Medication Management

Insurers argue that PPNs are a way to help employers manage costs and offer good coverage to members. Pharmacist associations say they are payer-directed care that prevents patients from choosing their own pharmacist and break continuity of care.

You must continue to improve so that you can continue to advance your team on their mission. No one will follow a pharmacy leader promoting outdated philosophies and goals for long.

Pharmacists are bad at taking their own advice. We counsel on sleep. We counsel on sleep hygiene. Then we go home and flush it. We doom-scroll our phones, grab a snack because we skipped food while busy at work, and sometimes even pour a drink. Then we sleep poorly and expect ourselves to run an optimal dispensary the next day.

If anything good could have come from the pandemic, it is that pharmacies are now solidified as critically important primary care settings. Whether it be immunizations, prescribing for minor ailments, or pre-travel consultations, pharmacists have stepped up and proven our expertise and value to the healthcare system.

Patient case study: Why did the ER physician want me to call him, urgently, before dispensing this patient’s script for UTI?

'I’m looking at the last email I received from the pharmacy where I recently worked and it’s basically saying either I do 100 (clinical services) a week or they will reduce my hours,' an Ontario pharmacist, who asked not to be identified, told Pharmacy Practice + Business.

They finalize the interim recommendations made on Dec. 3 and 4.

APO-Mometasone nasal spray is prescribed for allergy symptoms in children, for sinusitis in patients aged 12 and older, and for nasal polyps in adults.