Healthcare

What if you hire the wrong people in your pharmacy?
Once we invest (or waste) time doing (or not doing) something, we do not get it back. Staffing your pharmacy is much the same, since time spent recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training and support a new employee will never be given back. Thus, bringing on the wrong person comes with significant costs.
The hope of healthcare, Part 8 – Skills that increase or decrease in value
When I began my career as an intern, the stories were still common about preparing prescription labels on typewriters. Yes, you read that right. That was the prevailing technology at one time. When printers came along, all sorts of things changed. And for the better. However, if you were a pharmacy that did not improve your technical skill and adopt the printer over the typewriter, you would quickly find yourself at a disadvantage in the care you could provide patients.

Patients in B.C. long-term care homes and N.W.T. hospitals displaced by wildfires

Transferring patients out of long-term care facilities is a time-consuming process because some residents with cognitive disabilities must be accompanied by staff who know them.
Quebec court authorizes class action over alleged sterilization of Indigenous women

Two plaintiffs are leading the suit filed on behalf of all the women from the Atikamekw First Nation who allegedly didn’t consent to a procedure that impaired their fertility.
Only 15% of parents keep medication locked away from their teenage children: survey

Parents believe in the importance of disposing of medication safely—but too few follow through by doing it, which is putting their children at risk, a new survey says.
Contaminated Ayurvedic medicines result in lead toxicity

A woman came to the ER multiple times with unexplained symptoms—until a doctor realized the cause was contaminated Ayurvedic medicine.
U.S. FDA approves RSV vaccine for moms to be to guard their newborns

The next step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must issue recommendations for using the vaccine, named Abrysvo, during pregnancy.
Teva to pay US$225M to settle cholesterol drug price fixing charges

Another generic drug maker, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, agreed to pay a US$30 million criminal penalty and to divest its pravastatin business as well.
Alberta Opposition urges audit of failed provincial lab testing privatization plan

David Shepherd, the NDP’s health critic, says an independent analysis is needed, and that the United Conservative government can’t be trusted to transparently report what went wrong.
‘An egregious impairment of judgment’: Pharmacist used EHR data to contact patient on WhatsApp

Hao ‘David’ Yang has been suspended for three months and fined $3,500 by the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.

What if you hire the wrong people in your pharmacy?

The hope of healthcare, Part 8 – Skills that increase or decrease in value

Patients in B.C. long-term care homes and N.W.T. hospitals displaced by wildfires

Quebec court authorizes class action over alleged sterilization of Indigenous women

Only 15% of parents keep medication locked away from their teenage children: survey

Contaminated Ayurvedic medicines result in lead toxicity

U.S. FDA approves RSV vaccine for moms to be to guard their newborns

Teva to pay US$225M to settle cholesterol drug price fixing charges

Alberta Opposition urges audit of failed provincial lab testing privatization plan

‘An egregious impairment of judgment’: Pharmacist used EHR data to contact patient on WhatsApp