OVERVIEW
Welcome to the next step in becoming a Clinical Nurse Educator in the pharmaceutical industry. Coaching and mentoring are key to moving beyond theory and into practice. By leveraging your transferable nursing skills, you can transition to a role as a Clinical Nurse Educator in the pharmaceutical industry. This course will provide insights into the Pharmaceutical Industry for those aspiring to be Clinical Nurse Educators.
Each session is 1 hour.
If you want more time with your Coach beyond 8 sessions, you can purchase 4 additional sessions/hours through the Course Library.
To help you with the “business” side of things you can also find business mini courses, presented by small business owners, many of whom, supported the owner of Stepping Stone Advocacy Services, as she created her business. These include website development, registering a business, setting up and learning the ins and outs of google business profiles, marketing your business and much more.
Curriculum
Coaching Session Topics
Week 1: Introductions and identifying your unique strengths
Week 2: Overview of the Pharmaceutical industry, structure, function, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies.
Week 3: Culture shock? Transitioning from traditional nursing to the role of the Clinical Nurse Educator in Pharma.
Week 4: Business Basics and Territory Management
Week 5: Relationship Building and Collaboration
Week 6: Understanding and presenting the PI (Prescribing Information)
Week 7: Metrics /KPI’s
Week 8: Call to action
Introducing Your Instructor:
Audrey’s Journey in Nursing and Pharma
Audrey’s career as a nurse has spanned over 40 years. Her passion for education and the desire to help others shaped her nursing career. Starting her nursing career in the NICU, and eventually moving to the PICU, and OB Gyne, she soon recognized her love for maternal child nursing. After serving as the manager of the Maternal Child department at a mid-sized health center, she was encouraged by her director to undertake an ambitious goal: the development of a comprehensive disease management program for the entire Utilization Management (UM) department.
Fueled by her attitude to never stop learning, she went back to school and obtained a master’s in business administration. While developing the disease management program, she worked collaboratively with pharma industry counterparts. This experience pushed her to explore other non-traditional roles within nursing, eventually landing a pharmaceutical sales role.
Twenty years later, Audrey continues to pay it forward with nurses expressing an interest in getting into the pharmaceutical industry. She informally mentors’ new hires. She currently works as a clinical nurse educator and is a certified dementia practitioner.
When not working, Audrey enjoys gardening, baking, and spending time with family. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, son, and Teddy, her fur baby.
