The focus of this Director's Forum is on the justification and implementation of a decentralized pharmacy practice model. This article is the first of three articles that will address the challenges that the pharmacy director must face when expanding pharmacist clinical practice opportunities. Two future articles will review advanced practice programs and the evaluation of clinical 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.
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