New Practitioner Experience (NPX)
What is NPX?
NPX is an automatic and free, Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) member benefit that provides leadership, advocacy, networking and practice development opportunities to pharmacists in their first 7 years of practice. Not a member? Not a problem. Join OPA today by clicking the button below.
Vision
To be the launch pad for all new practitioners to achieve personal and professional growth and success.
Mission
The mission of the OPA New Practitioner Experience (NPX) is to serve as a catalyst for the transition from student to pharmacist by providing new practitioners the opportunity to achieve personal and professional growth and success. This will be accomplished through leadership, advocacy, networking and practice development opportunities.
NPX Advisory Committee 2019-2020 - Now Accepting Applications for 2020-2021!
NPX is currently looking for interested individuals to take active leadership roles on the NPX Advisory Committee. There are three position openings: Vice-Chair, Member-at-Large, and Launchpad Editor-in-Chief.
Vice-Chair is a two-year commitment that transitions to the role of Chair in year two. This individual will work closely with the Chair to guide the overall direction of the group.
Member-at-Large is a two-year term and this individual is responsible, along with the two other Members-at-Large, for representing the voice of the new practitioner members of the Ohio Pharmacists Association.
Coordinator of Launchpad, NPX’s quarterly newsletter, is also a two-year commitment. Responsibilities include obtaining and coordinating article submissions, completing final edits before web publishing, and ensuring that important news is relayed to the new practitioner membership.
ChairDana Wilkerson, PharmD, MS | Vice ChairKristine Mason, PharmD, MS | Member-at-LargeMarilee Clemons, PharmD |
Member-at-LargeEmily Eddy, PharmD
| Member-at-LargeLindsay Tsai, PharmD | Launchpad CoordinatorLauren Castle, PharmD |
NPX Event Recap: Welcome to NP Life
Marilee Clemons, R.Ph., PharmD
The New Practitioner Experience (NPX) held Welcome to NP Life at OPA on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at the OPA office. The event consisted of two hours of personal finance programming and two hours of ACPE-accredited CPE on conflict management and expanding your network.
Tim Ulbrich, PharmD provided two sessions on personal finance. His first session walked new practitioners through various loan payoff strategies to help them determine whether or not they have the best payoff strategy in place. His second session focused on investments where he explained and simplified long-term investment strategies, so that new practitioners could easily apply them to their personal life.
Lauren Castle, PharmD, Launchpad Coordinator for NPX, described five different styles used in conflict management, and provided an active learning exercise to demonstrate how they could be utilized in different scenarios. This session was especially helpful as many pharmacists are placed in management or leadership positions, but little time is devoted in college curricula or job training to learn conflict management techniques.
The final session was provided by Jaclyn Boyle, PharmD, M.S., MBA on expanding pharmacist networks, specifically through optimization of LinkedIn. During this session, Dr. Boyle provided information about different aspects of LinkedIn to enhance current profiles to make a valuable online first impression and grow professional networks.
This was an excellent event to promote the personal and professional growth of new practitioners. It was followed by a social at Pins Mechanical Co. in Dublin. We thank Kroger for their support of NP Life at OPA.
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NPX Launchpad Newsletter
Help us write the next newsletter! Articles may be submitted for Practitioner Profile, Ohio Days or A Taste of Our Kitchen. Have an idea for another article relevant to new practitioners? You can submit that as well! Articles should be submitted in a Word document to Lauren Castle at l-anderson.1@onu.edu. Photographs for articles should be submitted separately for higher quality. Thank you!
