The Role of Pharmaceutical Personnel in Health Care Teams – PST06101 Leadership and Management
NTA Level 6 • Semester 1 • PST06101 The Role of Pharmaceutical Personnel in Health Care Teams Leadership and Management • Source Session/Topic 12 Full source-text version: all educational wording from the extracted learning source is retained; only presenter/tutor metadata and web-layout noise are removed, while formatting is improved for readability. Session 12: The Role of Pharmaceutical Personnel in Health Care Teams Total Session Time: 120 minutes Prerequisites • None Learning Tasks By the end of this session students are expected to be able to: • Define the terms pharmaceutical personnel and health care teams • Describe roles of pharmaceutical personnel in health care services • Explain the relationship between pharmaceutical personnel and other health personnel in the service delivery Resources Needed: • Flip charts, marker pens, and masking tape • Black/white board and chalk/whiteboard markers • LCD projector and computer • Note books and Pens SESSION OVERVIEW Activity/ Step Time Content Method 1 05 minutes Presentation Introduction, Learning Tasks 05 minutes Presentation Definition of Pharmaceutical Personnel, 2 Buzzing Health Care, Health Care Teams 40 minutes Presentation 3 Small Group Roles of Pharmaceutical Staff Discussion 40 minutes Presentation Relationship between Pharmaceutical 4 Brainstorming Personnel and Other Health Personnel 5 20 minutes Presentation Roles of Pharmaceutical Leaders 6 05 minutes Presentation Key Points 7 05 minutes Presentation Evaluation PST 06101 Leadership and Management NTA L 6 Semester 2 Facilitator Guide 67 SESSION CONTENTS STEP 1: Presentation of Session Title and Learning Tasks (5 minutes) READ or ASK students to read the learning tasks and clarify ASK students if they have any questions before continuing. STEP 2: Definition of Pharmaceutical Personnel (5 minutes) Activity: Buzzing (5 minutes) Ask students to pair in two and buzz on the following: • What is a pharmaceutical personnel? ALLOW few students to respond WRITE their responses on the flip chart/board CLARIFY and SUMMARISE by using the content below • Pharmaceutical personnel are all staff working in pharmaceutical unit or area. • Health care is health services provided to health customers or consumers. • Health care teams are all heath care teams providing health services to health service clients. STEP 3: Roles of Pharmaceutical Staff in Pharmaceutical Management Team (30 minutes) Activity: Small Group Discussion ( 20 minutes) DIVIDE students into small manageable groups ASK students to discuss on the following question • What are roles of pharmaceutical staff in pharmaceutical management team? ALLOW students to discuss for 15 minutes ALLOW few groups to present and the rest to add points not mentioned CLARIFY and SUMMARIZE by using the contents below: PST 06101 Leadership and Management NTA L 6 Semester 2 Facilitator Guide 68 • Production of pharmaceutical products depending on the level of production • Validation by assessing and documenting all equipment and processes to ensure that an action will be taken. • Quality Assurance – monitor the processes and procedures to ensure set standards are met. • Quality Control – provide testing and checks throughout the service process to maintain standards. • Regulatory Affairs – deal with the applications and paperwork surrounding regulations so that products will be used as per the set regulations. • Operations – ensures the continuous functioning of the pharmaceutical unit as laid down work distribution. • Research & Development – This will depend on the level of the pharmaceutical unit as at lower level they may conduct operational research on medicines or product supplied to clients. But at higher level in labs they may identify molecules that could be used in medications, or on current medications to improve the products. • Other – includes areas of supply chain, Logistics, Marketing, HR, Warehouse, Finance, etc. STEP 4: The Relationship Between Pharmaceutical Personnel and Other Health Personnel (40 minutes) Activity: Brainstorming (5 minutes) Ask students to brainstorm on the following question: • What is the relationship between pharmaceutical personnel and other health personnel? ALLOW few students to respond? WRITE their responses on the flip chart/ board CLARIFY and SUMMARISE by using the content below • All serve same health clients • All are under one major set of health team • All depend on each other example a doctor will attend a client, demand medical tests from lab, radiology, etc. before concluding what type of medicine to be given to a patient. Later will recommend medicine to be finally given by a pharmaceutical staff. STEP 5: Roles of Pharmaceutical Leaders (20 minutes) • Leading the process of planning pharmaceutical services • Leading group members at pharmaceutical units • Linking pharmaceutical staff with other health units‘ staff PST 06101 Leadership and Management NTA L 6 Semester 2 Facilitator Guide 69 • Representing pharmaceutical interest in respective organization departmental meeting • Training and guiding their followers • Writing pharmaceutical reports STEP 6: Key Points (5 minutes) • Pharmaceutical personnel are all staff working at pharmaceutical unit. • Pharmaceutical staff or personnel depend on other health staff as their service complement each other • Pharmaceutical staff plays a significant role in health care system. STEP 7: Evaluation (5 minutes) • What is a pharmaceutical personnel? • What are the roles of pharmaceutical staff in the health care system? • What is the relationship between pharmaceutical staff and other health staff? 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