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Tip of the Week: Deploy Technicians to Assist with Appointment-Based Care Delivery Models
Technicians can also greatly assist managers with design considerations and with monitoring the success in appointment-based model med sync programs.
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Tip of the Week: Keep Up With Issues Affecting Pharmacy Viability
It is important that our national and even state and local professional pharmacy organizations are coming together as a voice for the profession.
Tip of the Week: Pharmacists, Students, Other Employees Can Benefit from Financial Literacy
Larger corporations might consider holding some sort of financial literacy training for pharmacy employees.
Tip of the Week: Proper Managerial Accounting Reduces Risks
Proper accounting systems and mechanisms assist not only in daily decision-making but in operations control and risk management.
Tip of the Week: Find Collaborations Beyond the Obvious
Collaboration can manifest as referrals, joint community outreach, and networking.
Tip of the Week: Develop Devoted Customers
Study results revealed a significant correlation between perceived quality of pharmacy structure, pharmacy engagement, and customer devotion.
Tip of the Week: Adult Learning is a Wise Investment for Onboarding New Employees
Investing in adequate education and training of new employees up front can save a considerable amount of time and money on the back end.
Tip of the Week: Promote Adherence Among Vulnerable Populations
Patient-related factors and external support are influential in vulnerable patients' medication adherence.
Tip of the Week: Prescribing Medicines Must Be Done With Confidence and Competence
If pharmacists increasingly take up the prescribing mantle, then they must see to their competence to exercise that authority.
Tip of the Week: Carefully Consider Merchandising to Supplement Pharmacy Services
Deciding what goods to sell and how to arrange them will dictate the patient’s interactivity and experience.
Tip of the Week: Effective Changes in Practice Can be Spurred by Small Adjustments
Dispensing naloxone provides an example of how small changes can make a significant difference.
Tip of the Week: Routine Opioid Outcome Monitoring in Community Pharmacy Presents Opportunities
With a simple intervention, pharmacists came off as compassionate and caring while their efficacy in treating patients improved.
ABM Offers Opportunity for Professional Growth
Appointment-based models are typically most effective when all pharmacy team members participate.
Tip of the Week: View Clinical Reasoning as a Practice Mindset
Effective use of clinical reasoning might indeed be one of the major driving forces behind practice change toward more patient-centric care.
Tip of the Week: Be Mindful to Minimize Practice Risks
Simple steps to minimize risk are easily overlooked when pharmacies get busy.
Tip of the Week: Utilize a Job Analysis for Precepting Future Pharmacists
Pharmacy managers should have recommendations for how staff pharmacists and even technicians will improve the education and mentoring of future pharmacists.
Tip of the Week: Ethical Decision Making Can Save Lives, Improve the Pharmacy Organization
High-level ethical decision making considers various ethical components and all stakeholders.
Tip of the Week: Use Mindfulness To Be An Effective Leader
Effective pharmacy managers help everyone to see the proverbial forest through the trees.
Tip of the Week: Broaden Your View of Value Creation for Services
It is important to step back and see value creation for services from a broader and more fundamental perspective than the individual, daily tasks in the pharmacy.
Tip of the Week: It’s All About Quality
Quality refers to a set of systems that minimizes errors, maximizes performance and efficiency, and which provides the user with an optimal experience to receive the greatest health benefits.
Tip of the Week: Use Technology Wisely
Each technology should be evaluated on its own merit and, importantly, in appropriate context for your organization given other resources.
Assisting Older Adults With Medication Use Can Reduce Errors
Areas of focus include drug discrepancies during transitions of care, polypharmacy, and promotion of self-management.
Tip of the Week: Relationship Marketing Can Help Meet Patients’ Health Care Needs
By maintaining relationships, pharmacists can create a successful practice and pharmaceutical care services will expand.
Tip of the Week: Employee Coaching Can Combat Professional Isolation in New Pharmacists
Managers can mitigate transition-related stress in new pharmacists by encouraging mentoring from senior staff.
Tip of the Week: An Implementation Framework Is Key to Launching MTM Service
Evidence suggests that there are many barriers to the proper implementation of MTM services, including time constraints and lack of staff support.
Tip of the Week: Find Opportunities to Create Value for Various Types of Patients
All patients present opportunities, but patients who might be considered more challenging due to their condition are often the cases where pharmacists might make the greatest difference
Tip of the Week: Pharmacy Technicians Can Obtain Patient Medication Histories
Pharmacy technicians can help provide value-added services that save time and even promote patient safety.
Reconciling Medications in Mental Health Assessments Protects Patients
Process helps prevent errors for individuals with chronic disorders who often have a higher risk of drug-drug interactions.
Tip of the Week: Medication Synchronization Works Best When Properly Planned for Sustainability
Medication synchronization may be beneficial, but understanding how to integrate the service into operations is just as important as offering the service itself.
Tip of the Week: Documenting Patient Interventions Is Essential
Pharmacists are taking advantage of new opportunities, but there remain many other opportunities yet to be seized.