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Article I have been reading makes it seems as though the future role of pharmacist is really unknown and that pharmacist are going to be competing with nurses for jobs. I am both a pharmacist and a nurse. The pharmacy students coming through my workplace are saying that pharmacist "nitch" is medication reconciliation and to advocate for pharmacist to be paid for patient counseling. The place I work is probably 10 years behind the times and I was hoping to get insight on what roles the pharmacist does at the places where everyone works currently and what is "clinical" at the place where you work. Are all the pharmacists where you work required to be board certified to work in a hospital? Are staff pharmacist being replaced with automation and pharmacy technicians? As a nurse I was the one who did medication rec and patient discharge (This could also be done by a LPN instead of a RN and med history can even be done by a pharmacy tech as well) but it appears that I am not qualified to do med rec and patient discharge as a pharmacist unless I am board certified even though I could do this job as a nurse. I will see if I can attach some links to this for all to read and opinions. It also seems that in the USA we are going toward a value based team based care model more like other countries. Canada pharmacist can you give any opinions on this model with accountable care organizations and patient centered medical homes and how this affected the profession of pharmacy in your country with pharmacy techs taking on more roles. In other countries like England the pharmacy tech do medication passes instead of the nurses and well and antibiotic stewardship, coumadin dosing, therapeutic interchanges and other roles that was originally done by pharmacist. How has the pharmacist in primary care model taken off in other areas of the USA? Also in places where other pharmacist work are you seeing more LPN's being hired to use less RN's? California pharmacist are you prescribing based off a diagnosis from a provider for all diagnosis?
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Walgreens Doubles Down on Care Team Integration
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The future of post-pandemic pharmacy operations — 5 Qs with CPS' COO
PAI 2030 Focused Initiatives
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Pharmacies Can Win the Reimbursement Battle and Still Lose Their Livelihood
Breadth, intensity of vertical integration keeps growing, leaving pharmacies' future role uncertain.
Choosing Evolution over Extinction: Integrating Direct Patient Care Services and Value-Based Payment Models into the Community-Based Pharmacy Setting - PubMed
The American healthcare payment model introduced Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) into a position of power that currently puts into question the state of the pharmacy profession, especially in the community field. Reimbursement plans had been designed to benefit all stakeholders and save...
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NHS England » Pharmacy technicians are playing key new roles
PAI 2030 Focused Initiatives
Disruption Is Ongoing and Inevitable
But pharmacists can implement medication use systems and collaborate with other health care professionals.
Empowering Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration
As a pharmacist, embedding yourself in a primary care practice can have positive outcomes for both patients and your business.
