White Paper: Certification, Credentials, and Credentialing in Pharmacy

Authors

Donald Kishi, TRIUMF
Jeffery A. Goad, Chapman UniversityFollow
Nancy Korman, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Teresa Miller, Stanford University
Mary Ferrill, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Holly Strom, University of California - Los Angeles

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

Abstract

The rapid evolution of the health care system has provided the pharmacy profession with opportunities to expand existing and develop new direct patient care roles. Two critical challenges that the pharmacy profession must contend with to ensure the continued expansion and acceptance of pharmacists in advanced practice roles (e.g. direct patient care roles) are: (1) To develop and implement a credible, systematic, standards-based, and profession-wide plan that includes a system for identifying the types of pharmacists' practices requiring credentials, a validated certification process, and a computerized credentialing process that is current, comprehensive, and easily accessible; (2) To establish the credibility of these advanced practice credentials and the certification and credentialing processes with other health care providers, the public, employers and payers (government and commercial).

Comments

This article was originally published in the California Journal of Health-System Pharmacists, volume 12, issue 3, in 2000.

Recommended Citation

Kishi D, Goad JA, Korman N, Miller T, Ferrill M, Strom H. White Paper: Certification, Credentials, and Credentialing in Pharmacy. California Journal of Health-System Pharmacists 2000;12(3):4-10

Copyright

California Society of Health-System Pharmacists