Rx for

Leadership:
Co-prescribing
Facilitation
and Counseling

By Megan Leiss
Table of Contents
Prime Questions to Ask
❖ Resume & Most Valuable Lesson: Building a Relationship with your Patient
❖ Self Leadership: What did the doctor tell you this was for?
❖ Leadership Theories: How did the doctor tell you take this medication?
❖ Critical Thinking: What did the doctor tell you to expect from this medication?
❖ Interpersonal & Organizational Concepts & Skills: Teach-Back Method
❖ Inclusive Leadership, Diversity & Connection to Leadership: Documentation
Resume & Most Valuable Lesson
Building a Relationship with your Patient

Leadership Experience Professional Experience

❖ Student Intern, Vice President, & ❖ CVS Pharmacy Technician & Intern
Lead Facilitator for SOLC ❖ Pathways to Medicine
❖ FLITE Peer Educator ❖ Student Pharmacist @ Tiogue
❖ Challenge Course Facilitator and Elementary School
Manager for the North Woods
Challenge Course
❖ Leadership Institute Student
Coordinator
Self Leadership
What did the doctor tell you this was for?

Brand Name & Generic Name of the Medication

❖ My top 5 Gallup strengths are:
❖ Learner
❖ Achiever
❖ Strategic
❖ Individualization
❖ Relator
Indications & Use for the Medication
❖ North Woods Challenge Course Facilitator and Manager
❖ SOLC Facilitator
❖ Student Pharmacist → Future Pharmacist
Leadership Theories
How did the doctor tell you take this medication?

SIG or Directions for Use:

❖ Relational Leadership Model- Komives
❖ Knowing, Being, Doing
❖ Purposeful, Inclusive, Empowering, Ethical & Process-Oriented
❖ Inclusive and Relational Leader as a Facilitator

SIG: Build relationships between people and group members of an organization

to accomplish positive change by listening to their stories and believing that the
differences among them are valuable.
Critical Thinking
What did the doctor tell you to expect?

This is the opportunity for the pharmacist to discuss potential side effects that the
patient may experience from taking their medication.
❖ Decide what side effects are relevant to discuss with the patient and whether they
are more common, rare, or more severe.

Decision-Making Methods
❖ Listening to others- listen to the patient’s concerns and knowledge about side effects
❖ Doing your research- be knowledgeable about the medication beforehand
❖ Trusting your instincts- go with your gut in what the most notable S.E are
❖ Weighing your options- recognize what about the patient’s health is at stake
❖ Taking a chance- take a risk and don’t hold anything back from the patient
Interpersonal & Organizational Concepts & Skills
Teach-Back Method

Just to make sure I didn’t leave anything out, do you mind repeating to me the
information I just shared with you?
Active Listening
❖ Encouraging
❖ Restating Basic Ideas
❖ Reflecting Feelings
❖ Clarifying
❖ Summarizing
Inclusive Leadership & Diversity
Documentation of Changes
If it’s not documented, it never happened! Pharmacists have a responsibility to document all
counseling interactions with patients including clarification on changes in medication
regimens.

Change is a process.
❖ Open mind and flexible to connect with people of diverse backgrounds to understand their
attitudes, experiences, and perspectives.
❖ A change agent diversifies their knowledge by taking a risk outside their comfort zone.
❖ Change agents are advocates who educate people on the issues in order to influence them
and create a sense of urgency.

URI Service Corps ASB Dallas

❖ Northwest Community Center Dallas
❖ St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy
❖ Diseases and illnesses do not discriminate, and neither should health care.
Megan Leiss 04/01/2019
50 Lower College Rd, Kingston, RI 02881

Learner, Achiever, Strategic, Individualization, Relator 30 mg tablets

Dispense #90

SIG: Build relationships between people and group members of an

organization to accomplish positive change by listening to their stories and
believing that the differences among them are valuable.