Pharmacy Business

The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities has updated its handy charts that compare between jurisdictions.

With heavy workloads and so many distractions, it’s hard for pharmacists to always be present, let alone pleasant. Pharmacist Stephanie Burden shares some useful advice.

The machines are secured with biometric scans, make up a very small part of the legal hydromorphone tablets dispensed in Vancouver, and don’t pose a higher risk than pharmacy pick-ups or in-house deliveries in safe supply, the organization says.

A pharmacist was fined thousands after she let an unregulated employee secure drugs, prepare prescriptions and give prepared medications to customers unsupervised.

Metro pharmacies will begin using the e-prescribing service PrescribeIT in all its stores by April 2023. The change will happen in both Metro and Food Basics Pharmacies.

The U.S. FTC said that Shkreli failed to comply with an investigation into whether his new company violated his ban by not turning over requested documents and failing to sit to be interviewed.

Relative to the history of our profession, only more recently have pharmacists been pushed to invent from scratch through prescribing. This is a new mental model, where we use the same analysis but then move on to create the solution instead of select it from what is put in front of us.

I am using this opportunity to tell you about my mistakes. To destigmatize mistakes. To hear from experts about professional practice, remediation, and discipline. To talk about root cause analysis and the true utility of being honest with yourself.