Positions within health care organizations require clinical and organizational skills. Understanding the organization's political climate is key to the clinical coordinator's success. Approaching the corporate culture is similar to managing patient care: it requires diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of the situation. Diagnostic issues include the status of the pharmacy services and analyses of the organization's performance in external and internal assessments. Treatment issues include management style, communication skills, and interaction with key players in the organization. Evaluation issues include the ability to objectively assess the worth of clinical programs.
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