Pharmovation

Imagine a pharmacy career in which resources arrive without a constant fight, your value never has to be defended, and shortages and exhaustion are not the norm. Kimber Boothe, PharmD, MHA, wrote Pharmovation to show pharmacists and technicians how to act as intrapreneurs within their own organizations, building the case for the staff, tools, and roles they need. The book aims to advance pharmacy practice, expand the influence pharmacists have, and help them accomplish more with the resources they already have.

The book has nine chapters filled with examples, research, and downloadable resources. The chapters follow a deliberate order, though readers may skip around. The first half looks at how to innovate practice by examining opportunity, enterprise, strategy, services, and technology. The second half turns toward innovating oneself through leadership, personal development, and putting everything learned into action.

Each chapter targets a specific goal. Readers learn why mindset matters to their success and how to bring it into their Pharmovation journey, and why keeping the bigger picture in view matters, given the substantial need for pharmacists. The book shows how to benefit from the integrated reach of the pharmacy enterprise and how to justify resources for both small and large needs. It encourages pharmacists and technicians to take responsibility and innovate in their roles, and it explains how to justify new technology that serves both practitioners and patients. Further chapters cover building leadership and accountability at any level of an organization, taking ownership of one's career through a two-year development plan, and applying the book's tools through integrated learning.

The Pharmovation Implementation Guide is a supplement that includes downloadable tools and videos to help readers put the book's lessons into practice quickly. Previews of the downloads appear within the relevant chapters. The available tools are the Mindset Worksheet, Pharmacy Enterprise Evaluation Worksheet, Situational Analysis Worksheet, Strategic Plan Worksheet, Business Plan Worksheet, Service Planning Worksheet, Scorecard Worksheet, Services Business Plan Case Study, Technology Assessment Framework and Worksheet, Technology Business Plan Case Study, Competency Self-Assessment Worksheet, New Leader Assimilation Worksheet, Continuous Professional Development Plan Worksheet, and Career Planning Worksheet.