Pharmacy Students Collaborate with Family Nurse Practitioners’ Mobile Health Clinic

On Tuesday, March 15 three P2 students Cuihong Leung, Kc Taylor, and Hayley Shuman and two clinical faculty, Dr. Asim Abu-Baker and Dr. Huma Ibrahim, from the CHSU College of Pharmacy, participated in a Mobile Health Clinic in collaboration with Fresno State University’s Family Nurse Practitioner faculty and students at St. Joseph Church in Firebaugh.  The PharmD faculty and students assisted by providing patient education, medication reconciliation, and blood pressure screenings.  The PharmD students also assisted with interpretation services and worked side by side with their Nurse Practitioner colleagues.  The objective of the event was to enhance the patients’ understanding of their disease and medication therapy.  In addition, this was a wonderful opportunity for students from diverse health science programs to work together to provide patient care and to learn about, from, and with each other.
   
Interprofessional education activities, which are becoming required by many accreditation standards, contribute to our students being practice ready at the time of graduation and have tremendous behavioral and communication benefits.  This activity is a part of the co-curricular/service learning curriculum offered by Fresno State FNP and CHSU’s Doctor of Pharmacy program in order to advance our interprofessional education collaboration.  The Mobile Health Clinic is an event that will be occurring weekly for the remainder of the semester.