Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Management
Decreasing pharmacy
expenses on a critical care unit
Project Overview
On the acuity adaptable cardiothoracic unit where I work
Cost Savings
Project Goals
Provide thorough, formal education to nursing
staff on pharmacy expenses for both patients
and the organization as a whole in order to
improve the medication management and
resource allocation on our cardiothoracic unit
and decrease expenses for patients and the
pharmacy department by November 16,
2015. The collection of data at the beginning
and ending of the project will demonstrate
marked improvement in the pharmacy
expenses on the unit by November 16, 2015.
Objectives
1. Review current literature on medication/pharmacy
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Process
project.
The Project Scope and Plan gave me a framework to follow.
Progress
Progress of the success of the project was measured with the
Completion
There was a lot of pride in completing the
Ethical/Professional
The biggest ethicalIssues
issue that this project addressed
was the ethical principle of justice.
Lessons Learned
Being a good leader requires patience,
varying viewpoints.
Collaborative Leadership as
defined by Ferris State
University (2011) states,
Assume a leadership role
within a health care or
community based care setting
to promote a culture of quality
and safety.
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