Preceptor’s Expectations of Students

Acute Care (In-Patient) Rotation with a Nephrology Focus

  1. Professionalism
  • Students shall act in a professional, respectful manner while interacting with other professionals and patients so you represent the SOP in a positive manner.
  1. Daily pharmacy rounds with preceptor
  • Expectation: student is prepared to present his/her patient promptly at the start of morning rounds on the Renal Unit at 8AM unless otherwise instructed. Failure to be prepared for pharmacy rounds will be reflected in the midterm and final evaluations.
  • Daily monitoring forms are required. A SOAP note will also be written for every patient that the student formally follows (not monitoring patients). SOAP notes will be written during the student’s initial evaluation of the patient and will be updated weekly as necessary.
  • Students are responsible for electronic documentation of their clinical pharmacy interventions in Pharmacy One Source (you will be trained to use this).
  1. DI questions – We will utilize the SU DI Request Form for all drug information requests and responses
  2. Two formal presentations:
  3. Journal Club (third week of rotation) – topics should be related to nephrology if possible, but any general internal medicine topic is appreciated. This article should somehow involve medication therapy and must be approved by the preceptor.
  4. Patient Case/Disease State Presentations (last week of rotation) – patient cases are preferred, but several topics can be discussed for this final presentation and must be approved by the preceptor.
  • Formal write up/presentation; guidelines will be provided
  • Evaluations will be performed for each presentation
  1. Rotation project – A medication will be assigned at the beginning of the rotation with which I would like a full renal dosing profile to be completed. Research into all dosing recommendations, including primary literature, will be collected and a final recommendation will be made in language that is clear and understandable for any pharmacist to know exactly what dose should be given in the case of HD, PD, or CRRT.
  2. Weekly ‘mini’ journal club presentations – the student will select and present a journal article every week (starting week 2). These mini-journal clubs do not have to be written, but it may be helpful to write a short summary and conclusion for these articles. Topics should be related to nephrology patient’s if possible, but any general internal medicine topic is appreciated.
  3. Attendance at weekly CME presentations
  • Conference Center (12:30 pm-1:30 pm on Wednesdays)
  • You can attend weekly voluntarily; I may require attendance depending on the topic presented
  1. Participationin discussions of therapeutic topics, etc
  • Students will get advance notice of topic so he/she may be ready for discussion.
  1. Students will assist preceptor in research projects PRN (screening, data collection, etc)
  2. Required readings will be given via Google Docs and the student will be given ample time for preparation prior to specific topic discussions. Additional topics may arise depending on the patient situations we encounter during the rotation.
  3. Students will abide by the School of Pharmacy Experiential policies.
  4. Other activities may be included.

The expectations of the inpatient acute care rotation are listed above. Your grade for this rotation will be reflected in your ability to carry out these expectations.

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