implementation Record?

• You must select one or more completed Learning Records totaling one or

more CEUs.

Helpful tips

• Ensure that all learning activities

identified are relevant to the implementation objective

• Make sure at least one hour of learning

is directly related to the objective

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Can I implement learning that I completed in a previous CE cycle?

Implement Reflect Learn

Continuing Competence Cycle

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Question 2

What was your implementation objective?

• What learning did you apply to your practice?
• How did you put this new learning to use?
• Who was the intended audience?
• How did you know you achieved your implementation objective?
• What supporting documentation will you upload?

Helpful tips

• Make your objective SMART (Specific, Measurable,

Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based)

• Ensure your objective answers all the questions

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Question 5

Why you chose this implementation objective, including

• the knowledge or skill that you applied or implemented, and
• how it fits into your practice.

Helpful tips Clearly indicate why the objective was chosen and how it is relevant to you and/or your practice

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Question 6

Steps you took to achieve your implementation objective, including

• timelines,
• audience,
• people involved, and
• your role (if it was a team effort).

Helpful tips

• Clearly outline your steps and your role in the

implementation

• Include all requested details in your answer

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Question 8a

One piece of documentation that provides evidence of your implementation.

• Upload your supporting documentation.

Helpful tips

• Choose 1 piece of evidence that you

believe best showcases that you’ve achieved the implementation objective

• Ensure your evidence relates to your
• bjective

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Program summary and tips

• 1. Complete the prescribed learning activity.
• 2. Complete learning activities.
• Complete a Learning Record right after each learning activity.
• 3. Put your new learning to use.
• Implement something that is meaningful, relevant, and beneficial to

you and/or the people around you.

• In the record, answer the questions asked, and be specific.
• Focus on what was implemented, not what was learned.

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