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  • Apteekkien farmaseuttisen henkilökunnan osaamisen ylläpitäminen ja kehittäminen : miksi ja miten? 
    Saksi, Outi (2016)
    The development and maintenance of the pharmaceutical workforce's know-how ensure the availability of medicinal consulting and service. Healthcare personnel in Finland are bound by law to uphold and improve their workmanship. Furthermore, a pharmacy owner is legally obliged to keep track of the development of healthcare professional's skills and to ensure the staff's sufficient participation for continuing education (CE). Pharmacists' development and maintenance of professional skills is not linked to preservation of professional competence in Finland. The goal of this study was to get a general view of the development and maintenance of professional skills of pharmacists working in community pharmacies as well as applicaple methods. Additionally, the aim was to determine whether community pharmacists' development of professional skills is systematical. As background material in this thesis, a sub-material of an online study regarding development and maintenance of professional skills was used, which was carried out by the Finnish Pharmacists' Association in September 2013 and it consists of 430 pharmacists' responses who work in community pharmacies. The results show that the methods community pharmacists use to develop and maintain their professional skills are diverse. The recommendation by the authorities is at least three days of CE for one person per year but the majority (83 %) of the participants of this study didn't follow it. Some of the pharmacists develop and maintain their professional skills by attending diligently CE's while the number of pharmacists who do not attend any CE has risen. The number of pharmacists who did not participate in any CE was 26 % in the year prior to this study. The results might point to changes in learning methods or the decline of CE activity. The results of this thesis show that development of professional skills was not systematical in the majority of the pharmacies. An annual personal develompent plan was drawn up in 24 % of the respondents' workplaces and development discussions were had in few. Independent planning, monitoring and evaluation of their own professional skill development were done by 10 % of the pharmacists. The planning of professional skill development was not found to impact CE participation. Development discussions and training schedules that are drawn up in workplaces were found to increase pharmacists' independent planning of their professional skills.
  • Geriatrisen lääkehoidon koulutustarpeet perusterveydenhuollossa : moniammatillisen täydennyskoulutuksen suunnittelu LOST-alueen kotihoidon henkilöstölle 
    Seikola, Anniina (2011)
    The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health published a report on development needs of elder care and geriatric pharmacotherapy in 2006. The major concern in this report was related to several challenges in pharmacotherapy of the aged, such as deficiencies in medical knowledge of nurses working with elderly people. One way to improve the medication expertise of those various parties involved in caring elderly people is continuing education (CE). The aim of this study was to explore pharmacotherapy-related training needs of health care professionals involved in the home care services for the elderly in the Social and Health Care Cooperation Region of Lohja, Siuntio, Inkoo and Karjalohja (the LOST Region). This study was started by conducting a survey among nurses working in home care services for the elderly in the LOST Region in 2009 (response rate 47%). To deepen understanding of the key findings of the survey, focus group discussions (FGDs) and face-to-face interviews were conducted among nurses, nursing aids, their managers and physicians (1 FGD among nurses, n=6; 1 FGD among their managers, n=6; and face-to-face interviews with 4 physicians). The survey data were analyzed separately for nurses (n=9), practical nurses (n=53) and home aids (n=9), but results were the same in every group. Of the theoretical training needs, topics related to pharmacokinetics and special characteristics of using medicines in the elderly, effects, adverse effects and interactions of medicines, were most important. In addition, the theoretical training needs covered professional ethics issues, such as accuracy and carefulness of nursing practice. The main training needs related to collaborative practice in pharmacotherapy concerned monitoring medicine user's condition and medication, and dosing medicines (right medicine, dose, strength, dosage) in the right time, and administration routes of medicines. Focus group discussions and face-to-face interviews of the physicians provided a deeper understanding of the results of the survey. One of the main findings of this qualitative part of the study was challenges in cooperation in home care services in the LOST Region. Implementation and monitoring geriatric pharmacotherapy can be improved by improving multiprofessional cooperation and training for nurses and physicians working in home care services. The most important diseases and disorders for which the nurses would like to have shared operational guidelines were diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, pain, memory and psychiatric disorders. Training needs also covered special characteristics of pharmacotherapy for the elderly, and formulations and administration routes of medicines. Finally, a synthesis was made of the results of the survey, focus group discussions and face-to-face interviews. On the basis of the synthesis, a proposal for a multiprofessional training was developed for the LOST Region. The training plan includes topics related to geriatric pharmacotherapy and improving collaborative practices and communication as identified by those involved in different stages of the study.

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