The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners Pharmacists' Patient Care Process provides a standardized framework for pharmacist's delivery of patient care in any setting promoting consistency in care provision, patient and provider expectations, and measuring health outcomes. 

The repository from Guideline Central^© provides quick access to summaries for over 2,600 clinical practice guidelines from more than thirty-five government agencies and medical societies encompassing a wide range of specialties and practice settings. Full text viewing and downloading are available for most guidelines, but a few require a subscription or institutional access to the journal.

The McMaster University Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Center offers a range of resources for those new to using guidelines to those interested in participating in guideline development. The GRADE learning hub has an extensive list of presentations and publications available on the development of guidelines and systematic reviews. The tools start with guideline terminology and the basics of the GRADE process and continue through building collaborations and all aspects of the writing and review process. The GIN-McMaster guideline toolkit provides detailed checklists and templates as well as an extensive on-line documents for reference. The toolkit is the work of a collaboration between the McMaster GRADE center and the Guidelines International Network (GIN). The website also features recent projects highlighting their collaboration with organizations updating or developing new guidelines. These may serve as useful examples to share with students and residents. 

This paper, written by the members of the 2022 ACCP Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines, discusses the benefits of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), reviews the guideline development process, discusses limitations in this process and in applying CPGs to patient care, identifies opportunities for improvement, provides considerations for educating learners and other health care professionals about CPGs, and examines the role of pharmacists in CPG development, dissemination, and implementation. It is an excellent resource for clinical pharmacists utilizing CPGs in their practice, as well as for students, residents, faculty, and preceptors discussing CPGs with learners and trainees.

The playbook, developed by the Anticoagulation Forum (AC Forum) in partnership with the National Quality Forum (NQF) and funded by the FDA, provides updated guidance on implementing an anticoagulation stewardship program as well as recommendations for the maintenance and improvement of existing programs. By using the playbook, the AC Forum believes organizations can reduce preventable adverse drug events, improve patient care, and foster a culture of safety and excellence.

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Opioid Stewardship Playbook represents the work of the NQF member organizations as well as both public and private-sector stakeholders. More than forty experts developed the playbook to provide guidance for healthcare organizations and clinicians committed to appropriate pain management strategies and opioid stewardship across all healthcare settings. 

Additional NQF playbooks on improving access for individuals with serious mental health, antibiotic stewardship in acute care, antibiotic stewardship in post-acute and long-term care, shared decision making, and supporting shared decision making for individuals with chronic and end-stage renal disease are available on this webpage. 

The CDC Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship site offers providers and healthcare facilities a set of key principles to guide appropriate antibiotic use that will improve outcomes and increase patient safety. There is specific guidance for implementing antibiotic stewardship teams in hospital settings, including small and critical access hospitals and outpatient settings, health departments, nursing homes, and resource-limited locations. In addition to the steps for implementation, this site also provides links to educational materials for patients, continuing education resources for healthcare providers, and tools for reporting data to the CDC.

This resource, developed in conjunction with the Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) in Primary Care study, provides clinicians with the tools and resources to effectively optimize their patients’ medications in a comprehensive, patient-centered, and team-based manner using the CMM process of care. In addition to guidance on implementing or transitioning to CMM, the platform provides tools for assessing and improving established CMM practices. The site also features an extensive resource library for students, residents, healthcare providers, and patients.

The Get the Medications Right Institute (GTMRx) is a collaborative made up of professional associations, healthcare providers, and payors who come together to encourage practice transformation along with payment and policy reform to create and support a systematic, evidence-based approach to medication use. The GTMRx website shares the work of physicians, clinical pharmacists, and other team members committed to medication optimization who have developed tools to educate healthcare providers, patient groups, Congress, CMS, and payors of the value of CMM and precision medicine. The site provides a wide range of resources for clinical pharmacists already utilizing or planning to implement CMM, including use cases describing CMM in a variety of practice settings. 

This editable document provides a template to support the creation of a collaborative practice agreement between a clinical pharmacist and physician. The template provides a structure including major headers, suggested language, and prompts for insertion of details informed by state or organization-specific regulations.

This web-based toolkit, developed by members of the 2023 Task Force on DEIA, includes resources for clinical pharmacists, trainees, and students as a part of ACCP’s commitment to build inclusive values into clinical pharmacy practice, education, and research. It includes over one hundred resources organized by topic, setting, and format. 

To facilitate implementation of the Pathways to Excellence in CLEs, NCICLE has initiated an annual call for resources from its member organizations focused on one of the six pathways. The NCICLE Teaming Resource Compendium includes resources organizations can use to support and promote interprofessional team development and continued quality improvement. The Teaming Resource Compendium includes over 40 resources such as journal articles, webinars, learning modules, and toolkits that have been linked or posted to the NCICLE.org website. The wide-ranging submissions from the NCICLE member organizations demonstrate the collective power of joining forces toward a common goal. 

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) consists of forty-one member organizations representing healthcare accrediting bodies and professional associations. ACCP is a member organization of NCICLE and participates in their work. The NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document is a tool to facilitate discussions that will lead to optimizing the clinical learning environment for patients as well as all members of the healthcare team, with a focus on the importance of the interface between learners and health care settings across the continuum of patient care. Based on the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) process utilized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to aid in determining reaccreditation, the six pathways include patient safety, health care quality, teaming, supervision, wellbeing, and professionalism. 

The second resource compendium from NCICLE provides tools related to the pathway on well-being and resilience. The Well-being Resource Compendium includes over thirty resources, with examples from all health care professions represented in NCICLE. The resources include evidence-based articles, webinars, learning modules, and toolkits. The compendium is posted on the NCICLE.org website. ACCP members are encouraged to explore the compendium and NCICLE website and share it with colleagues. By prioritizing well-being, we can continue to create environments where healthcare professionals and learners thrive. 

The third resource compendium from NCICLE focuses on developing and maintaining professionalism among members of healthcare teams. The Professionalism Resource Compendium includes over 20 resources from a wide range of professional associations and accrediting bodies. They range from how to create a culture of professionalism and assessing professionalism on an intraprofesional team to managing conflicts of interest and creating remediation plans for performance and conduct issues. 

The ACCP didactic curriculum toolkit is used by many colleges and schools of pharmacy as a guide for curricular development and revision since its inaugural publication in 2009. It is revised every 3 years by the ACCP Publications Committee to incorporate changes in pharmacy practice, advances in therapeutics, and updates in accreditation standards and professional competencies. 

The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has released a new resource for students interested in learning more about board certification. Faculty members and preceptors are encouraged to share these sources with their students or residents. The toolkit includes infographics, podcasts, and blogs targeted at students as well as a link to request a virtual presentation for students. 

This toolkit, developed by members of the Get the Medications Right Institute (GTMRx), is designed to provide pharmacy residents with a foundational knowlege of comprehensive medication management (CMM). It introduces the CMM philsophy of practice and patient care process, steps for implementation, and standards of practice management. There are links for tools on how to assess readiness to implement CMM or evaluate the performance of a CMM practice as well as use cases from a variety of pratice settings demonstrating the value of CMM. The toolkit also provides links to additional resources on the Optimizing Meds website and CMM-related materials on the ACCP and ASHP websites.

Access the national public awareness initiative highlighting the essential, direct patient care roles of clinical pharmacists.  Includes patient guides, video stories, podcasts, and other resources. 

A joint statement from 13 pharmacy organizations underscoring to the public the pharmacist’s essential role in shared decision-making about vaccines.