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General News We hope you will join us for the 2021 NCAP Annual Convention, June 6-9. Contracting and planning for our Convention takes many months, and we were not sure when COVID restrictions, for large gatherings, would be lifted, so this year’s event will be virtual, once again. New this year, the Convention Planning Committee has created learning tracks for each of our four practice academies. However, as a convention registrant, you can attend any session you want throughout the four-day event. Plus, your registration will give you on-demand access to view sessions you missed until August 1. This convention’s live-stream programming has a total of 39.5 ACPE-accredited contact (or live) continuing education hours. Our ACPE accrediting partner is UNC Continuing Education Office. NCAP will be recording the vast majority of these sessions to repackage and reaccredit for on-demand (non-live) viewing. The on-demand version will be accredited, by NCAP, using NC-CE. On the morning of Monday, June 7, we will have a general session, provided by the NCAP President and Executive Director, designed to provide members and others with an update on our Association, including the status on our five bills in the NC General Assembly. Returning this year will
be two evenings of scientific posters, presented as mini-platform presentations, both of which are accredited for continuing education. We also have a total of four workshops for your professional development. The NCAP Staff extends ‘super kudos’ to this year’s Convention Planning Committee, and specifically, we thank the co-chairs, Dustin Wilson and Jacky Olin. Also, this year the practice academy chairs were instrumental in helping with the planning for academy-specific tracks. It takes a village, and our Convention is able to deliver high quality programming, every year, because of our volunteers’ expertise and hours of service. Please share this newsletter with your colleagues. The cost to attend Convention is extremely reasonable, particularly given the quality and diversity of topics, as well as the ease and flexibility in attending. Click here to Register.
Practice Development News The entire convention program is full of sessions designed to help you with practice enhancement, improved patient care, and your professional development. However, we specifically want to call attention to the four workshops that will be offered during the event. On Sunday, June 6, there will be two
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workshops that are timely because of some of our legislative work. First there is a workshop on long-acting injectables for behavioral health. Why is this workshop important? A new law will go into effect October 1 giving authority to pharmacists to administer long-acting injectable drugs. This workshop will review the pharmacology, safety parameters, injection technique and other important information that will be needed for those long-acting drugs that are used for behavioral health diagnoses. This workshop is a great way to begin preparing yourself for this new authority. Second, on this same day, we will have a workshop on hormonal contraception. Why is this important? We have a public health bill that is gaining traction, and it has a provision that would allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives. Our hormonal contraceptive workshop will provide an excellent pharmacotherapeutic review. On Wednesday, June 9, we have two more workshops. One is on the fundamentals of collaborative practice, obtaining your clinical pharmacist practitioner credential and developing a collaborative practice agreement. This workshop is NOT for individuals who are already CPPs and are looking to up their game. The target audiences will be individuals who have thought about becoming a CPP, and who may need some help getting started; and this workshop is for community pharmacists. Very few CPPs in our state work in community pharmacies. The workshop plans to highlight a number
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of services for which collaborative practice agreements would work well in traditional community pharmacy settings. The other workshop on the 9th will be on establishing clinical services. This workshop will utilize a new NCAP resource and toolkit to walk the participant through the steps for successfully establishing a new service.
Technician News Curious to know who NCAP’s Technician of the Year will be? Guess what? There are two recipients this year! I can’t tell you who they are in this article, but I can tell you they will be revealed during Convention. Register today and join us so you can find out the names of these two deserving recipients. You need more reasons to join us? I’ve got them! NCAP is excited to provide pharmacy technicians CE hours equal to the hours available to pharmacists at the 2021 Convention. As you may have heard, Convention is coming SOON. Convention will be Sunday, June 6th – Wednesday, June 9th and will be held in a virtual platform. How many hours are available to you? We have 39.5 CE hours available to technicians. This is the first year where all practice academies will be together in one event. With your registration, you will be able to attend any or every day of Convention if you choose. Each day is designed to target specific practice academies. Chronic care specific content will be on Monday, June 7th and Tuesday, June 8th. Health-systems specific content will be on Monday, June 7th. Community care specific content will be on Tuesday, June 8th. Ambulatory care specific content will be on Wednesday, June 9th. To take a peek at what each practice academy will be discussing in their sessions, see the Academies, Forums and Networks section in this newsletter. For a more detailed look, and to register for Convention, click here.
P.S. There are four outstanding workshops you can attend as well during Convention. See details in the Practice Advancement section of this newsletter.
practice academies will be presenting at Convention, see below. For a more detailed look and to get yourself registered, click here.
One more thing! If you are not an NCAP member, Convention registration is $125. A technician membership with NCAP is just $35. Attending Convention as a member, $50. That’s just $85 to join and attend. That sounds like a good deal to me. How about you?
Wednesday, June 9th
Academies, Forums & Network News During Convention, there will be academy specific programming each day; however, with your registration, you are welcome to attend any day, or every day, of Convention and partake of sessions whether they are targeted to your specific practice academy or not. NCAP’s 2021 Convention is accredited with 39.5 hours of CE for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. In addition to the daily programming, there are four outstanding workshops bookending our convention; two on Sunday, June 6th and two on Wednesday, June 9th. Find more information about these workshops in this newsletter under the Practice Advancement section. There will be a business meeting on Sunday, June 6th hosted by our Independent Pharmacy Network. The meeting is from 6:00 – 7:30 pm and is for owners, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in independent pharmacies. If you are a pharmacist in your first seven years of practice, NCAP’s New Practitioners Forum is hosting a virtual social on Tuesday, June 8th. This is a wonderful group to become a part of as you navigate your first several years of pharmacy practice. This will be a great opportunity to make new friends and connections across our state. To give you a peek at what each of the
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Ambulatory Care Ambulatory Care’s track will feature sessions on implicit bias; social determinants of health/equity; heart failure treatment; tele-disease monitoring; pharmacy practice in FQHC and RHC settings, as well as an hour of cutting-edge clinical pearls.
Chronic Care
Monday, June 7th Tuesday, June 8th Chronic Care’s track will take place over two days during Convention, Monday, June 7th and Tuesday, June 8th. The topics for this practice academy include, on Monday, Senior PharmAssist statewide survey results and Medicare Part D updates; overcoming vaccine hesitancy; post-COVID infection complications; anticoagulant updates and use of DOACs in special populations; SGLT2 inhibitors and their use in older adults. Tuesday’s track will pick up with osteo and rheumatoid arthritis updates; updates on new antipsychotics; prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in patients with asthma or COPD; non-pharmacologic interventions for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia; deprescribing; ending with the role of CBD in older adults.
Community Care Tuesday, June 8th
Community Care’s track will lead off with a discussion of the Rutledge v. PCMA supreme court ruling and move into two hours of hot topic clinical pearls. There will also be a 2-hour immunization update session (this
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session would satisfy 2 certification renewal hours), as well as a panel discussion on lessons learned from the field regarding COVID vaccine administration.
Health-Systems Monday, June 7th
Health-Systems track will have sessions that discuss the relevancy of NCAP’s advocacy to health-systems; ASHP policy process and House of Delegates role; post-COVID infection complications; resiliency; and an HSPA networking meeting.
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Exhibitor & Sponsor News We are excited to announce our Exhibitors and Sponsors for the 2021 NCAP Convention Virtual Exhibit Program. Be sure to check out the E-Booths in your Convention Package. Product materials will be displayed along with contact information so that you can connect with any of the representatives to learn more about the products and/ or services that they each have to offer and be entered into drawings to win great prizes!
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