Evaluate the need for a management perspective to better serve patients and improve outcomes to drug therapy.
•Pharmacy is about juggling many things
•Increased productivity
•Workplace advancement
•Personal job satisfaction
Identify myths surrounding the practice of pharmacy and health care as a business.
•Practice of pharmacy is ethically inconsistent with good business:
•Business is not a profession guided by ethics
•In business, quality of care is secondary to generating profits
•A good pharmacist is one who is a clinical purist
-Have to have good management skills
Describe the evolution in the roles of pharmacists since the early 1900s until now.
1900-1940: Manufacturers & distributors, business oriented
1940-70: More technical, scientific
Can’t discuss drugs with patients
Viewed as employees not professionals
1970-90: Cost control, clinical pharmacy movement, PharmD
1990-Today: MTM, process not just clinical- management movement, Medicare pard D legislature,
Identify principal domains of pharmacy care.
1)Risk Management
2)Patient advocacy
3)Disease management
4)Pharmacy care services marketing
5)Business management
What is Risk Management
-Devise a system for data collection
-Obtain OTC med history
-Report adverse events to FDA
-Perform prospective drug utilization review
-Document therapeutic interventions and activities
-Triage patients needs for a proper referral
What is Patient Advocacy
-Patient advocate
-Patient wellness
-Friendly
-Call patients to follow up
What is Disease Management
-Monitor therapy
-Provide info on how to manage a disease state
What is Pharmacy care services marketing
-Be active member of associations
-Private consultation services
-Network
What is Business management
-Utilize resources to free up pharmacists time to devote more time to patient centered care
List the managerial sciences
1)Accounting
2)Finance
3)Economics
4)Marketing
5)Operations management
6)Value creation
7)Human resources management
Define management
The process of dealing with or controlling things or people
Define Manager
A person who has control or direction of an institution, business or of a part, division, or phase of it
•Specific organizational goal
•More hands-on than a leader
•In the weeds of the day to day operations
Define Leader
one who leads or commands a group, organization, or country
•Commanding authority or influence
•More abstract than a manager
The guy from corporate who walk in on a random day smiling and gives a pep talk
Discuss the elements of a manager's role within an organization
•Plans/makes decisions/ sets objectives
-What is the need? Set objectives, important to collaborate
Organizes:
How to accomplish?
What resources are needed?
What tasks must be done? Who Will do them?
Delegate!!!
Motivates & Communicates:
•Why staff should perform their tasks?
•Make sure that the team understands the goal
•Communciates tasks staff will be responsible for and desired outcome
-Do not micromanage
•Be specific about needs and deadlines
Staffing/Training/Developing
•Staffing is essential to guarantee operational functionality of organizations
Assess/Measures
•Is the team meeting pre-established objectives?
•Oversight and follow-up are important
How can a manager effectively manage Technicians & Non Pharmacy Staff
•Be nice to everyone?
•Could you…? Are you able to…? Please. Thank you
•Have their backs
Float Pharmacists
•Technicians are going to have to help float pharmacists
•Ask them how things went?
How can a manager effectively manage Float Technicians
•They will need more help than regular techs
•Briefly touch base to assess
•Let them know what they are responsible for
•Quick tour of the pharmacy
How can a manager effectively manage Students
•Discuss students interests/goals
•Assess their skill and comfort level
•Let students participate in everything
•Provide specific and useful feedback
How can a manager effectively manage New Hires
•comprehensive training
•Clear work plan
•Check in with them frequently
•Allow everyone to get to know each other
Define 3 general reasons why an employee may be terminated
•Disciplinary: Not following policy, verbal and written warning should be given before termination
•Performance: Unable to meet the expectations of the job
•Financial: No fault of theirs
Cite attributes that make a workplace appealing to employees.
• Track record of profitability or organizational stability
•Recognized as a leader in quality and innovation
•Support work-life balance
•Maintaining a strong market position
•Demonstrated commitment to building a diverse workforce and inclusive organizational culture
•Opportunities for professional development/career advancement
employee engagement is linked to…
enhanced job performance
Name the 4 elements of employee engagement
Emotional commitment
Discretionary effort- willingness to go above and beyond
Rational commitment
Intent to stay
What is the employee value proposition.
What an employer offers employees in exchange for their effort and commitment
List five key components of the employee value proposition.
Affiliation: Feeling of belong to an admirable org that shares ones values
Work content
Career
Benefits
Compensation
List strategies to create a sense of affiliation.
Emphasize a Distinctive organizational mission
Communicate a compelling vision
Be explicit about organizational values
Create a culture of inclusion
Create a safe work environment
Focus on fairness
Create opportunities for employees to connect with others inside and outside the workplace
Describe strategies to improve work content.
Work Content: Satisfaction that comes from the work one does
1)Ensure a match between employees and their jobs
2)Link work efforts to organizational mission
3)Offer autonomy
4)Provide regular feedback
Provide resources and infrastructure required for success
Describe strategies to enhance the length of organizational employment.
1)Offer employment for the long term
2)Promote from within: hire an internal candidate
3)Create opportunities to grow and develop
Describe how an organization can improve benefits offered to employees.
1)Support employees work-life balance
2)Offer an array of benefit options to meet employees needs & life stages
3)Demonstrate a commitment to employee wellness
4)Communicate the value of benefit changes
Describe strategies to improve compensation for employees.
1)Develop and communicate a compensation philosophy
2)Use pay strategically
3)Pay attention to top performers
Pay attention to pay processes