Pharmacy Working Conditions

The global lens does not make the problems disappear, but it makes the progress visible.

A recent CSHP webinar showed how hospitals can use national data to plan staffing and better understand rising drug costs, including an 85% increase in critical care spending per admission.

An Ontario patient challenged a pharmacy’s wait time, but regulators found there was good reason his three prescriptions took 27 minutes to fill.

Prolonged standing, repetitive movements and hours at a computer are all part of everyday pharmacy practice. But pharmacists don’t have to accept sore feet, stiff necks and aching backs as part of the job.

As respiratory virus season comes into full force, those visiting a pharmacy to pick up a pop or nail polish should remember actively sick people could be all around them, says one Canadian microbiologist.

The college will keep its current fee structure for now, with a broader review of fees planned after financial forecasts are developed.

On the humans the system keeps leaving out.

A college committee had found that pharmacy staff knew the pregnant patient was out of medication when they initially told her to return after the long weekend.

The OCP called the pharmacist’s actions a ‘serious disregard for his professional responsibilities’ and ordered a four-month suspension.

Ascension Saint Thomas said four patients received potassium phosphate instead of the anesthetic mepivacaine.