Antwerp, Belgium

Nurses and Interprofessional Pharmaceutical Care

For many patients, pharmaceutical care and medication management are crucial elements of their therapy. Healthcare providers collaborate to achieve high quality care and best patient outcomes. Nurses spend a lot of time managing patients’ medication, supporting patient self-management and adherence, educating patients, monitoring therapeutic and side effects, making decisions on medication use and guarding safety for the patient. The summer course addresses nurses’ roles, interprofessional collaboration, and best practices in nurse pharmaceutical care.


Day 1: Integrated, interprofessional pharmaceutical care
Frameworks for integrated, interprofessional pharmaceutical care, viewpoints of nurses, physicians and pharmacists, and challenges in clinical practice throughout the world.

Day 2: Evidence based interventions to improve the quality of pharmaceutical care
Interventions to improve the quality of nurse pharmaceutical care based on evidence and experiences of the international audience.

Day 3: Education and implementation in pharmaceutical care
Prerequisites for a successful implementation of interventions, including nurses’ competences, and reflections on what is needed for the future.

Day 4: Pharmaceutical care in specific patient populations
New evidence on how we can support high quality medicines use in specific populations looking at new guidelines and topics such as genomics, technology, …

Day 5: A team plan
International knowledge, experience and good practice will be shared, stimulating reflections on how the content of the training can be used back home. Together, we build a plan.

Target group

Health care providers, researchers and policy makers with a special interest in interprofessional pharmaceutical care.

Students need to be able to communicate (written and orally) in English.

As scientific articles and methods are used during courses, good understanding of general research methodology is required.

Credits info

3 EC
Successful completion of the summer school can be awarded with 3 credits according the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Credits will be awarded on the base of completing a brief assignment before the start of the programme and submitting a paper focusing on one of the summer school topics after the programme. Particpants completing this assignment will receive a certificate of completion. All certificates of completion are issued as a micro-credential.

Fee info

EUR 700: Regular fee (applying before 15 June): € 700

The fee includes orientation and course material, coffee breaks, lunches, social activities and network dinner. The registration fee does not include travel or accommodation.
EUR 600: Early bird (applying before 15 May) : € 600

The fee includes orientation and course material, coffee breaks, lunches, social activities and network dinner. The registration fee does not include travel or accommodation.