Kristen Watt
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 3/20/2025
It's time to really appreciate pharmacy
As we take time during this Pharmacy Awareness Month to recognize the contributions of pharmacists, it's difficult to ignore the growing challenges facing the profession. - 1/14/2025
Why do we make it so hard for patients to access Paxlovid?
We have a treatment that works for people who get COVID-19. Why are so few of the patients who could benefit from it able to access it? - 7/8/2024
Penalizing the patient for my care? That’s a hard no.
No one loves filling out administrative forms or dealing with supply issues. I get it. But making the patient pay—and blaming the pharmacist—for elements of collaborative patient care that require a bit of extra paperwork? That’s just not right. - 6/16/2024
How to become a leader: Part 2
In the second article in this series on leadership we look at the importance of increasing your visibility by getting involved in advocacy. - 4/16/2024
How to become a pharmacy leader
In the first part of a new series on Leadership, Kristen Watt describes the indirect path she took to become a well-known face and voice in pharmacy. - 2/6/2024
Professional services and total compensation: A model shift?
Funding for services may never be a sustainable business model. What we need is appropriate funding for an adequate number of excellent staff who will raise the level of care for all patients. - 1/9/2024
Actually, adjusting medication dosage is very much within my scope of practice
Contrary to how a local physician admonished me, adjusting medication dosage is absolutely within my scope of practice. Besides, I answer to the patient (who is at the centre of all I do) and to the College of Pharmacists, not to physicians. - 11/29/2023
Drug shortages: Whose problem is this, anyway?
Drug shortages are ongoing and the issue is not going away anytime soon. Pharmacists, you may not like what I’m going to say about how they should be managed... - 10/31/2023
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room
It’s not expanded scope that has us so burnt out and stressed. It’s corporate pressures to perform, and the unceasing noise, confusion and mixed messaging around what we can and can’t do, and how. - 1/2/2023
Help us! No, wait, not like that!
Pharmacists in Ontario (and soon B.C.) are finally officially being recruited to use our skills to take some pressure off the beleaguered healthcare system—as we have in other Canadian provinces for many years. What's really behind all the pushback from the physician community?
