Clinical tips: Nausea and vomiting
Patients with nausea and vomiting need help from a pharmacist, writes Karalyn Huxhagen Nausea and vomiting can be acute and short lived eg, food poisoning, or may be chronic eg, …
Clinical tips: Burnout in pharmacy
In this week’s clinical tips, Karalyn Huxhagen urges pharmacists to turn their gaze on themselves and their colleagues One should ponder whether we were heading for a burnt-out pharmacy workforce …
Clinical tips: Atrial Fibrillation
Tools to help pharmacists consider risk for people with AF vary and have limitations, writes Karalyn Huxhagen… who has just found a valuable new one Garfield eats CHADs for Breakfast …
Clinical tips: Chickenpox (Varicella)
Vaccination against chickenpox has been interrupted due to COVID in some regions, writes Karalyn Huxhagen, so pharmacists need to know how to manage it When I was a child if …
Clinical tips: Mental health first aid
Pharmacists can be that one person who really makes a difference in mental health, writes Karalyn Huxhagen There are many bodies offering Mental Health First Aid courses e.g. Pharmaceutical Society …
Clinical tips: Vaccination in pharmacy
While vaccination in pharmacy is maturing and now seen as an essential service, COVID-19 vaccination services won’t just be a simple add-on, warns Karalyn Huxhagen 2021 is the year that …
Wanted: A new groundswell of support
Why are there not rural pathway connectors for pharmacists? asks Karalyn Huxhagen I commend the PSA report ‘Medicine Safety: Rural and Remote Care’ to all new and evolving pharmacists as …
Pharmacy teetering on the edge
New challenges are facing rural and regional pharmacists, writes Karalyn Huxhagen… due to changes to funding The recent change from Pharia modelling to the Modified Monash Modelling has sent waves …
Clinical tips – Back-to-school asthma
Karalyn Huxhagen explores the considerations and triggers for children with asthma who are returning to school or starting for the first time Going back to school or starting school for …
Clinical tips: food poisoning
Karalyn Huxhagen takes a look at the different types of foodborne illness, and how pharmacists can help As pharmacists we are often called upon to provide symptom relief, management advice …
Clinical tips: vaccine hesitancy and refusal
Pharmacists have a key role as mythbusters, writes Karalyn Huxhagen, which will only grow in importance as a COVID-19 vaccine draws nearer Vaccine hesitancy has always been in the human …
Clinical tips: bowel health
There may be many reasons for bowel symptoms, writes Karalyn Huxhagen The Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA) produced an authoritative text to assist health providers to understand the classification of …