Pharmacy Practice Management

Pharmacy Practice Management: Forms, Checklists & Guidelines provides pharmacists with useful practice guidelines and handy forms and checklists to ensure compliance, increase efficiency and improve overall practice management. They're effective tools for managing your day-to-day operations, as well as for meeting the requirements of the Joint Commission and other accrediting bodies. You'll find Pharmacy Practice Management contains many management tools you can use "as is" or implement with only a few changes. Put essential management policies and procedures into place...Develop effective patient education materials...Document care for quality assessment and accreditation... It's easy, with the ready-to-use forms, checklists and guidelines in this valuable manual. Pharmacy Practice Management gives you access to hundreds of essential resources addressing a variety of specific challenges. Discover how your colleagues have solved problems and developed systems to: Implement effective pharmaceutical care policies and procedures Comply with managed care documentation requirements Make the most of automation and computerization capabilities Simplify personnel management and staff training Document specific clinical interventions Conduct pharmacoeconomic analyses and develop formularies Collect and evaluate outcomes data to develop clinical pathways Meet quality assessment and improvement goals Evaluate drug usage to improve security and reduce costs Monitor adverse drug reactions and minimize incidents Pharmacy Practice Management has been updated to include: A newly organized and updated chapter on "Quality Improvement and Assessment"' A new form on medication error reporting and follow-up Updated information on medication reconciliation ASHP Guidelines on handling of hazardous drugs