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The Grass(roots) is Always Greener: Maintaining Advocacy During a Pandemic

ACPE Number: 0204-0000-21-071-H04-P, 0204-0000-21-071-H04-T
Release Date: September 30, 2021
Expiration Date: September 30, 2024
Activity Type: Knowledge-based
CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Activity Fee: Members – Free / Non-Member – Free

 This activity is a recording from a live webinar and those that claim credit for the live webinar should not claim credit for this activity.

Activity Overview

With the expansion of the grassroots movement in NY state, members have come off the sidelines to become more involved in advocacy events, such as legislative visits. This was ever-present during the COVID-19 pandemic where we needed to shift our approach to legislative visits due to social distancing and educate our members on the new COVID-19 related legislation. While a pandemic can shift responsibilities and create new barriers to advocacy, it is important to continue advocacy efforts as there may be new opportunities to elevate pharmacy practice in pandemic-related legislation.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Target Audience

This activity will discuss grassroots advocacy efforts, including specific steps to setting up and completing a successful legislative visit. While the session will discuss pharmacy-specific examples, the principles and importance of grassroots advocacy can be applied to any profession.

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss elements of a successful grassroots advocacy strategy.

  2. Explain the relationship between advocacy and the legislative visit.

  3. Identify changes to grassroots advocacy during COVID-19 that allowed the continuation of legislative visits.

  4. Discuss resources to support grassroots efforts, both during and after a pandemic.

Schedule of Activities

  • Introduction and Announcements
  • Presentation
  • Questions, Answers, and Discussion

Faculty

  • Karen Berger, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCCM, BCPS, BCCCP, Neurocritical Care Clinical Pharmacy Manager, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
  • Andrew Kaplan, Pharm.D., BCPS, Associate Director of Pharmacy, Mount Sinai West, New York, NY

Disclosures

In accordance with the ACPE's and ACCME's Standards for Commercial Support, anyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity is required to disclose to the accredited provider their relevant financial relationships. In accordance with these Standards, all potential conflicts of interest have been resolved. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if he or she (or spouse/domestic partner) has a financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 12 months with a commercial interest whose products or services are discussed in the activity content over which the individual has control.

As defined by ACCME, a commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The Standards for Commercial Support do not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. The existence or non-existence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. All identified conflicts of interest must be resolved prior to the activity.

  • All planners, presenters, reviewers, and ASHP staff report no financial relationships relevant to this activity. 

Methods and CE Requirements

This activity consists of a recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP eLearning Portal. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity.

Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Claim your CE at http://elearning.ashp.org. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.