Meeting the National Need for Expertise in Pain Management with Clinical Pharmacist Advanced Practice Providers

摘要

Clinical pharmacist APPs can serve many unique roles inpain management, including pain stewardship championsand prescribers on interprofessional care teams. When clinicalpharmacist APPs are involved in providing pain management,quality of care and access improve. The successes theVA has seen with positioning clinical pharmacists APPs tomanage pain for rural patients can be considered forapplication to virtually any practice setting. The conceptscan be applied to non-VA settings through the use of CPAsand implementation of interprofessional care teams in primarycare or specialty clinics. Resources to assist in such implementationare available to those interested inimplementing or expanding clinical pharmacist APPs inpractice.