Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings

A comprehensive pharmacy management textbook that combines evidence-based management theories with practical solutions for the issues pharmacists face every day

Covering everything from operations management and purchasing to Medicare Part D, this complete guide explains vital pharmacy management topics across all practice settings. Featuring material derived from the best and most contemporary primary literature, this comprehensive text focuses on teaching the skills essential to the everyday practice of pharmacy.

Pharmacy Management, 3e is enriched by input from faculty who teach pharmacy management, from pharmacy students, and from pharmacists who apply management principles in their daily practice. More than any other text, it reflects the challenges facing today’s pharmacist. The book is filled with advice from the field’s top experts who take you through the principles applicable to all aspects of pharmacy practice, from managing money to managing personal stress. Long after you’ve completed your last course, you’ll turn to Pharmacy Management for answers to make your practice more professionally rewarding and personally enriching.

FEATURES:

• Every chapter in the third edition has been updated to reflect the latest trends and developments
• Several new chapters designed to promote a more global understanding of pharmacy management have been added, including: Establishing the Value Proposition of Pharmacy Management, Applications in Managed and Specialty Environments, Management of Comprehensive Pharmacy Services in Safety Net Clinics, Pharmacy Management Applications in Varied Health Care Systems
• A scenario-based presentation combines practical solutions with evidence-based management theories and models, which are directly applied to cases and examples

Shane P. Desselle, PhD, RPh, FaPhA, Associate Dean for Tulsa Programs; Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy: Clinical & Administrative Sciences; College of Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa, OK.

David P. Zgarrick, PhD, RPh, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.