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 Launched by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) in 1995, NIPCO is the national accrediting organization for pharmacist care education and training programs leading to the pharmacist care Diplomate credential and a leading authority in helping community pharmacists develop new market niches focused on patient care services.
Purchase NIPCO services, publications, billing tools, and CE programs through the NIPCO Product Guide PDF (536k).
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Pharmacist Care® is a comprehensive approach to pharmacist-directed patient care management through which community pharmacists provide an expanded level of patient care that focuses on disease prevention and wellness and includes monitoring, evaluating, counseling, intervening, and directing medication-related therapies to enhance patient care and improve health outcomes.
Diplomates
A Pharmacist Care Diplomate is one who has successfully completed three, 15-hour NIPCO-Accredited Certificate programs. Please click here for a current list of pharmacists who have been recognized as Pharmacist Care Diplomates PDF (67k).
» NIPCO Program Approval Guidelines
» Pharmacist Care Diplomate Credential
» Pharmacist Care Model |
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Education
Educational programs are offered as part of the Pharmacist Care Diplomate Curriculum to help community pharmacists attain the Pharmacist Care Diplomate Credential. All of the educational programs are based on the Pharmacist Care Model, which includes patient data collection, patient assessment, pharmacist care interventions, patient care evaluation and pharmacist care documentation.
The curriculum is designed to ensure payors and patients that Pharmacist Care Diplomates can provide Pharmacist Care in a quality, competent, consistent, and reliable manner. In doing so, payors and patients will be more willing to compensate pharmacists for their care. Participants receive a minimum of 15 ACPE CE credit hours and a Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing each education program.
NIPCO certificate programs and other NIPCO products can be found in the NIPCO Product Guide. Certificate program guidelines have been developed by NIPCO that are used to accredit certificate programs developed by other organizations. If you have a certificate program and you would like to have it accredited, please consult the NIPCO Program Approval Guidelines.
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Marketing
To advance the widespread implementation of Pharmacist Care, NIPCO promotes Pharmacist Care and Pharmacist Care Diplomates to employers, insurance companies, third-party administrators, health benefit managers and employee groups, health benefit consultants, other health care practitioners, public policy makers, and the public at large for the purpose of creating an awareness of the importance of Pharmacist Care and its value to patients. |
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Research
Additionally, NIPCO conducts economic research to document the quality and cost effectiveness of Pharmacist Care, to validate compensation plans for Pharmacist Care, and to facilitate the development of standards for data interchange of Pharmacist Care between payors and providers.
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The Community Pharmacy Patient Care Services Survey is a brief survey developed by Shenandoah University through a grant from the NCPA Foundation regarding patient care services that may be offered at a community pharmacy to establish important baseline benchmarks for documenting pharmacists’ expansion into patient care service niches. Click here to download the survey.
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