Database of Health Workforce Innovations

708

Title

Hurricane Katrina: Pharmacists Making a Difference

Created

2020-08-28 12:03:41

Update time

2020-08-28 12:03:41

Brief Description of Challenge

Brief Description of Innovation

In the disaster response, pharmacists did more than dispense prescriptions:
- organized, moved, and reset the pharmacy
- guarded our supply of antidiarrheal medication and narcotics
- recommended treatments for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation from our limited formulary

Innovation – Increase Numbers

Solidarity staffing (eg deployments to/from other jurisdictions)
Other

Innovation – Increase Flexibility

New roles
Expanded roles

Innovation – Increase Availability

Worker

Pharmacy Workers

Task/Skill

Training / Retraining

Brief Description of Setting

A pharmacist from Rhode Island is deployed to Louisiana to respond to Hurricane Katrina as part of a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)

Setting - Organization

Emergency Medical Services
Hospitals

Setting - Geography

Facilitators

Barriers

Impact / Evaluation

Bratberg J. (2005). Hurricane Katrina: pharmacists making a difference. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA, 45(6), 654–658.

Link

https://doi.org/10.1331/154434505774909733

Contact

Jef Bratberg, PharmD

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Organization

University of Rhode Island

Phone Number

Country

USA

Expert Assessment – Impact

Assessed Risk - Workers

Assessed Risk - System

Assessed Risk – Patients

Expert Assessment – Confidence

Language

English

Type

Published Literature

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