The Medical Field Needs Me the Technician!
The profession of pharmacy is at a crossroads between its conventional drug-dispensing identity and a pioneering clinical role with health care provider status. For the past several years, the concept of provider status has been tossed around at every pharmacy school, pharmacy association meeting, and pharmacy work site. Provider status is frequently discussed, but is it really vital to our profession’s survival? I would think so!
With the high demand for health care services by the increasing population and shortage of physicians, something will have to change. Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians could be that defining factor for many companies and patients; however, we need to make our services and value known. We have a vast array of knowledge that needs to be used. Pharmacist provider status is just one piece of the colossal health care delivery system change puzzle. Defining our role within each particular pharmacy practice setting over the next few years will determine how I will practice for …show more content…
No one is doing anything to us. The future is happening to pharmacy. People can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. People can hope for things to go back to the way they were, but they aren’t. Hope is not a strategy either. Our success as individuals and as an industry is predicated on our ability to deal with that change. That’s the true strategy.
Downside to our bright future is the switch to robotic medication dispensers. This is when the medical doctor can send the patient’s prescriptions to a computer and the computer automatically fill the prescription and the patient pays thru the machine. If this is to happen the robots will limit some duties of pharmacist and technicians. However with all the different skills and fields technicians can go into besides the delivery of medicine to patients. Our Future Looks Great and
The profession of pharmacy is at a crossroads between its conventional drug-dispensing identity and a pioneering clinical role with health care provider status. For the past several years, the concept of provider status has been tossed around at every pharmacy school, pharmacy association meeting, and pharmacy work site. Provider status is frequently discussed, but is it really vital to our profession’s survival? I would think so!
With the high demand for health care services by the increasing population and shortage of physicians, something will have to change. Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians could be that defining factor for many companies and patients; however, we need to make our services and value known. We have a vast array of knowledge that needs to be used. Pharmacist provider status is just one piece of the colossal health care delivery system change puzzle. Defining our role within each particular pharmacy practice setting over the next few years will determine how I will practice for …show more content…
No one is doing anything to us. The future is happening to pharmacy. People can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. People can hope for things to go back to the way they were, but they aren’t. Hope is not a strategy either. Our success as individuals and as an industry is predicated on our ability to deal with that change. That’s the true strategy.
Downside to our bright future is the switch to robotic medication dispensers. This is when the medical doctor can send the patient’s prescriptions to a computer and the computer automatically fill the prescription and the patient pays thru the machine. If this is to happen the robots will limit some duties of pharmacist and technicians. However with all the different skills and fields technicians can go into besides the delivery of medicine to patients. Our Future Looks Great and