Recorded Pharmacist Educational Series: Better Safe Than Sorry: The Pharmacist's Role in Disaster Management
ACPE Activity Number:0204-0000-26-025-H04-P Release Date: 7/8/2026 Expiration Date: 7/8/2029 Activity Type: Knowledge-based CE Credits: 0.5 contact hour Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available
Activity Overview
This presentation will equip pharmacists with a framework for disaster management and highlight their crucial role in preparedness, response, and recovery. It will draw on ASHP's statement on the role of health-system pharmacists in emergency preparedness, FEMA's National Incident Management System (NIMS), and lessons from recent disasters such as COVID-19 and hurricanes. This session will emphasize strategies related to medication safety, supply chain continuity, and interprofessional collaboration, with the goal of preparing pharmacists for active integration into hospital disaster plans during crises.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education with Commendation.
This activity is designed for pharmacists to increase awareness of disaster preparedness frameworks, highlight the clinical and operational roles of pharmacists in disaster response, and provide strategies for maintaining safe and effective patient care during emergencies.
In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience.
No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company.
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