Chapter 6- Pharmacy Organizations Flashcards
Name 3 incentives that motivate individuals to join and maintain a membership in pharmacy organizations ?
- obtain new info on new therapies
- info on approaches to managing therapy of patients w/ specific disease
- management techniques that can be applied in practice
Hoc meetings?
additional meetings that range from educational sessions on topics of interest to planning action in advocating for some policy decision.
What do the journals published by pharmacy organizations include? (3)
- reports on business meetings
- summaries of issues facing pharmacy
- lobbying activities of the organization
Why are pharmacy organizations founded? (3)
- in response to perceived threat to the profession
- in response to a desire on the part of the members of the profession to ADVANCE the profession
- in response to a desire to PROMOTE greater DEVELOPMENT of a special area of pharmacy practice
Historically, what were the goals of the druggist? (3)
- import drugs and chemicals
- supply physicians w/ drug and chemicals
- manufacture of drugs and chemicals as opposed to importation (later on)
What did the 1st local associations do?(4)
- established schools for training
- set up legal controls
- established process of licensing
- sought to maintain practice
What are the 3 things that organizations publish to keep members and non-members informed?
- journals
- magazines
- monographs
A profession must be active in examining societal changes and setting GOALS in order to avoid what?
stagnation
What allows members to access to influencing policy positions of the organization as well as health policy in general?
Forum for policy making for the profession
What were the 1st pharmacy organizations formed and why were they formed?
- local associations
- in response to activities undertaken by physicians to regulate the sale of drugs.
Name the 6 types of pharmacy organizations.
- National practitioner organizations
- fraternal and honorary societies
- state practioner organizations
- local practitioners organizations
- national trade organizations
- educational, regulatory or foundation organizations
Name the type of pharmacy organization:
Organizations that normally have corporations as members and represent those corporate interests.
National trade organizations
Name the type of pharmacy organization:
national organizations that primarily have pharmacists for members
National practioner organizations (9)
Name the type of pharmacy organization:
the state and local level counterparts of the national organizations
State and Local organizations
Name the type of pharmacy organization:
Has a greater emphasis on SOCIAL GOALS and BONDS between members.
Fraternal, leadership, and honorary societies (7)
List the National Practioner Organizations (9)
- American PhA
- N Community PA
- ACApothecaries
- ASHealth-systems P
- NPharmaceutical A
- ASConsultant P
- ACClinical P
- AAPharmaceutical Scientist
- AManaged Care P
Name the National Practioner Organization:
formed specifically to address the issues of managed care pharmacy.
AMCP
Association of Managed Care Pharmacy
Name the National Practioner Organization:
-provide a forum for free interchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge
-influencing the formation of public policy
-promoting pharmaceutical sciences collectively
-foster career growth and development of
members
AAPS
American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Name the National Practioner Organization:
Founded by African-American pharmacists to work toward improvement of the position
of African-American pharmacists within the profession
NPhA
National Pharmaceutical Association
Name the National Practioner Organization:
Involved in “managing drug therapy for geriatric patients and other individuals residing in a variety of environments, including nursing facilities, subacute care and assisted living facilities, psychiatric hospitals,
hospice programs, and home and community-based care.”
ASCP
American Society of Consultant Pharmacist (geriatrics)
Name the National Practioner Organization:
involved in “promoting of excellence and innovation in clinical practice, research, and education.”
ACCP
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
Name the National Practioner Organization:
formerly known as American Society of Hospital Pharmacist and membership consists primarily of pharmacy practitioners,pharmacy students, and pharmacy residents with an interest in hospital
pharmacy.
ASHP
American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists
Name the National Practioner Organization:
The organization has three academies: the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management; the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science; and the Academy of Students of Pharmacy.
APhA
American Pharmacist Association
oldest national associations
worked with American Medical Association on efforts to control the quality of imported drugs
Name the National Practioner Organization:
-formally known as NARD- National Association of Retail Druggists
-separated from APhA
-developed to address the commercial interest of independent pharmacy owners, and it still works to represent the interests of independent community
pharmacy owners
NCPA
National Community of Pharmacist Association
