Strategies for Overcoming Barriers in Translational Research

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Barriers to change............................................................................................................................3
Promoting for a change....................................................................................................................4
Unfreeze.......................................................................................................................................5
Change.........................................................................................................................................5
Refreezing....................................................................................................................................6
Implemented strategies....................................................................................................................6
Policy initiative............................................................................................................................6
Training and development...........................................................................................................7
Installing a better communication...............................................................................................7
Monitoring and evaluation...........................................................................................................7
Recommendations and future directions.....................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Prescribing is considered to be one of the major aspect for the pharmacist in countries
like Australia. There are several importance of the pharmacists in Australia that create a unique
position for the pharmacists inside the country. In the developed countries like USA and UK the
pharmacists are highly trained and always willing to improve their medication and enhances
appropriate use of medications and healthcare resources by putting great emphasis on the patient
safety. From the research of Burrows, Dall’Alba and La Caze (2016) 90% of the resident
medical staffs support pharmacist led recommendations. One of the major reason is the cost
effectiveness practice of the organisations. However, there are some barriers that the pharmacists
can face in terms of the exhaustive training and accreditation and the clash of interests between
the doctors and the pharmacists because the doctors feel threatened by the activities of the
pharmacists. In this regard, it is important for the Pharmacists to set effective strategies and
proceed towards the future directions for making effective means of delivering a good and
healthy practice for the pharmacists (Noble and Billett 2017). In my opinion, it is essential to put
a great thrust on the performances of the pharmacists and make them competent enough to
facilitate better practices with rapt attention on the patients’ safety. Moreover, eradicating the
clash of interests with the doctors and nurses is also a big concern for the pharmacists to mitigate
effectively. Based on this understanding, it can be stated that this reflective essay is going to
discuss the strategies for the pharmacists to overcome the barriers effectively with proper
strategies and implementation plan.

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Barriers to change
According to Benetoliet al. (2017) pharmacists are the professionally qualified people to
prepare and dispense medicinal drugs. However, in course of time the development in the
activities of the pharmacists has been changed rapidly and integrates more clinical and patient
centred approach to care. As a result of that Matifatet al. (2018) pointed out that the role of a
pharmacist had become a profession and the working sector was also developed at a rapid pace.
Therefore, it is important for the pharmacists to identify specific abilities and objectives that are
associated with their objectives. Most of the skills are aligned with profound knowledge of
medicines and ensuring the patient safety. It requires proper education and training of
undergraduate or post graduate to make the profession more education and knowledge based.
Henceforth, it is evident that rigours training and effectiveness in the part of the pharmacists is
considered to be one of the major aspect on which the students have to focus on. From the
research of Katoueet al. (2017) it can be stated that there are key areas of services that the
pharmacists offer in terms of the community based services, consultant pharmacists and the
multidisciplinary community providers. In this regard, it can be stated that the role of the
pharmacists has an important role to play in order to cope with the growing demand. However,
the intensity and exhaustive training for the pharmacists make them reluctant to pursue further
education.
Apart from that a clash of interests between the doctors and the pharmacists is also a
serious threat to the pharmaceutical practices. Based on the research of Blondalet al. (2017) it
can be stated that the role of the doctors is to threat and suggest the patients’ medicines that he or
she requires. However, the presence of the pharmacists leads to a problem for the doctors
because the pharmacists are starting advising the patients to take the concerned medicine. As a