Pharmacy Careers

Often when things get challenging, our default is to fall into complaining and negativity. While that might feel satisfying for a moment, it serves no one and can drag down the morale of everyone around us.

Leadership skills can be learned. These are skills that anyone and everyone can learn and should learn! These are skills that can reduce or eliminate the problems we face every day in our pharmacy lives. But for the most part we are left to learn the lessons on our own. As a result, we find ourselves playing in a game where we do not know the rules, and we become frustrated.

I’ve been so close to death on so many occasions that I should be dead.

Many stakeholders remain reluctant to embrace new roles for pharmacists. Despite this, I remain committed to advocating for the expanded role of pharmacists in healthcare, confident that continued education and collaboration will eventually lead to broader acceptance and integration.

Contentions on preferred provider networks are back in the spotlight. What's your experience with them as a pharmacist?

After picking up what was supposed to be a sleeping pill, a 77-year-old patient ended up in the emergency room and suffered complications after ingesting the Suboxone dispensed by the pharmacist on duty.

With point-of-care testing becoming more common in Canadian pharmacies, here are some tips to ensure the success of a community pharmacy-­based warfarin management service.

The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is most recently linked to social media but I believe it can be applied to a wider spectrum in an effort to support pharmacy leaders in their everyday lives. FOMO is an anxiety that an exciting event is occurring without us, flushing our brains with a depressed mood.