Article # 5:
Title: The NC Tars Project: Students leading the way to educate patients
about proper use of antibiotics, and to assess patient
knowledge regarding proper antibiotic use and the threat of antibiotic
resistance.
Aim of Intervention:
To describe a North Carolina Taking Antibiotic Resistance
Seriously (NC Tars) project involving a student pharmacist coalition educating
patients about appropriate use of antibiotics.
Target Population: The general public who entered selected
pharmacies during period of experiment.
Target Place: Selected pharmacies, in the metropolitan area
of Charlotte, North Caroline, USA.
Time Period: October
2008
Intervention Tool(s): Pharmacy Students from the Wingate
University School of Pharmacy were educated on the importance of
antibiotic safety and the threat of antibiotic resistance, and groups of
students were assigned to local community pharmacies where they assessed
patients' knowledge of antibiotic resistance.
Technology: -
Results: Patient knowledge was
increased. Patients reported that the information provided by the student
pharmacists was beneficial and would be useful in the future.
Costs: -
Personal Reflection:
Pros: Individually focused, convenient location, allows direct
educational exposure of pharmacist students to antibiotic awareness of the
general public, encourages building student-patient interactions, allows for
pharmacy students to solidify their knowledge through information sharing.
Cons: requires wait time for participants, requires approval
from individual participants, only targets those who entered a drug store,
feedback from participants may have been biased, a slow method for spreading
educational awareness on the rational use of antibiotics.
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