Primary Care Staff Pharmacist

Shane D. Chafin

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Education

BSPharm, University of Cincinnati, 2001

Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP), Board of Pharmacy Specialties, 2016-2023

Certificates/Practice:

Coumadin Anticoagulation Monitoring and Adjustment, PSNZ

Uncomplicated Cystitis Treatment (TMP), PSNZ

Pulmonary Auscultation, Credentialing in the Workplace

Antecubital Venipuncture (blood draw), Credentialing in the Workplace

External Ear Canal Otoscopy, Credentialing in the Workplace

Clinical Triage (primary care), Credentialing in the Workplace

Vitals (BP, oxygen sat, pulse, respiration rate), Credentialing in the Workplace

Edema Assessment, Credentialing in the Workplace

Work experience

Miami Valley Hospital: Inpatient Pharmacy, March 2008-Oct 2013

Walgreens: Staff Pharmacist July-Dec 2022

CVS: Staff Pharmacist Jan 2023-Jan 2024

Private Consultant, Primary Care, 2019-Present

Medicines Management Group, Clinical Pharmacy Lead/Quality Control, 2018-2021

Northland DHB, Clinical Pharmacist Facilitator, Advanced Generalist Pharmacist Practitioner 2016-2019

Responsibilities

-Relationship building and consultation with patients to assess priority and desired direction of

care

-Review and assessment/physical assessment (within scope) of patient characteristics and

medical charts in order to facilitate clinical decision-making in regard to therapeutic

recommendation(s)

-Follow-up care

-Close consultation and review with medical providers, NPs and nurses

-Clinical accuracy and assistance in the development of Standing Orders for primary care

nursing staff to provide lower level interventions eg, NSAIDs for pain/pyrexia, treatment of

certain STIs, acute asthma exacerbation…

-Co-hosting workshops with a NP for primary care nurse training and academic/clinical

assessment of standing orders use

-Socializing new initiatives and clinical positions with primary care and retail pharmacy

-One-on-one educational sessions and presentations with MDs/NPs/RNs in order in influence

appropriate clinical therapeutic decision-making and prescribing based upon evidence.

-Practice management system documentation in SOAP format, including all recommendations

and changes to therapy

-Liaising with hospital staff in relation to discharge medications and patient clinical picture

-Inpatient rounding in Skilled Nursing Facilities with Doctors including physical assessment

(within scope) as well as conducting autonomous rounds when required

Skills

-Patient focused communications approach

-Medicines Management

-Physical assessment

-Prior HIV/AIDS focus (Miami Valley Hospital)

-Inpatient Hospital Practice (Miami Valley Hospital)

-Focus in Geriatrics

-Presentation experience (Wright State University/Primary Care)

-Pyxis/Epic experience

-Working with robotic dispensing

-Management Skills (prior retail experience)

-MDT

-Unaccredited physical assessment skills, such as capillary return, palpation for enlarged

glands, oral cavity visual exam, skin turgor, PERRLA

-Vancomycin dosing

-TPN

Personal interests

-Family

-Gaeilge (Irish language)

-Outdoor Activities

-Promoting Advanced Pharmacy Practice

-History

Community service

Volunteer role as Advanced Generalist Pharmacist Practitioner (AGPP) in a medical clinic for the transient-living for four years

Tutored adult learners in the G.E.D. program at Dee Russel Lee (Butler Tech)

Accomplishments

Five wonderful children

Developed the Advanced Practice Pharmacy Group (APPG) for Pharmacists seeking upskill to new levels of practice

Vice-president ASP, University of Cincinnati

Awards and honors

Golden Key Honor Society, University of Cincinnati

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