Protocol Training

Protocol Training for Kentucky Pharmacists

Pharmacists have long collaborated with physicians and other prescribers to provide immunization services via protocol, and more recently, with physicians to initiate the dispensing of naloxone under protocol. In 2017, the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy promulgated regulation 201 KAR 2:380, Board authorized protocols. This regulation established procedures by which pharmacists, acting under the direction of a prescriber, can provide mutually agreed-upon services as outlined in a specific care protocol. With implementation of this regulation, the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy is able to review and approve protocols for a list of authorized conditions. Approved protocols can be found on the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy website.

Per the regulation, prior to implementing protocol-driven care for an authorized condition, pharmacists must first receive education and training in the content of the protocol.

The Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Practice at the UK College of Pharmacy has developed CE programs designed to assist pharmacists in implementing protocol-driven care. Click the links below to access our online CE protocol trainings and implementation toolkit resources.

Urinary Tract Infection (Home Study) link to https://www.cecentral.com/uti

Emergency Contraception (Home Study) link to https://www.cecentral.com/ec

We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.

In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.

We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.

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