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  • Outdriving your pharmacist headlights
    Navigating in pharmacy takes a mindset of being comfortable not always knowing what is just around the corner. In a world where we are used to setting goals and planning long term, we are forced into a new normal that has our answers unveiling themselves with less notice.
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  • Understanding Long COVID: Insights from Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly
    Dr. Al-Aly’s insights are crucial especially for healthcare professionals navigating the complexities of this condition with their patients. He emphasized the importance of recognizing Long COVID as a serious public health issue, one that requires comprehensive, patient-centred approaches for management and support.
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  • Pharmacists, you don’t need enemies . . . but you have to learn to live with them
    Just like your car. You need both the accelerator and the brakes. One without the other can lead to disaster. Someone with a different perspective or tactic is not your enemy. I am reasonably sure they are looking forward to a better tomorrow, just as you are.
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  • 4 top tips to find the right seasonal pharmacy staff when you need them
    Spring has arrived and summer, with vacations and changes in business patterns, is not far behind. It is time to start thinking about seasonal staffing – whether for front shop positions or pharmacy tech jobs.
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  • Pharmacists, good ideas are everywhere!
    Many years ago, I was a floating pharmacist and I had responsibilities to schedule and provide coverage for more than a dozen stores. This was my first leadership role as a pharmacist outside of leading my store teams and patients. I now had the opportunity to lead dozens of pharmacists and work out schedules to keep families happy and stores open.
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  • The unpopular but necessary decisions of pharmacy managers
    There are countless decisions in pharmacy that we need to make even though they may be less than ideal or feel less than comfortable. As the profession continues to adapt to the complexity of healthcare, pharmacy will continue to change and that will mean having to make unpopular yet necessary decisions.
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  • I heard you the second time!
    Have you ever become angry or frustrated because someone didn’t do what you told them to do? Or have you ever not done something in the way you were instructed to do? We all have at one time or another!
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  • Learn this new pharmacy catchphrase: ‘Hold your water’
    A patient acted surprised when I refused to fill a virtual care order for high dose pregabalin after getting an electronic message that he already filled it somewhere else that day. Given that he received seven different pregabalin prescriptions in the past six months from seven different virtual care clinics located in various cities across Canada, my radar was on high alert.
    Patient watching doctor write a prescription
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