Building Trust and Privacy in a Pharmacy with Medical Room Dividers
Market: Healthcare
As a pharmacist, you are responsible for preparing, dispensing, and monitoring prescriptions the doctor writes for the patient. Further, you can show your expertise by suggesting an over-the-counter (OTC) cough med for a parent’s sick kiddo or giving someone their annual flu shot. However, the open-floor plan typical of many pharmacies can create challenges for both patients and staff. The remedy for this inconvenience? Room dividers.
Pharmacists: Your Local Health Guardians
Working in a variety of settings, including drug stores, general merchandise stores, grocery stores, hospitals, primary care offices, specialty clinics, and other health care facilities, pharmacists are a health care provider and medication expert. They play a vital role in promoting health and wellness, with an expansive list of duties:
Verify prescriptions
Explain any potential side effects of the medication and answer potential sensitive questions
Instruct on how and when to take prescribed medicine
Conduct health and wellness screenings, as well as vaccines
Provide advice and education on leading a healthy lifestyle, like exercise, diet, and managing stress
Work with insurance company and discuss medication cost concerns with patient
Advise what supplies might be best to treat a minor health issue
Keep records
And more
Deliver Operationally Efficient Pharmacies with Healthflex Privacy Screens
With a task list that long, it’s no secret that pharmacies are bustling, busy environments. Adding that pharmacies are also facing shortages, it’s as important as ever to make sure clear communication, education, and health care services are being thoroughly and carefully provided.
Healthflex Privacy Screens can transform staff-patient interactions within pharmacies. Screenflex medical dividers provide the right combination of privacy and acoustics needed for optimal health, healing, and safety. Our medical screens, made with an acoustical core, are encased with a fabric covering with an antimicrobial coating option to help control the spread of germs and diseases. By blocking up to 55% of noises from one side to the other, these dividers allow you to block both sight and sound to create a more comfortable experience for those picking up their prescriptions. The tackable fabric can easily display important health notices, pharmacy services, CDC guidelines, and more. Or you can choose vinyl covering for your divider as an easy-to-clean safety solution.
A More Focused Patient Experience
The open floor plans common in pharmacies can be overwhelming for patients, especially those with sensitive health concerns. Room dividers create private spaces for consultations, allowing patients to openly discuss their medications and health questions in private, leading to a more comprehensive understanding of their needs.
Room dividers can reduce distractions and foster active listening. Pharmacists can dedicate their full attention to each patient, explaining medication regimens clearly and addressing any anxieties. Studies have shown that private consultations with pharmacists lead to better medication comprehension and adherence, ultimately improving health outcomes.
Beyond Consultations: Optimizing Pharmacy Workflow
While consultation areas are a key benefit, room dividers offer additional advantages for optimizing pharmacy workflow.
Designated Waiting Areas: Dividers can be used to create designated waiting areas, reducing congestion and offering patients a more comfortable space while their prescriptions are prepared.
Improved Staff Communication: Dividers can create dedicated team areas for pharmacists and technicians to discuss patient cases or address inventory management, improving internal communication and workflow.
Inventory Management: Dividers can be strategically placed to conceal storage areas or back-office operations, maintaining a clean and professional aesthetic for patients.
Enhance Consultations for All with Screenflex
Patients shouldn’t have to lean over the counter and whisper to the pharmacist or have vaccines given to them out in the open. Where pharmacists consult and care for patients matter — room dividers can be that easy-to-assemble solution that will build on patient-staff trust, care, privacy, and outcome.
Pharmacists are there for the patients beyond medication refills. Let us be there to help design your pharmacy — reach out to one of our sales experts now to remedy your pharmacy space.
