Medication Management

Calendar of Events for pharmacy techs

Saskatchewan Polytechnic has received formal approval to change its credential from a certificate to a diploma, and will expand its program to two years beginning in September 2017. The college is currently accredited until the end of June 2017, and was recently visited for extension of its accreditation status, explains Dr. K. Wayne Hindmarsh.

As the saying goes: choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” If that’s the case, Lisa Hynes hasn’t “worked” since joining Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) in Edmonton as a pharmacy technician. “I just love my job,” she says.

The Pharmacy Technician Society of Alberta (PTSA) has collaborated with the Alberta Pharmacists Association (RxA), the Alberta College of Pharmacists (ACP), and the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists—Alberta Branch (CSHP-AB) to develop the document “A Vision for the Future of a Healthy Alberta.

Pharmacists can be effectively trained to recommend and apply genetic testing results for their patients to tailor their medications for better therapeutic results, says Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller, a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto.

Health Canada safety review reveals potential link between “gliptin” type 2 diabetes drugs and disabling joint pain

A pharmacist in Cape Breton has been fired and temporarily stripped of her licence for baking marijuana cookies for a patient and packaging them in a prescription bag.

Pharmacists’ untapped value as providers of healthcare services came up at the Healthy Canada conference hosted by The Conference Board of Canada in Toronto last week—and reimbursement as well as quality assurance were among the make-or-break factors needed to move from theory to practice.