hospital staffing future

[spacecowgirl]

Well, nothing you've said in this post contradicts mine.

If pharmacists were simply going to do order entry / processing, then CPOE would reduce staffing. That's why community hospitals need to grab onto more "pharmacy driven dosing" and "quality improvement" duties.

With CPOE and decentralized pharmacy, hopefully we can get into valuable duties like discharge counseling and whatnot. Of course, many of the old-school pharmacists won't like this.

There's a ton of stuff we can do. The pharmacy administration just needs to be good at defending our cost-effectiveness.

I did contradict your assertion that staffing would be cut. That has not proven true where I work. I didn't argue with anything else. 😕