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This spring’s PEBC results will be released on July 8. A pharmacy intern cannot be licensed as a clinical pharmacist until ACP receives confirmation that the intern has successfully passed the Qualifying Examination.

What do you do if your patient exhibits drug seeking behaviour? What are the best ways to manage patients on opioids for non-cancer pain? Attend ACP’s Addiction symposium to find out.

It will be an event you don’t want to miss!

Be inspired by expert speakers and interactive wor...

As May 31 approaches and pharmacists begin completing their online CPD log, many questions may surface. ACP has prepared the following quick hints to help you find the answers you need.

To access your online CPD log:

Community pharmacists – here is your opportunity to receive free:

• Training and education on vascular risk reduction screening and management
• Vascular risk patient education materials
• Access to vascular risk reduction experts
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They mentor staff and students, analyze practice, ease the agony of cancer, and welcome refugees to a new country. They juggle their professional, community, and family obligations, and still find time to pursue higher learning. Some have been at it for years; others are just beginning.

What do they have in common? Their...

ACP council will welcome Taciana Pereira as its newest member from District 3 (Edmonton). Taciana holds a pharmacy leadership role with Alberta Health Services. Her three-year term will begin on July 1. Welcome Taciana!

Describe your pharmacy practice interests.
My practice interests are in mental health, working with v...

What should you:

Tell your patient who is concerned about opioid addiction?
Do if you are concerned about the frequency of a patient’s opioid fills?
Do if your patient is demonstrating drug seeking behaviours?
Watch for when administering your patient’s daily dose of methadone?

Atten...

While the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association (RxA) works with government to develop an economic path forward, ACP will continue to pursue a health environment where patients and the health system benefit from the expertise of appropriately supported pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who coordinate and take responsi...

How would you like to eliminate failures before they occur in your pharmacy? We have a new module to help you do just that.

Mitigate risks in your practice

Together with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada), we are pleased to introduce the second module for ...

Alberta Health has learned that some physicians are prescribing rotavirus vaccine to infants during office visits. The problem with this practice is that the rotavirus vaccine is sometimes being administered to infants by th...

Learn the skills you need to apply to the new practice framework in Alberta at Boot Camp for Operation ACD: Assessment, Documentation and Communication.

Registration Deadline:  May 3, 2013

At the workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice your new found skills with standardi...

The Vascular Risk Reduction-Community Pharmacy project needs community pharmacists to show how they can add value to patient care and play a larger role in cardiovascular risk reduction. Success in this project could pave the way for greater pharmacist...

The college continues to receive calls about pharmacists confusing injectable dimenhydrinate and diphenhydramine (i.e., Gravol and Benadryl) and dispensing the incorrect medication to cancer patients in the community pharmacy setting. The drugs are not interchangeable.

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