Motion: Adopt the following two policy statements:

1. APhA supports the integration of pharmacists as clinical research team members in all forms of clinical research, including but not limited to healthcare outcomes research, pre-marketing clinical trials, and post-marketing studies.
2. APhA encourages pharmacists and student pharmacists to build clinical research enterprise knowledge and specialized skills.

 Motion: Adopt the following three policy statements:

1. APhA advocates for the recognition and utilization of pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians to address diabetes prevention, such as through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program’s (National DPP) lifestyle change program.
2. APhA advocates for campaigns focused on increased community wellness awareness and health benefits knowledge in areas such as healthy eating and physical exercise for diabetes prevention and diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES). APhA recommends expanding the pharmacist’s role and pharmacy services, and building on the competencies noted in “EDUCATION, CURRICULUM AND COMPETENCE FOR PHARMACISTS, Pharmacist Training in Nutrition” to leverage pharmacists and pharmacies as a means of increasing patient education on nutrition and physical exercise in relation to diabetes prevention and DSMES.
3. APhA encourages the development of pharmacy curricula and continuing education on the topics of diabetes prevention and health promotion through improvements in modifiable risk factors.

Motion: To amend the following policy statement as shown:

            2007 Pharmacy Personnel Immunization Rates

3.  APhA encourages federal, state, and local public health officials to recognize pharmacists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy support staff among the highest priority groups as essential healthcare workers as first responders (e.g. physicians, nurses, police, etc.) and prioritize pharmacists to receive medications and immunizations during pandemics and/or other disaster preparedness and emergency response situations.

Motion: Adopt the new proposed policy regarding pharmacists’ application of professional judgment

Pharmacist’s application of professional judgment:

1. APhA supports pharmacists, as licensed health care professionals, in their unrestricted use of professional judgment throughout the course of their practice to act in the best interest of patients.
2. APhA asserts that a pharmacist's independent medication review and use of professional judgment in the medication distribution process is essential to patient safety.
3. APhA opposes the creation of state and federal laws that negate a pharmacist’s right to exercise professional judgment in the best interest of patients’ clinical outcomes.
4. APhA calls for civil, criminal, and legal liability protections for pharmacists and pharmacies if the right to use professional judgment is limited by state and federal laws.

During the Friday, November 5th Virtual Session, the APhA House of Delegates (HOD) received reports from the House Rules Review Committee and from the Policy Review Committee. In addition, the House acted on a Referred Business Item statement from the March 2021 HOD business session held during the 2021 APhA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exposition.