While the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education’s (ACPE’s) Standards and Guidelines are less explicit in this area, achievement of Standard 9.3 (developing leaders) depends in part on developing graduates who can apply their unique talents to leadership roles. Furthermore, awareness of strengths is critical to the development of effective teams, reflected in Outcome 3.4 (collaborator). 4 Knowledge and application of one’s personal strengths is well aligned with CAPE 2013 Outcomes 4.1 (self-aware) and 4.2 (leader). The need for academic pharmacy to assist student pharmacists in this type of self-awareness and application is reflected in the most recent Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) Educational Outcomes, which were expanded to include greater focus on the affective domain, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, innovation, leadership, and professionalism. The ability of pharmacists to align personal strengths with roles in pharmacy can potentially increase engagement, which may in turn produce a greater impact on health outcomes. One Gallup poll found the level of nurse engagement at work was the most important predictor of mortality variation across 200 hospitals. For example, one must extrapolate impact on general business measures such as “unit productivity” or “customer satisfaction” to metrics related to health care quality or patient satisfaction. 2 Applying work environment and employee engagement research to health care is challenging, as less data exists for this sector. 1 This highlights the relationship between the ability to apply one’s strengths regularly to one’s work and levels of employee engagement. These respondents were 38% more likely to work in more productive business units and 44% more likely to work in business units with higher customer satisfaction scores. 1 The implications of this statistic were examined in follow-up research that explored the environments in which this percentage of respondents worked. When Gallup asked 198 000 employees working in 7939 business units across 36 companies whether they perceived they were given the opportunity to do what they do best every day, less than 20% responded positively. Yet, actualizing this concept in the work place is remarkably illusive. A core finding from this work is that to be effective, people must be given the opportunity to “do what they do best every day.” At first glance, this statement may appear simplistic and based on common sense. Marcus Buckingham and Don Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengthsįor more than a decade, the Gallup Organization has conducted research with the highest performing individuals in their respective fields. You will need to become an expert at finding and describing and applying and practicing your strengths. To excel in your chosen field and to find lasting satisfaction in doing so, you will need to understand your unique patterns. Signature Themes were consistent among student pharmacists across 5 Midwestern colleges of pharmacy. Pharmacy students exhibit more Executing domain talents and fewer Influencing domain talents compared with undergraduates.Ĭonclusion. Female student pharmacists had more themes in Executing and Relationship Building, while males had more themes in Influencing and Strategic Thinking. Although results varied by institution, the top 5 themes among the 1244 of 1250 students (99.5%) who completed the assessment were: Achiever, Harmony, Learner, Responsibility, and Empathy. The distribution of the themes was compared between student pharmacists and undergraduates and themes and domains were compared by institution and gender. Themes were organized and examined by domains (Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, Strategic Thinking). Student pharmacists completed the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment and received their top 5 Signature Themes. To describe student pharmacists’ Signature Themes from the Clifton StrengthsFinder across 5 Midwestern pharmacy institutions and to compare themes by gender, institution, and undergraduate population.
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