Practice Advancement Initiative 2030: Achieving the Initiative’s Vision

ASHP's Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI) 2030 provides pharmacy teams with guidance on advancing healthcare, patient outcomes, and pharmacy practice through 59 recommendations.

The 2024 Midyear offers programming related to the PAI 2030 focused initiatives and each of the five PAI 2030 recommendation domains.

PAI 2030 Assessment Tool action plan trends through September 2024 identify the following actions as the most feasible and impactful.

• Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, learners, and interns should engage in or lead medication reconciliation processes and medication education in a collaborative, interprofessional fashion across the care continuum and particularly during admission, discharge, in ambulatory care clinics, and in the emergency department.
• Documentation made by pharmacists related to patient care should be available to community pharmacies and external healthcare providers.
• Require completion of an ASHP/ACPE-accredited technician education and training program for newly hired pharmacy technicians.
• Pharmacy technicians should have complete responsibility for advanced technical and supporting activities, such as the compounding of sterile preparations satisfying quality, safety, and environmental control requirements and provisioning of automated dispensing cabinets.
• Individualized continuing professional development plans for pharmacists should be required.

The PAI 2030 Assessment Tool helps identify areas in one’s practice or organization where PAI 2030 recommendations could have the biggest impact. By completing this gap assessment, an organization can gauge conformity with the PAI 2030 recommendations, analyze results to identify areas for improvement, and develop a customized list of priorities for implementing change. Over 1,100 assessments have been completed or are in progress to help influence the formation of goals and objectives for a practice setting, organization, or a state affiliate effort.

Bringing stories to life is one of the best ways to enable others to act. Whether it is the process used to mobilize the completion of the assessment tool or modeling a path forward, amplifying successes inspires a shared vision to demonstrate progress with a focused initiative or a set of recommendations. Examples of recent efforts include:

• Advocate Health’s work toward a shared vision of pharmacy practice
• Student perspectives on implementing PAI in a student society of health-system pharmacists
• Collaboration between the Puerto Rico (PR) affiliate, a school of pharmacy, and hospital pharmacies with the level of adoption for the ASHP PAI 2030 recommendations by PR hospitals
• Defining an ideal state for critical care pharmacy practice models
• Integration of a clinical pharmacist practitioner–led pharmacogenomics service in a Veterans Affairs hematology/oncology clinic
• Development of a pharmacy technician training program and advanced technician roles

Additionally, the Iowa Pharmacy Association and Bon Secours Mercy Health are assessing practice across their state and system, respectively. They intend to create action plans and develop specific areas for action as part of their practice advancement strategy.

We want to hear your stories! If you have a PAI 2030-related story you would like share on topics such as ensuring seamless transitions of care; expanding the scope of pharmacist practices to include prescribing; leveraging artificial intelligence for efficiency of pharmacy operations; and pharmacy technicians taking on expanded roles, then please share at [email protected].

To learn more about PAI 2030 visit www.ashp.org/pai and direct questions to [email protected].