Core Competencies in Hospital Pharmacy Practice: Department Financial Management

This series of articles in the Director's Forum continue to review key core competencies necessary for a pharmacy department to define their value in patient care. Competencies of medication order review, medication order dispensing, preparing intravenous admixtures, and data management provide a foundation in patient centered services. The goal of the Director's Forum throughout 2006 is to provide readers with information on all of the necessary core competencies of hospital pharmacy practice, comprising a “toolkit” in establishing a patient-centered pharmacy department.