Hospital pharmacies managing clinical practice

Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Manager, Clinical Practice Operations, Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Chapter 102... 

Andrew M. Peterson is associate professor of pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he teaches management and managed care pharmacy practice. Before Dr. Peterson joined the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 1996, he was assistant director of pharmacy and clinical services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Prior to that, he was associate director of pharmacy, drug information, and clinical services at Crozer-Chester Medical Center. He currently is a senior consultant for Besler, Inc., in New Jersey. He is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS) through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 

The object was to identify and describe the scope of practice that characterizes the critical care pharmacist and critical care pharmacy services. Specillcally the goals were to define the level of clinical practice and specialized skills characterizing the critical care pharmacist as clinician, educator, researcher, and manager and to recommend fundamental, desirable, and optimal pharmacy services and personnel requirements for the provision of pharmaceutical care to critically ill patients. Hospitals having comprehensive resources as well as those with more limited resources were considered. 

Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Manager, Children s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Chapter 7... 

Logistics and clinical pharmacy are day to day practice in community and in hospital pharmacies. Logistics in industiy is a discipline that has been emphasised, due to current GDP Guidelines [2] and Quality Management. 

Managed care has penetrated most geographic areas within the United States and essentially all health care settings. As a result, career opportunities for clinical pharmacists are vast and diverse. While previously pharmacists interested in managed care positions were limited to settings such as pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies or insurance companies, career opportunities in managed care have expanded and are available in hospitals, clinics, and private practices in both urban and rural areas. 

Another framework for QRM for clinical pharmacy can be taken from the ISO 9001 for healthcare EN15224, especially from the practical implementation guide Sect. B.4.2. Risk management [6], In this way QRM of clinical pharmacy can be integrated into the existing QRM of the pharmacy and the hospital. 

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