PSA members: the CPD stats
PSA members completed more than 240,000 CPD assessments during the 2015-16 CPD year, according to the latest statistics by the organisation. This trend reinforced that PSA is the single largest …
Are you being served?
Why pharmacy trumps retail for OTC purchases? Consumers give the lowdown Time pressure or cost are not overriding concerns for pharmacy customers, new consumer research reveals. A study of 86 …
APP is moving forward
Jam-packed APP 2017 program now available The program for next years APP Conference has now been revealed. With a four-day education agenda including the latest information and data on pharmacy …
Psychology Week 2016: take the wellbeing survey
Recent survey results show strong offline human connections are vital to happiness, wellbeing and life satisfaction in Aussies Psychology Week is an annual initiative by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) …
Forum: CPD and interactions
“Two online modules from different sources quote interactions with a certain drug which cannot happen in Australia . Stop listing interactions in education modules with Ketoconazole as this has been …
A dispensing error through the eyes of the pharmacist
To make errors is a human trait, writes Johnathan Laird A pharmacist I used to work with once told me that you should worry about all dispensing errors. However, it …
A woman of influence
We recently released our list of Pharmacy’s 10 Women of Influence. Here we speak to Samantha Kourtis, who was ranked the fifth most influential woman in pharmacy. Do you …
Cup stops nation, slows medication
They say it’s the race that stops the nation… but does the Melbourne Cup also stop the medication? It turns out that while Cup Day doesn’t stop scripts being dispensed …
The week in review
It was a big week for honours and awards in pharmacy AJP announced the results of the 10 Women of Influence in pharmacy poll, which received around 2000 total votes …
Hospital pharmacists go bush
Two chemists are ditching city life for a week-long stint in regional Australia When I call Michelle Cassumbhoy and Alana Donaldson, they’re leaving Dalby and making their way to Goondiwindi, …
Poll: do you work through lunch breaks?
Are you getting the breaks you need in the workplace? Earlier this week, PPA reminded employee pharmacists that it is illegal to force pharmacists to routinely work through lunch breaks, unless …
Forum: Pharmacist prescribing in hospitals
“I could not possibly be the only one whom constantly experiences frustration as a result of the limitations which we have placed on us when it comes to prescribing medications. How often …
