Managed care skills

Review current partnerships with organizations (e.g.. Emergency Management, Private Elealth Care, Skilled Nursing/Long-Term Care, Eluman Services, Schools, Business and Industry, Media, Voluntary Organizations, Hospitals, Home Health). 

Residency programs last one to two years. The typical training site is a practice setting such as an academic health center, a community pharmacy, a managed care organization, a skilled nursing facility, or a home health care agency. 

Table 2 Desirable skills, knowledge, and behaviors of clinical pharmacists in managed care...

There are certain skills that clinical and dispensing positions have in the managed care setting. These include drag information knowledge, communication and mediation skills, assertiveness, and the ability to work in teams. 

Other essential skills for pharmacists in managed care include the following. 

Managed care systems offer innovative pharmacy practice positions in such areas as pharmacoeconomics, disease state management, outcomes research, wellness program management, and technology assessment. For individuals willing to expand their pharmacy practice and develop new skills, these positions can offer unique opportunities and growth. 

On the professional development front, the NCPA-created NIPCO continued to lead the way in developing programs that help establish pharmacist care services in community pharmacies. To date, more than 12,000 community pharmacists have completed NIPCO-accredited disease management programs in pharmacist care skills, cardiovascular care, respiratory care, diabetes care, immunization skills, osteoporosis, and mental health. 

Managed care would require a knowledge base and skill set different from contemporary pharmacy practice, more aligned with clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care. 

This vision of the treatment system in a new NDCS involves multiservice treatment facUities that can provide for the diverse needs of the public-sector treatment population. This means that a variety of levels of service would be available (long- and short-term residential, outpatient, and intensive outpatient), a multidisciplinary professional staff (e.g., addiction counselors, medical personnel, mental health professionals) would be provided, and a seamless method to provide ancillary services such as vocational training, financial management, and self-care skills would be in place. Services such as child care would be provided to remove barriers to treatment. There must be provisions for regular follow-up contact with treatment professionals and/or attendance at some kind of support group. AU of this requires an infusion of resources to upgrade the public-sector treatment system. 

Develop profiles of jobs considered suitable for early-return participants. A profile should define the job in terms of overall physical demands, motions required, environmental conditions, the number of times the job is performed per week, and its duration. Conduct a systematic analysis of specific jobs for the purpose of modifying them to accommodate the unique needs of the injured worker. Individuals who are skilled in ergonomic task analysis, engineering, safety, and biomechanics should help perform the job analysis. Managed-care providers can also assist in job modifications. Communicate the availability of early-return jobs with care providers, claims adjusters, and the injured worker. Work with your managed-care provider and worker to move them to full production status in their assigned jobs as quickly as possible. 

Nursing management of a patient with diabetes requires diligent, skillful, and comprehensive nursing care... 

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