Summer is swooshing by, the new Crayola 64-packs are in stores, and thoughts are turning back to school. What learning are you contemplating for the fall? What could inject some zip in your career and some zing in your patient care?
Five questions for...
Alberta Health Services has confirmed that the new edition of Bugs & Drugs (hardcopy and iPhone app) is tentatively planned for release in October.
For those who missed advance ordering, or would like to change...
Answer this:
If you are the only pharmacist working with a pharmacy technician (i.e., a regulated health professional who has met all the conditions required for that restricted title), can you step out for coffee for...
Does a pharmacist have to assess a patient’s drug therapy and health history for every one of their blister packs?
Requirements for assessment with compliance packaging
Standard 3.1(b)...
Did you know that a community pharmacy may be granted authorization to temporarily close on one occasion during each calendar year for up to a maximum of 14 consecutive days?
However, licensees must...
The Assessment Manager will manage programs that assess pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to:
- measure and monitor competence, or
- to grant authorizations for additional prescribing or...
On the back cover of the July/Aug acpnews, we posed a scenario about a man seeking a refill on a prescription to treat his eczema and asked what you would do. Here is one...