ACP News

acpnews November/December 2005

November 1, 2005

• Highlights of the Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 council meeting
• Suspended members
• Learning Portfolio tip
• Adding flavours to drug products
• RxCEL CPD Plan
• Multivitamins and vitamin K
• Status of ketamine
• Safety information: Herceptin
• Thioridazine cessation in sales
• Scheduling Tramacet
• Pharmacy services to elderly patients
• Unique residency at UAH
• Alberta Netcare
• International pharmacist orientation
• Staged care for methadone
• Influenza self-care
• Faculty news

acpnews September/October 2005

September 1, 2005

• Important: consultation on draft regulations
• AGM resolutions
• Letter from the president
• Pharmacists and meth precursors
• Online PDL is here
• Med-Effect: new website
• Learning portfolio tip
• EHR and the Third Way
• CPSA Notice
• New CPD Plan
• Self-assessment pilot
• CPD around the world
• Drugs added to Schedule F
• Health Canada advisories
• Award nominations
• Compounding and beyond-use dates
• Management problem solutions
• Sativex
• From the faculty

acpnews July/August 2005

July 1, 2005

• Karen Wolfe - new ACP president
• New faces at the college
• New model for continuing competence
• Learning portfolio audits
• Plan B, minors, and child sexual abuse
• TPP and the HIA
• Interpretation of person and the HIA
• Destroying controlled substances
• Burke Suidan, NAPRA president
• Methadone standards and guidelines
• TPP pads piloted for residents
• MedEffect consultation
• Investigating Committee report
• EHR and security
• Status of ketamine under CDSA
• Alberta adverse reaction office
• Solicitor General award for meth group
• Nominate a colleague
• Grad breakfast
• Health Canada advisories
• Faculty news

acpnews May/June 2005

May 1, 2005

• Plan B now a Schedule 2 drug
• Legislation update
• Developing new standards of practice
• New councillors
• Council responds to feedback
• Spring legislative agenda
• New electronic address
• Have a say: volunteer
• Annual report on web
• Registration renewal time
• Civil liability for med errors
• Award winners
• Website search tips
• Labelling reminder
• Health Canada advisories
• Preventing prescription abuse (EHR)
• Recall notice: Paxil tablets
• Methadone standards and guidelines
• Self-assessment news
• Learning portfolio tip
• NAPRA's anniversary
• Topical opthalmic anaesthetic agents
• Help your patients understand
• Digital photocopiers and fax machines security risk
• Conference news
• From the faculty

acpnews March/April 2005

March 1, 2005

• Minister responds positively to scope of practice proposal
• Call for resolutions
• Registration on the clinical register
• Privacy impact assessments
• Website survey results
• Self-assessment project
• On-site assessment program
• Learning portfolio news
• Natural Health products
• TPP drug list input
• Disposal of fentanyl patches
• Emergency contraception
• Rise in death rate
• Patient safety initiative
• Returning products to pharmacies
• Become a preceptor
• EHR update
• Health Canada advisories
• Safety report: Diovan
• Recall notice: Paxil
• CFC-containing MDIs
• Nicotine inhaler scheduling
• Faxing patient-specific information
• Inaugural White Coat Ceremony
• Helping you cut costs
• New Horizons reminder
• Thanks to conference sponsors
• From the faculty
• Got old texts
• In memoriam

acpnews January/February 2005

January 1, 2005

• An eventful year and a fresh start
• HPA and registration
• Membership fees
• HPA and PDA update
• Emergency contraception
• Council elections
• Call for resolutions
• Sharing patient-specific information
• Web survey
• Award winners
• Privacy - what would you like?
• Self-assessment pilot
• Learning portfolio tip
• HIA and research activities
• Minors and nicotine replacement products
• Submitting TPP forms
• HQCA survey results
• Pharmacists as passport guarantors
• Steady progress for EHR
• A new ACT
• VIPPS program
• Health Canada advisories
• New Horizons Awards
• 2005 Conference
• From the faculty