Specialized Pharmacist Roles and Perspectives in the Collaborative Management of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a multitude of unprecedented challenges to the healthcare system and broader public policy arena. Comprehensive guidelines and recommendations have been slow to develop as each community and medical institution face unique challenges due to a dissimilarity in demographics and resources. We seek to describe the experience at our institution to highlight challenges that others may encounter with an emphasis on the value that specialized pharmacists can provide at various levels of the healthcare system.

Burnout Among Health System Pharmacists: Presentation, Consequences, and Recommendations

Burnout remains an emerging challenge in healthcare. Burnout in these settings has been associated with compromised personal wellbeing, decreased work productivity, higher healthcare costs, decreased patient satisfaction, and deteriorating quality of patient care. As pharmacist roles on healthcare teams expand, health-system pharmacy leaders should be cognizant of burnout, including risk factors and identification. Coordinated efforts should foster pharmacist wellbeing and resilience, individualized work-related responsibilities to ensure professional ambitions are met, promotion of upper leadership expectation transparency, and cultivation of relationships within the pharmacy department.