Medication Management

'Her fever was really high. Her heart rate was over 140. She was in agony,' the girl's mother recounted the nightmare that started in an Edmonton walk-in and took them through the clogged emergency departments of two hospitals.

Horizon Pharma will be forced to lower the price on its life-saving Procysbi medication, after the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board (PMPRB) decided the $300,000-a-year drug was too expensive. 

“I knew I wanted to try different things in the pharmacy profession, so I decided, if I have this opportunity to work with pharmacy students, I want to do it. There was no question about it.”

The Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists notes that outpatient medications dispensed by hospital pharmacies are now entered into the Nova Scotia Drug Information System (NS DIS).

A table of contents for the September/October Tech Talk newsletter, written specifically for pharmacy technicians.

The policy states that “pharmacy technicians who hold an authorization to administer drugs are required to show evidence of CPR and First Aid certification."