Successful leaders are refined through contemporary education in the socio-administrative sciences.  As with any changing discipline, a new approach to teaching and learning must be employed - one that embraces the skills of all health care team members and values entrepreneurial thinking and problem solving. This approach requires a new set of skills based on contemporary management principles, including followership, team building, tracking and assessing progress, storytelling and communication, financial analysis and cultivating innovation, all of which promote transformational change. A book by faculty members for faculty members, the authors of this text are responsible for creating and delivering content in the social and administrative sciences courses in pharmacy curriculums.  To date, there is no single textbook that covers all the essentials needed for pharmacists. As a result, a compilation of between three and ten textbooks is needed. There is a need for a universal and comprehensive textbook covering the social and administrative sciences topics for the pharmacy curriculum. This is that book.

The content areas covered in this text include:

• US Health Care Systems
• Pharmacy Leadership
• Health Care Finance and Reimbursement
• Patient & Mediation Safety
• Pharmacy Practice Development & Management
• Pharmacy Business & Entrepreneurship

Written and reviewed by experts in practice and academia, this text serves as an authoritative source for students and health care providers.

KEY FEATURES:

• “Definitions” – call out boxes defining important concepts and terms used in the chapter.
• “Did You Know” – call out boxes for students to learn additional background on key concepts.
• "Contemporary Examples" describing what the concept looks like in practice or a hospital/pharmacy doing this well.