The following are some examples of projects DPH-4 pharmacy students have completed at 760 clerkship sites. Please note that the projects vary in content creativity, data synthesis, site suitability, and workload.
In Service Projects
- Aluminum Content in TPN
- Asthma Inservice for Nurses
- Cough/cold/allergy OTCs (to nursing staff)
- Drugs in Breastfeeding
- Drugs in Dialysis
- Electrolyte Imbalance
- Guideline Updates
- Hepatitis C Screening Form with inservice
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Hypokalemia Protocol / Inservice
- Medications and Genetics
- Medication Errors / Workflow
- New Drug Updates (for nursing staff)
- Pain Medications During Labor
- Post-transplant Medications
- Reimbursement for cognitive RPh services
- Second generation antipsychotics and metabolic syndrome
- Treatment of Lice in LTC Settings
DUE/MUE Projects
- Albumin
- Alteplase
- Anesthesia prescribing habits analysis
- Combivent
- Glutamine
- Metoclopramide
- Pneumococcal vaccine in nursing home
- U500 insulin
Patient Education Projects
- Asthma education days
- Cholesterol management
- Grapefruit interactions
- HTN screening
- Immunizations
- Lyme disease prevention
- Nurse education fair booth
- OTC information day
- Patient safety projects
- Sinusitis guidelines
- Smoking cessation
Other Projects
- Assessment of asthma care for mail order
- Assessment of a pharmacist’s role in a clinic
- Assessment of nursing home pharmacy services
- Carboplatin dosing in obese patients algorithm
- Chemo dose rounding protocol/algorithm
- Colistin dosing tool
- Cost analysis of infusion pump hardware
- Development of collaborative practice agreement/protocol
- Documentation and description of PCN allergy
- Health literacy: identifying and addressing
- Herbal survey
- Implementation of flavor Rx in the hospital setting
- Immunization reminders and promotion
- Lipids in solid organ transplant patients
- Mannitol standardized dosing / orders
- Medication use standards evaluation at site
- New hire handbook
- Oncology drug calculation worksheet
- Osteoporosis screen / protocol
- Patient consultation project
- Pharmacist billing for cognitive services
- Pharmacist handoff procedure
- Reference guide for specialty medications
- Renal dosing in LTCF
- Retrospective review of potential drug-drug interactions
- Women’s health monographs