The Alberta Hypertension Initiative is a new provincial project designed to provide health care professionals the latest Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) educational materials. To provide you the latest blood pressure information, we are launching an innovative Alberta program to provide hypertension management tools for you...
You’ve probably heard of the Vision for Pharmacy– a historic document that describes a landscape where pharmacists practice to the full extent of their skills and knowledge to achieve optimal drug therapy outcomes for Canadians through patient-centred care – and a major milestone in the Blueprint for Pharmacy initiative.
Now you can visibly de...
The Standards for Operating Licensed Pharmacies list the requirements for the pharmacy...
The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) invites interested pharmacists to consider participating as an assessor for the PEBC Qualifying Examination – Part II (OSCE). The national exam will be held on Sunday May 24, 2009 at sites in both Edmonton and Calgary.
To qualify you must have been licensed in Canada for at least three years and you mus...
We’re getting closer to pharmacy technician regulation, but for now the status quo continues. Pharmacists are reminded that the supervision requirements for individuals who are not registered as pharmacy technicians are more stringent than those for pharmacist te...
ACP will be holding council elections Districts 1, 2, 3, and 5 this term. Nomination forms and lists of eligible candidates are now available on the ACP website under About ACP/Council or you can use the following links:
Methotrexate (oral and injectable) is a "high alert medication"! In the past month, ACP has been made aware of two medication errors involving oral methotrexate.
In both cases it appears that the medication was dispensed with instructions for daily dosing instead of weekly dosing. One incident is alleged to have occurre...
Janie Tyrrell, a Healthy Beginnings Consultant, wants to make pharmacists and parents aware of a potentially dangerous situation.
"There is a newer Vitamin D preparation available to purchase over the counter" says Janie. "It is called ‘Ddrops’ and is a ...
Now is the time to step up for your profession. Consider taking your seat at the ACP council table.
ACP will be holding council elections in four districts this term:
May 21-23
Banff Springs Hotel
Additional conference events:
ACP AGM – 2:30 to 4:30, Thurs., May 21
APEX Awards – 4:30 to 6:30, Sat., May 23
Organized by physicians, registered nurses and pharmacists and held in beautiful Banff, this is one event you won’t want...
Fear, embarrassment and limited skills often keep patients from asking their health care providers important questions. Research tells us that more than half of the Canadian population cannot understand or evaluate basic health information. How can you help?
The Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA), with ACP, are distributin It’s Okay to Ask, a simple, newspap...
ACP Council is proposing a revised Code of Ethics. Ethics are the foundational framework upon which pharmacists and pharmacy technicians base their day-to-day work. This new code anticipates practice scenarios and technologies not contemplated in the previous version.
The deadline for nominations for the 2009 for the M.J. Huston Pharmacist of the Year is being extended until January 23. The M.J. Huston Pharmacist of the Year honours a pharmacist who has demonstrated outstanding professional excellence in the practice of...
Enter your suggestion for this new electronic newsletter’s name. If your suggestion is chosen, you will win a $200 Future Shop gift card.
Email your suggestions to donotreply@abpharmacy.ca no later than Feb. 5, 2009.
In the event of more than one person suggesting the winning name, the first submission will be declared the winner....
ACP is kicking off the New Year with a handy new publication for you – our bi-weekly e-news bulletin!
To reduce the load on your inbox, this e-newsletter will replace daily acp emails, and instead, group them in a user-friendly, easy to access, bi-weekly format.
Our new e-newsletter will also ensure that you receive the...
