Online Education and Training

Cultural Competence & Preventing Health Disparities

Pharmacists and Pharmacy TechniciansAll Healthcare Professionals (No CME, ACPE, or OBMI/ARRT)

Dental ProfessionalsOregon Board of Medical Imaging Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Health disparities are an ongoing issue in the American healthcare system. These health disparities often occur because there are systematic barriers that make accessing health care more difficult for some groups. This program will look at the social determinants of health and some of the ways that culture can affect health beliefs. Also, this program introduces the concept of cultural competence as a process to improve patient interactions. The goal of this training is to expose the learner to these ideas and tools to prevent health disparities.

This course is approved by the Oregon Health Authority’s Office of Equity and Inclusion as an educational training all health care professionals

Pharmacists are positioned to play a critical role in shifting who has access to tools for HIV prevention by making HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) more visible and accessible to those who stand to benefit most.

The individuals most at risk of acquiring HIV in their lifetime are also more likely to experience stigma from providers and encounter significant barriers to care. Those same individuals are also more likely to engage with their community pharmacy than with other healthcare providers.

Pharmacists and technicians play a vital role in reducing the number of new HIV diagnoses by making PrEP and PEP more visible and equitably accessible at pharmacies, and by providing care that is trauma-informed and culturally aware.

This course is available for any pharmacist or pharmacy technician, but some states have their own version to include state specific resources and protocols. Please check for the correct course before registering.

Pharmacists

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Pharmacy Technicians

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Contraceptive Education for the Prescribing Pharmacist

Women’s access to oral and transdermal contraceptives continues to expand throughout the United State by allowing pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives. Comprehensive Contraceptive Education for the Prescribing Pharmacist, an online training course, is now available for pharmacists practicing in participating states. The course, developed by Oregon State University College of Pharmacy faculty with guidance from the Oregon Board of Pharmacy, the Oregon Health Authority, and others, prepare pharmacists to take on this new duty of prescribing hormonal birth control.

Registration Available Now for the Following States:

Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Delaware Hawaii
Idaho Illinois Indiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan
Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire Oregon South Carolina
Tennessee Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia

 

Successful Implementation of Patient Assessment & Proper Billing

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This program is based on the billing components and processing construct built in the State of Oregon. The billing mechanics presented here place the pharmacist’s clinical assessments in the same category as all other medical practitioners who assess patients. Topics covered in this course provide an overview of the healthcare payer environment in the United States, recognize how Medicaid is administered, credentialing/enrollment and billing mechanics utilized to build a pharmacist prescribing and reimbursement model, and the fundamentals of medical billing including HCPS, CPT and ICD10 codes. A pharmacist must fully understand the professional implications, including the audit responsibility in the utilization of billing codes with the associated liability. Therefore, it is imperative that pharmacists be fully trained on the elements that must be present and exhibit professionalism when properly utilizing billing codes. These concepts and content will also apply similarly in additional states who enable pharmacists to assess patients and bill for those services.

Comprehensive Pharmacist Patient Assessment, Prescribing, and Billing for Oregon's Tobacco Cessation Implementation

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy, in partnership with the OHA, has led the creation of this training, which exceeds all requirements set forth by the Oregon Board of Pharmacy for approved training for tobacco cessation prescribing. The course is uniquely designed to educate the Oregon pharmacist on assessing and prescribing tobacco cessation medications based solely upon the Oregon Board of Pharmacy’s Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee guidelines. The training is authored by the subject matter experts who were engaged in advising the PHPFAC and OBOP to create the Tobacco Cessation Patient Intake Form and Tobacco Cessation Assessment and Treatment Care Pathway.

Oregon Pharmacist Courses 

Comprehensive Pharmacist Patient Assessment, Prescribing, and Billing for Oregon's Tobacco Cessation Implementation

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy, in partnership with the OHA, has led the creation of this training, which exceeds all requirements set forth by the Oregon Board of Pharmacy for approved training for tobacco cessation prescribing. The course is uniquely designed to educate the Oregon pharmacist on assessing and prescribing tobacco cessation medications based solely upon the Oregon Board of Pharmacy’s Public Health and Pharmacy Formulary Advisory Committee guidelines. The training is authored by the subject matter experts who were engaged in advising the PHPFAC and OBOP to create the Tobacco Cessation Patient Intake Form and Tobacco Cessation Assessment and Treatment Care Pathway.

Contraceptive Education for the Oregon Pharmacist

Women’s access to oral and transdermal contraceptives continues to expand throughout the United State by allowing pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives. Comprehensive Contraceptive Education and Certification, an online certification course, is now available for pharmacists practicing in participating states. The course, developed by Oregon State University College of Pharmacy faculty with guidance from the Oregon Board of Pharmacy, the Oregon Health Authority, and others, prepare pharmacists to take on this new duty of prescribing hormonal birth control.

Emergency Preparedness, Response, and the Role of the Oregon Pharmacist

This continuing education course provides pharmacists with valuable background on preparedness and emergency response. It reviews simple strategies to keep family members safe and maintain critical pharmacy operations at work during public health emergencies. The course reviews the legal framework for pharmacy emergency response in Oregon and describes specific activities through which pharmacists can meet the pharmaceutical needs of their communities during public health incidents.

Successful Implementation of Patient Assessment & Proper Billing

This program is based on the billing components and processing construct built in the State of Oregon. The billing mechanics presented here place the pharmacist’s clinical assessments in the same category as all other medical practitioners who assess patients. Topics covered in this course provide an overview of the healthcare payer environment in the United States, recognize how Medicaid is administered, credentialing/enrollment and billing mechanics utilized to build a pharmacist prescribing and reimbursement model, and the fundamentals of medical billing including HCPS, CPT and ICD10 codes. A pharmacist must fully understand the professional implications, including the audit responsibility in the utilization of billing codes with the associated liability. Therefore, it is imperative that pharmacists be fully trained on the elements that must be present and exhibit professionalism when properly utilizing billing codes. These concepts and content will also apply similarly in additional states who enable pharmacists to assess patients and bill for those services.

Pharmacist Medical Billing Toolkit

Pharmacists are expanding beyond the traditional dispensing model and moving to new workflow models that are revolutionizing pharmacy practice. Offering clinical services through expanded scope of practice allows Oregon pharmacists to help reduce inequities and increase access to care for those who could benefit most. The Pharmacist Medical Billing Toolkit provides pharmacists with the knowledge to receive reimbursement for clinical services. This course will provide pharmacists with the understanding of the steps to medically bill, including identifying services, strategies for implementation, credentialing and contracting/enrollment, setting up the ability to bill and complete training, documenting and submitting medical claims, and revenue cycle management. Pharmacists will also learn the steps to credential and enroll with Oregon Medicaid Plans, and review documentation pearls to support medical claims.

Pharmacist Pharmacy Law

This course was developed by Oregon State University’s College of Pharmacy as an optional supplement to the course Patient Safety and Medication Error Reduction. This course discusses the qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations of the pharmacist. 

Patient Safety & Medication Error Prevention, Pharmacy Law, and Emergency Preparedness   

Patient Safety & Medication Error Prevention for Pharmacy

Patient safety is the number one priority in all pharmacy settings, with medication errors being the major contributing risk factor. New technology, reduction in workforce, and new medications mean the opportunity for error remains a major obstacle to overall patient safety. This unique course was developed to assist not only the Pharmacist but all pharmacy employees, including pharmacy technicians and other auxiliary personnel.  Medication error reduction will reduce risk, improve job satisfaction, lower expenses, improve your pharmacy's reputation, and most importantly, improve patient safety.

Developed collaboratively by Oregon State University College of Pharmacy and The Oregon Patient Safety Commission, this course provides the necessary tools to reduce risk, improve communication, and resolve factors that directly lead to medication errors.

Pharmacist Pharmacy LawTechnician Pharmacy Law

This course was developed by Oregon State University’s College of Pharmacy as an optional supplement to the course Patient Safety and Medication Error Reduction. This course discusses the qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations of the pharmacist. 

Emergency Preparedness, Response, and the Role of the Oregon Pharmacist

This continuing education course provides pharmacists with valuable background on preparedness and emergency response. It reviews simple strategies to keep family members safe and maintain critical pharmacy operations at work during public health emergencies. The course reviews the legal framework for pharmacy emergency response in Oregon and describes specific activities through which pharmacists can meet the pharmaceutical needs of their communities during public health incidents.

Naloxone Training & RESPOND Toolkit 

Naloxone: Opioid Overdose, Prevention, Recognition & Response

Drug overdose is the leading cause of injury death in the United States, causing more deaths than motor vehicle crashes. The CDC attributes the rise in drug overdose deaths to higher use of prescription opioid painkillers.
Providing overdose prevention, recognition, and response education to those who have been prescribed opioids, drug users, their families, and their neighbors is a harm reduction intervention that saves lives.
Heroin and other opioid overdoses are particularly amenable to intervention because risk factors are well understood and there is a safe antidote -- NALOXONE.

R.E.S.P.O.N.D. Toolkit

Opioid-related morbidity and mortality is a public health emergency strongly related to prescription opioid use. Pharmacists are well-positioned to reduce risks associated with opioid prescriptions and serve as a resource for other harms reduction activities. RESPOND - Resources Encouraging Safe Prescription Opioid and Naloxone Dispensing – is intended to help community pharmacists identify patients for whom an opioid prescription may present a safety risk, communicate more effectively with patients at the point of care, and coordinate with prescribers to maximize patient safety in the use of prescription opioid pain relievers. 

Pharmacy Law  

Technician Pharmacy Law

This course was developed by Oregon State University’s College of Pharmacy as an optional supplement to the course Patient Safety and Medication Error Reduction. This course discusses the qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations of the pharmacist. 

Cultural Competence & Preventing Health Disparities

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

Health disparities are an ongoing issue in the American healthcare system. These health disparities often occur because there are systematic barriers that make accessing health care more difficult for some groups. This program will look at the social determinants of health and some of the ways that culture can affect health beliefs. Also, this program introduces the concept of cultural competence as a process to improve patient interactions. The goal of this training is to expose the learner to these ideas and tools to prevent health disparities.

This course is approved by the Oregon Health Authority’s Office of Equity and Inclusion as an educational training all health care professionals

Developing Pharmacy Technician Knowledge of Opioid Use Disorder

Opioid Use Disorder

This activity was developed to educate pharmacy technicians about the opioid crisis and the role of harm reduction in improving care for patients with opioid use disorder.

Patient Safety and Medication Error Prevention

Patient Safety

Change pharmacy culture and error responses to improve workflow processes and prevent medication errors.

OSHP Virtual Seminar

OSHP offers several online webinar-style educational programs available for continuing pharmacy education credits. Each activity is worth 1 hours of ACPE accredited continuing education, which will be uploaded to your CPE Monitor.

Colorado Pharmacy Courses

Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Education for the Colorado Pharmacist 

Offered in Partnership with the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The comprehensive training program “Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Education for the Colorado Pharmacist” and all supporting materials were developed in Colorado via a collaborative group of clinical experts and dedicated stakeholders in the pharmacy profession. We are honored to partner with Oregon State University to offer this training program that allows Colorado pharmacists to meet the requirements necessary to provide smoking cessation care to eligible adults in our state.

This training program will provide you the educational resources to safely prescribe smoking cessation therapies. It includes background information (prevalence, burden of tobacco use, addiction and intervention strategies), comprehensive review of medication therapies (pharmacology, clinical approaches to treatment options, and crucial counseling points), practical and business considerations, and finally, Colorado-specific protocol information to apply to your practice.

 

Contraceptive Education and Certification for the Prescribing Colorado Pharmacist

Women’s access to oral and transdermal contraceptives continues to expand throughout the United State by allowing pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives. Comprehensive Contraceptive Education and Certification, an online certification course, is now available for pharmacists practicing in participating states. The course, developed by Oregon State University College of Pharmacy faculty with guidance from the Oregon Board of Pharmacy, the Oregon Health Authority, and others, prepare pharmacists to take on this new duty of prescribing hormonal birth control.

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