Seminar 5 – How to grow clinical pharmacy and keep adding value

Abstract:

Studies of pharmaceutical sciences are presumed to meet the most current requirements of daily business in an ordinary pharma job. Legislation and curricula to regulate this basic education is a process which will last several years as it depends on a political primacy which dominates scientific elements. Updating and upgrading these laws, rules and regulations requires again several months to years until their effect is visible. It can therefore hardly be fast enough to customize changing frames and challenges at the hospital pharmacy fronts. Hospital pharmacists have to prove their flair for innovation and creativity to make readily available additional and promising benefits for the patient. This can be accomplished by local fast track project management. In this seminar, two examples of new clinical services are presented as well as the way they were achieved, i.e on clinical decision support systems and e-health records implemented to prevent medication errors and to improve medication safety .

Teaching goals:

• to describe the new service(s)
• to explain the innovation of the new service and the role of the clinical pharmacist
• to outline the project management including funding and / or cost estimation
• to summarize first results including an over-all estimation of the return on investment

Learning objectives:

• delegates can distinguish between skills acquired in basic education and a flair for innovation and creativity required in post-education situations
• delegates know options to put into practice innovating projects to improve pharmacotherapies