Evaluation of pharmaceutical lifesaving skills training oriented pharmaceutical intervention

Yoshito Zamami1,2,3, Toru Imai4, Masaki Imanishi2, Kenshi Takechi5, Naoko Shiraishi6, Toshihiro Koyama7, Hidenori Sagara8, Yasukazu Shiino9, Toshiaki Sendo6, Keisuke Ishizawa1,2
1Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
2Department of Pharmacy, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
3Department of Emergency Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
4Department of Pharmacy, Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
5Clinical Trial Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
6Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan
7Department of Clinical Pharmacy; Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
8Department of Pharmaceutical Information Sciences, Matsuyama University, Matsuyama, Japan
9Department of Acute Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan

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Many pharmacists are participating in team-based medical care in emergency hospitals. Therefore, there is a desperate need to improve the education system. In the present study, we provided a “pharmaceutical lifesaving skills training” to the students in their fifth and sixth year of the pharmaceutical school and evaluated the program’s impact on the students’ learning and confidence in their ability to perform pharmaceutical interventions for emergency patients. We conducted a pharmaceutical lifesaving skills training program with 12 participants who were in their fifth and six year of pharmaceutical school. We prepared a fictional scenario in which a patient with cardiac arrest has been rushed into a hospital. We measured the participants’ level of knowledge of pharmaceutical lifesaving procedures and participants’ confidence to perform pharmaceutical interventions before and after the training session. Using the data obtained from type II quantification method, we examined what elements in the content of the pharmaceutical lifesaving skill training attended by pharmacy students will affect the students’ confidence to perform pharmaceutical interventions. In addition, using the correspondence structural analysis, we examined which sections of the content of the pharmaceutical lifesaving skill training should be improved in the future. When we evaluated the level of knowledge acquired in pharmaceutical lifesaving skills training, the post-training overall correct answer rate was significantly higher than the pre-training overall correct answer rate. And also, level of participants' confidence to perform pharmaceutical interventions similarly increased after pharmaceutical lifesaving skill training. The influence degree graph indicates that the items likely to have a major impact on the participants’ confidence to perform pharmaceutical interventions was “Selecting medicine”. According to the correspondence structural analysis graph based on the questionnaire survey, one item identified as an improvement required was “Selecting medicine”. Our high-performance patient simulator-based lifesaving skills training program not only increased the participants’ understanding of the training content but also increased their confidence in their ability to perform pharmaceutical interventions. Therefore, the pharmaceutical lifesaving skills training program we developed will contribute to the education of emergency care pharmacists who can perform pharmaceutical interventions for emergency patients.

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