A Focus on Leadership: CSHP's 2007 National Leadership Survey

摘要

Today's hospital pharmacists face a choice among numerous career paths, of which pharmacy management is only one. Effective leadership of an institution's pharmacy department has been identified as crucial to staff development and the maintenance of high patient-care standards. However, there are many barriers to attracting interested and qualified candidates to this realm of management.As with many professional curricula, undergraduate pharmacy programs focus on the development of clinical competency, with only minimal exposure to management-specific tasks. Although hospital pharmacy residency programs include an administration rotation, these tend to be shorter than the clinical rotations, which further downplays management as a potential career option. Once clinicians enter the field of hospital pharmacy, they are faced with a health care environment that has undergone a flattening of organizational structure and elimination of many entry-level management positions.