Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Dec 2009
Pharmacist's identity development within multidisciplinary primary health care teams in Ontario; qualitative results from the IMPACT project.
Multidisciplinary team development generates changes in roles, responsibilities, and identities of individual health care providers. The Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics (IMPACT) project introduced pharmacists into family practice teams across Ontario, Canada, to provide medication assessments, drug information, and academic detailing and to develop office system enhancements to improve drug therapy. ⋯ Pharmacists found that the integration into team-based primary health care provided both challenges and fresh opportunities. Pharmacists' professional identities evolved in relation to valued role models, emerging practice-level opportunities, and their patient-related contributions.
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Dec 2009
Taking the lead: community pharmacists' perception of their role potential within the primary care team.
Patient-focused care provided by an interprofessional team has long been presented as the preferred method of primary care delivery. Community pharmacists should and can provide leadership for many clinical and managerial activities within the primary care team. ⋯ The findings of the study suggest substantial variability among pharmacists in their perception of the need for pharmacy leadership across 16 clinical and managerial activities.