Sauer Barbara L
School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2006 Jun 15;70(3):54. doi: 10.5688/aj700354.
To assess a community geriatrics advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) that aimed to improve students' attitudes towards older adults and provide a student-directed learning experience.
Students provided blood pressure monitoring and medication counseling to older adults living in a low-income residential facility as part of a required 6-week ambulatory care service-learning APPE. Pre-experience and post-experience essays on students' perceptions of the elderly and their intended and actual learning were retrospectively reviewed using a qualitative process to determine whether the course objectives were met.
Many students initially described older adults in factual terms or using negative descriptors. Most expressed a desire to increase their knowledge of diseases commonly occurring in and drugs commonly prescribed for the elderly or to improve specific skills. Many students initially had difficulty articulating clear and measurable learning objectives and appropriate assessment metrics, which are important components of self-directed learning. The final essays revealed many students learned more about the humanistic aspects of care than they had anticipated.
This community-based geriatrics experience improved students' attitudes towards working with older adults and provided practice in developing and assessing their personal learning objectives.
评估一项社区老年药学高级药学实践经验（APPE），该经验旨在改善学生对老年人的态度，并提供以学生为导向的学习体验。
作为为期6周的门诊护理服务学习APPE的一部分，学生为居住在低收入住宅设施中的老年人提供血压监测和用药咨询。使用定性方法回顾性地审查学生对老年人的看法以及他们预期和实际学习情况的经验前和经验后文章，以确定是否达到课程目标。
许多学生最初用事实性语言或使用负面描述词来描述老年人。大多数学生表示希望增加对老年人常见疾病和常用药物的了解，或提高特定技能。许多学生最初难以阐明清晰且可衡量的学习目标和适当的评估指标，而这些是自主学习的重要组成部分。最终文章显示，许多学生对护理人文方面的了解比他们预期的更多。
这种基于社区的老年药学经验改善了学生与老年人合作的态度，并为制定和评估个人学习目标提供了实践机会。
