...CVS Caremark Organizational Analysis James P Miller Strayer University BUS 310 Professor Frevert Abstract CVS Caremark established 1963, has been expanding every year since their inception. With over 7,000 retail locations they face many human resources challenges. It essential for CVS to understand what HR challenges they face to make informed decisions; beneficial to the company stakeholders and employees. Hr decisions affect not only the employee’s but the company’s social opt squat. These resolutions include recruitment of highly skilled workers, company policies, labor relations, training and diversity, management of multiple locations, global business environments, employee compensation and benefits, and legal compliance. In addition, CVS human resources have to align optisquat with the mission and values of the company. CVS Caremark Organizational Analysis CVS Caremark is a pharmacy health care provider in the U.S. They provide pharmacy services, which includes mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy services, plan design and administration, formulary management and claims processing; and Retail Pharmacy, which sells prescription drugs and a range of general merchandise, including over-the-counter drugs, beauty products and cosmetics, photo finishing, seasonal merchandise, greeting cards and convenience foods. As of Dec. 31, 2011, CVS has approximately 7,300 CVS/pharmacy retail stores. (CVS Care mark, 2011) CVS...
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...over a three year period to run an inter professional collaborative working programme, whereby both student nurses and doctors will come together on a regular basis in a teaching environment to work alongside each other to gain the following skills: • Patient safety in relation to drug administration • Patient safety in relation to drug prescribing • A clearer understanding of each others role • Practical experience in drug administration and drug prescribing in a non –threatening environment • Insight into pharmacology and pharmokinetics and it’s importance in prescribing and administration of drugs. This three-year study we propose to write up and evaluate and hope to publish with the intention to produce learning materials and educational packs to be marketed at later date Rationale for Change Project Medications Errors within any health care setting can have severe consequences not only for the patient but financially for the organisation if litigation comes about. Medication errors can be defined as “any incorrect or wrongful administration of a medication, such as a mistake in dosage or route of administration, failure to prescribe or administer the correct drug or formulation for a particular disease or condition, use of outdated drugs, failure to observe the correct time for administration of the drug, or lack of awareness of adverse effects of certain drug combinations.” Mosby Medical Dictionary (2009). Causes of medication error...
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...University Prescriber writing errors happen in all forms, places and types. From what the medical staff thinks, the prescriber has prescribed and calls in to the local retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, or even the in house pharmacies: adding that the pharmacy processing these uncorrected prescriptions that end up getting to patients. If someone does not catch these errors whether it is the pharmacist, being asked by the patient, why there receiving this drug, because they thought doctor said something else. Therefore, the pharmacist may check it. In a hospital, setting a nurse may look at a chart and question the drug, and call and verify. However, many times no one questions it until the patient has a reaction, or what he or she are being treated for gets worse. Along with communicating with the prescribers, their offices, hospitals, patients, pharmacists also have to be up to date on the all laws, federal and state, and be watchful for those that try to fill fraudulent or altered scripts. Research suggests that there would be significant benefits if all prescribers would follow the same procedures for writing prescriptions, such as using computer generate prescriptions or E-scribe, because there would be a decrease in prescription writing errors, pharmacy mistakes and prescription fraud. Pharmacies call prescribers offices to clarify prescriptions information, on average 150 million times yearly. That’s what makes E-prescribing a valuable tool, it would monitor for...
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...campus this year. This student organization is called a HPAC. A HPAC is a Health Professionals Affinity Community. The Health Professions Affinity Community (HPAC) is a newly designed pipeline program to engage students and advance their academic and career progress toward health professions. The program relies on existing community assets and bundling them in a manner that further supports student success. Students from varied circumstances can benefit from opportunities to apply academic learning in real-world circumstances and from learning how to employ existing and at times hidden personal and community resources to improve their community. The goals, strategies, and methods reflected in the HPAC program are consistent with finding ways to better meet the vast needs of the region, of finding and supporting qualified “Ohio” grown students from diverse backgrounds desiring to enter health professions. The key principle of the program is that students increase their academic scholarship, understand the value of research, further engage in the community, and become well prepared young adults who are able to achieve a level of preparation compatible with their health career aspirations. The mission of HPAC is advancing the health and success of students and their communities through mutual learning and engagement enriched by health professions education, workforce, and community partnerships. As a new student organization, the AmeriCorps needs help doing the marketing research...
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...more interested in the management on the curriculum. It states that for a curricular to be effective then management must be handled well. The fourth section, this being the last part of the book it talks about the curricular trends in our current days. Thesis; the book Curriculum Leadership: Strategies for Development and Implementation Issues study that can help in our day to day leadership skills and requirements to educate and govern the public to a better-living standard. Report In the topic ‘The Nature of Curriculum’ which provides the general oversight of concepts for analyzes, we learn that the key to leadership is by making sure the leadership policies should line up with the set curricular goals to assist in student learning (Glatthorn, Boschee & Whitehead, 2015). In the concept of curriculum or prescriptive, it provides us with the intended happenings and expert opinions required in a particular study course. Some of the accepted definitions were offered by the past and current leaders in the particular field (Glatthorn, Boschee & Whitehead, 2015). The example types of curricula represented in the book namely; planned curriculum and actualized curriculum are highly...
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...Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Request for Project (RFP) – Web Services CMGT/554 IT Infrastructure May 27, 2013 Matt Mancani In an age of technological advances, more people access the Internet to conduct research, perform banking and other financial transactions, participate in education, search for real-estate, and purchase consumer goods, among other things. Today, people can perform actions from playing online games to searching for love on the Internet. It is customary for people to have more “friends” online today than they have on-ground. Social networking has taken the Internet to new highs and generations are accustomed to living full lives through the World Wide Web. Therefore, it goes without reason that people would expect to access vital services such as healthcare online as well. Learning Team C has been requested by the executive staff at Patton-Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) to determine the feasibility of PFCH becoming a state-of-the art healthcare provider with an online presence. This paper will determine what PFCH needs to do to achieve this status by providing interactive web services to its vendors, suppliers, clinicians and patients. This analysis will answer the questions of what modifications/implementations must be achieved to provide up-to-date, accurate information to staff, medical personnel and patients; what interactivity would allow patients the ability to being able to access pertinent...
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...PART A SWOT Analysis As Director of Information Management, I have been task to implement a new clinical information system for the pharmacy at this hospital. The hospital wants a pharmacy that will enable the physicians to have the capability of doing an automatic order through Computerized Physicians Order Entry (CPOE) in hope of reducing order delays, improving the legibility of orders, streamline operations, and ultimately improve patient safety by reducing medical errors. STRENGTH • Strong leadership and executive support • Focus on improved clinical practiced • Physician support • Leading technological hospital in the metropolitan area • Current hospital focus on patient safety • Wide-ranging: various professional groups will be impacted • Highly knowledgeable information system staff • Currently a pleasant and comfortable work environment for staff WEAKNESSES • Rising cost of resources • Limited budget constraints due to previous commitments • Lack of time for user training • New technology and staff attitude towards changes • Physician and clinical staff level of comfort with technology • Some hospitals already have CPOE OPPORTUNITIES • Desire to significantly reduce medication errors • Interest in standardizing medication ordering processes • Concerns of adequate training and assistance available for all involved clinical staff • Need for improved workflow processes in pharmacy services • Must have a positive impact on hospital efficiency ...
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...ork2012 - 2013 Catalog A Message from the President “Sullivan University is truly a unique and student success focused institution.” I have shared that statement with numerous groups and it simply summarizes my basic philosophy of what Sullivan is all about. When I say that Sullivan is “student success focused,” I feel as President that I owe a definition of this statement to all who are considering Sullivan University. First, Sullivan is unique among institutions of higher education with its innovative, career-first curriculum. You can earn a career diploma or certificate in a year or less and then accept employment while still being able to complete your associate, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree by attending during the day, evenings, weekends, or online. Business and industry do not expand or hire new employees only in May or June each year. Yet most institutions of higher education operate on a nine-month school year with almost everyone graduating in May. We remained focused on your success and education, and continue to offer our students the opportunity to begin classes or to graduate four times a year with our flexible, year-round full-time schedule of classes. If you really want to attend a school where your needs (your real needs) come first, consider Sullivan University. I believe we can help you exceed your expectations. Since words cannot fully describe the atmosphere at Sullivan University, please accept my personal invitation to visit and experience...
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...Internship Report On Marketing Services of The Private Universities in Bangladesh -A Case Study On Southern University Bangladesh [pic] BBA Program FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH |Submitted By |Under the Guidance of | | | | |Muhammad Mahmud Hossain Mamun |Prof. A. J. M. Nuruddin Chowdhury, | |ID Number: 111-24-18 |Former Vice- Chancellor, | |BBA Program |University of Chittagong | |Faculty of Business Administration |& | |Southern University Bangladesh. |Southern University Bangladesh. | Table of Contents |Particulars |Page No. | ...
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...and Mark Steven in Lowell, Massachusetts, Consumer Value Store (CVS), has quickly grown to be the second largest pharmacy and convenience store with over 7,600 pharmacies and drugstores nationwide. Since the beginning, CVS has always strived to be the largest retail pharmacy-which led to the development of their growth strategy. Furthermore, CVS continually strives to “reinvent” the pharmacy and make healthy living a fundamental part of their customers’ lives. (Biesada, 2014) Initially, these strategies were influenced by the company’s mission statement and purpose. According to the CVS website, the company’s mission is to “provide expert care and innovative solutions in pharmacy and health care that are effective and easy for our customers” (CVS caremark corporation: History, 2014). Clearly, CVS is in business to provide expert care, although it would appear that not all of their individual pharmacists share the same feelings. Based on research conducted, it would appear that there is a general lack of customer service training as some pharmacists have allegedly been behaving rudely towards customers. Throughout the course of this initiative, we will be discussing the gaps that have been found and we will develop a training program that we hope will help alleviate these problems and allow CVS to fully realize their mission. Part II: Needs Assessment Pharmacy Prescription Practices As a result of organizational research, we have determined that there is a distinct gap...
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...SCHOOL OF PHARMACY REPORT WRITING UCS 1263 Assignment 1 Hospital Attachment Report Name : Thiban Ellumalay ID : 012011051056 Programme : BPH Lecturer Name : Dr. Jiyauddin Khan Submission Date : 30th September 2013 An attachment report based on the lesson learned, activity being carried out, experience gained, problem faced and suggestion at Hospital Tuanku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang in various pharmacy departments for period of 3 weeks Submitted to Dr. Jiyauddin Khan, PhD Report writing lecturer, School of Pharmacy Management & Science University Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Prepared by, Thiban Ellumalay, 012011051056 3rd year Bachelor of Pharmacy, Management & Science University Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. 30th September 2013 Acknowledgement First and foremost I would like to thank the almighty lord for giving me wisdom to get my attachment done with successfully as well as with the preparation of the report. Without his blessings I wouldn’t have achieved this stage. Besides that, throughout my attachment accomplishment, many people have inspired me, influenced me and contributed their time, energy, ideas, and suggestions for improving my report. I will always be in debt to these people, too numerous to mention. I would...
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...Study The Coca-Cola Company Terry D. Copeland Capella University MBA 6012 June 28, 2013 Company Selection and Overview The Coca-Cola Company (Coca-Cola) was first established in 1886 by Dr. John Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Initially distributed at Jacobs’ Pharmacy for five cents a glass, the fledgling company sold just nine glasses of Coca-Cola a day for the first year (Coca-Cola, 2013). By 1891, Atlanta businessman Asa Candler, a prolific salesman, acquired the rights to the business for $2300; and as the company’s first president, his vision to transform Coca-Cola from an invention into a national brand was set in motion. He immediately recognized the potential of the new company and began to implement the marketing strategy that propelled Coca-Cola to its current standing as the world’s leading manufacturer in the beverage industry producing over 500 brands in over 200 countries with an estimated 1.8 billion servings consumed per day all over the world (Coca-Cola, 2013). Candler initially gave away coupons for complimentary first tastes, and outfitted distributing pharmacies with clocks, urns, calendars, and apothecary scales bearing the same red and white Coca-Cola script brand that remains as the world’s number one brand to this day (Coca-Cola, 2013). People saw the Coca-Cola brand everywhere, and by 1895, Candler had built syrup plants in Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. In 1899, music hall performer...
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...residents use social networking sites in asynchronous distance learning? Hubert Maisonneuve1*†, Juliette Chambe2, Mathieu Lorenzo2 and Thierry Pelaccia3*† Abstract Background: Blended learning environments - involving both face-to-face and remote interactions - make it easier to adapt learning programs to constraints such as residents’ location and low teacher-student ratio. Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook®, while not originally intended to be used as learning environments, may be adapted for the distance-learning part of training programs. The purpose of our study was to explore the use of SNS for asynchronous distance learning in a blended learning environment as well as its influence on learners’ face-to-face interactions. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study and carried out semi-structured interviews. We performed purposeful sampling for maximal variation to include eight general practice residents in 2nd and 3rd year training. A thematic analysis was performed. Results: The social integration of SNS facilitates the engagement of users in their learning tasks. This may also stimulate students’ interactions and group cohesion when members meet up in person. Conclusions: Most of the general practice residents who work in the blended learning environment we studied had a positive appraisal on their use of SNS. In particular, we report a positive impact on their engagement in learning and their participation in discussions during face-to-face instruction...
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...Benefits In our effort to attract, retain and motivate competent employees while providing for recognition of, and reward for, individual ability and performance, CRST International, Inc. has developed and implemented a competitive compensation and benefits package. A summary of compensation structure, company-paid benefits and elective benefits are listed below. Compensation Structure All positions have a designated pay range based on its job grade. All job grades have a wage range that denotes wage minimum, midpoint/market value, and maximum monetary value. Wage ranges are also reviewed from a competitive standpoint by conducting a market analysis of benchmark positions. Non-exempt (hourly) employees are paid weekly while exempt (salaried) employees are paid semi-monthly. Both groups of employees are paid via direct deposit. It is the policy of CRST International, Inc. to grant annual merit increases on the basis of the evaluation of individual performance. Other salary adjustments may be recommended and approved for the purposes of equity, changes in job classification, promotions, etc. Company Paid Benefits Vacation Eligibility is dependent on employee status and period of service to the company. Vacation is earned by completing an anniversary year. For the first through seventh years you are entitled to 10 days, eighth through your thirteenth year you will have 15 days, and on your fourteenth year or more you will receive 20 days of vacation. Personal Time Hourly...
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...different causes, symptoms and treatments. Although cancer can develop at any time, it is most common in older people. As the population ages and lifespan increases the incidence of cancer will also rise. As a result the development of successful therapies in cancer prevention or cure is a major priority in developed countries. Studying Biochemistry as an undergraduate at The University of Nottingham introduced me to the fundamental aspects of cell biology, genetics and cellular control, as well as essential chemistry covering molecular structure and bonding and reactivity. Over the course of the three years I was able to learn about the significance of regulatory processes in metabolic pathways, and covered macromolecular structural analysis and function, as well as gene structure and function in greater depth. In our final year we were introduced to pathology of diseases, and the use of biochemistry in research, diagnosis and treatment. Although the topic of cancer had been briefly exemplified in previous years, the Advanced Biochemistry and Advanced Biochemistry of Cancer modules provided me with more in depth knowledge on key topics. Advanced Biochemistry of cancer focused on the nature and function of oncogenes and...
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