2008 Volume 34 Issue 6 Pages 544-551
We recently reported on a pharmacy-oriented SOAP (hereinafter referred to as P-SOAP) (Jpn.J.Pharm.Health Care Sci.31 : 320-328,2005).In the present study,we created step-up teaching materials whose objective was to educate pharmacists regarding P-SOAP.The purposes of these materials were (1)to achieve a good understanding of P-SOAP,(2)to develop a wide variety of patient instruction items,(3)to aid understanding of patients’drug-related and pathological conditions,(4)to aid pharmacists in learning how to initiate communication,and (5)to help them adapt instructions to patient needs.P-SOAP registry tests were performed before starting the initial practice and 3,5,8,and 11 months after starting it to evaluate the teaching materials.
Among 28 pharmacists who participated,16 were able to issue instructions on the use of drugs based on a thorough understanding of the pathological conditions of patients.The results of a comparison based on number of years after beginning employment at drug stores suggested that pharmacists in their first year had difficulty in studying pathological conditions in greater depth,those in the second to third year were able to achieve the goal of issuing instructions on the use of drugs based on a thorough understanding of pathological conditions through the practice of SOAP,and there were variations among those in their third year due to personal ability.Our results overall suggested that the use of the SOAP education materials would be useful for further enhancing pharmacists’capabilities after they had learned about the general aspects of drugs in the first year of employment at a drug store and gained a more detailed knowledge of them during the second year.
