Patient Compliance

Lessons we can learn from safety incidents in PACUs and recovery areas: ISMP Canada
The ISMPC analyzed dozens of incidents over the last five years in post-anesthetic care units and other recovery areas. It found the errors centred around these three areas
Wound care and first aid simplified for pharmacists
Do you find yourself hesitating when presented with a patient needing your help with wound care? If so, you are not alone. Susie Jin is eager to share how she gained confidence in treating wounds in community pharmacy practice.

Nova Scotia forms partnership with Google Cloud to improve digital healthcare

Premier Tim Houston says the partnership will offer advanced search capabilities to help people find information across the health system, which includes the Nova Scotia Health website and the YourHealthNS app.
Alberta Health Minister LaGrange says hospital transfer plan isn’t ‘hard and fast’

Last month, Premier Danielle Smith told a UCP audience in Drayton Valley, Alta., that she would look to transfer authority of some hospitals to other providers to create competition and fear.
Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says

The patients in the study had already been deemed clinically unresponsive, meaning they had not reacted when asked to give a thumbs up, wiggle their toes or open and close their eyes.
Co-administering RSV and influenza vaccines to seniors is safe: European research

Co-administration poses no health risk and does not impair immune response, according to a new randomized trial.
What to know about the Oropouche virus, also known as sloth fever

Officials are warning U.S. doctors to be on the lookout for the infection in travelers coming from Cuba and South America.
B.C. to open 13 new First Nation primary care clinics, 10 to open this fall

Health minister Adrian Dix says in a statement that the expanded slate of First Nations primary care clinics is another step in ‘dismantling and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism from B.C.’s healthcare system.’
On-Demand Webinar: Know your Vaccines: Navigating the 2024-2025 Influenza Season
Canadian Pharmacists Association releases new mpox resource

The Canadian Pharmacists Association has released a new fact sheet to help pharmacists understand mpox and answer patients’ questions.

Lessons we can learn from safety incidents in PACUs and recovery areas: ISMP Canada

Wound care and first aid simplified for pharmacists

Nova Scotia forms partnership with Google Cloud to improve digital healthcare

Alberta Health Minister LaGrange says hospital transfer plan isn’t ‘hard and fast’

Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says

Co-administering RSV and influenza vaccines to seniors is safe: European research

What to know about the Oropouche virus, also known as sloth fever

B.C. to open 13 new First Nation primary care clinics, 10 to open this fall

On-Demand Webinar: Know your Vaccines: Navigating the 2024-2025 Influenza Season

Canadian Pharmacists Association releases new mpox resource