Pharmacy Connection
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Featured Articles:
Interchangeability
Pharmacy Practice at Sault Area Hospital
Ontario’s Physician Assistant Initiative
Online Renewal Process
Bridging Education Program
ISMP - Methadone
Pharmacies, Long-Term Care Project Working Together on Common Assessment
Regular Articles:
Advisory Notice - Scope of Practice of Pharmacy
Advisory Notice - Proposed Registration regulations
Focus on Error Prevention - Similarities in Packaging
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Featured Articles:
Changes to member annual renewal process
New Electoral Boundries to come into effect June 2010
Proposed Regulations for Issuance and Renewal of a Certificate of Accreditation
Educational Requirements for Pharmacy Technicians
Turning the Heat Down on Patient Anger
Changes that Affect Pharmacists and Pharmacies
Regular Articles:
Call for non-Council Committee Members and Pharmacy Technician Observers
Focus on Error Prevention - Similarity Between Two Product Names
Featured Articles:
Public Education Program takes new steps forward
Canada’s Newest Pharmacy Program
Logged Prescriptions ≠ Refill Prescriptions
Nurse Practitioner is Now a Protected Title
National Pharmacy Technician Competencies
ISMP - Near Miss Identifcation and Reporting
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Securing Your Pharmacy)
Coroner’s Report (Combined Toxic Effects of Methadone and Ethanol)
Focus on Error Prevention (Addition of an Incorrect Diluent)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance: A 10 Year Review
ISMP - Fentanyl Patch
Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
Practice Advisory
Buprenorphine
Regular Articles:
Coroner’s Report (C.Difficile)
Focus on Error Prevention (Patient Unaware of Prescription Changes)
Featured Articles:
Electoral Districts & Members of Council
2007-08 Committee Appointments
Personal Professional Liability Insurance
Medication Review
Medication Safety Assessment Program
Reviewing Health Canada Advisories
Update on Technicians Regulation
ISMP - Methadone
Coroner’s Recommendation
Regular Articles:
Close Up on Complaints (Patient Counselling)
Focus on Error Prevention (Sensitivity to Inactive Ingredients)
Featured Articles:
MedsCheck Program
Methadone Locked Boxes
Update on Technicians Regulation
Informed Consent
Patient Relations Program
SPT - Finding a Preceptor
Online Professional Development
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Unclear Meaning of a Prescription)
Close Up on Complaints (Collaboration Amongst Healthcare Professionals)
Featured Articles:
Personal Professional Liability Insurance
Highlights of Bill 171
ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin (Unexpected Hypoglycemia)
Medical Directives and Delegations
New and Innovative Models of Pharmacy Practice
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close Up on Complaints (Right DIN, Wrong Drug)
Focus on Error Prevention (Changing the Strength of a Medication)
Featured Articles:
Policy on Directives and Delegation
Practice Advisory Sessions
Best Possible Medications History Guidelines
Guidelines for Prescriptions transmitted by fax
Privacy Commissioner’s Message
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Putting Care back into Health)
Inspector’s Corner (Balance Owing & Documentation)
Close up on Complaints (Cognitive Skills)
Featured Articles:
Pharmacists Without Borders
Your Health Matters!
Technician Regulation
Code of Ethics
Methadone Education Programs
Regular Articles:
Submitting CE Programs
Focus on Error Prevention (Calculation Errors)
Inspector’s Corner (Opening a new pharmacy: A checklist)
Featured Articles:
District Meetings
Technician Regulation
Pandemic Planning
Meet your CE Coordinators
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Concern – Re: Sexual Harassment Article)
Close up on Complaints (Verifying Narcotic Prescriptions: A guide to vigilance)
Inspector’s Corner: Maintaining a Professional Workplace Environment)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Incorrect Drugs)
Featured Articles:
2006/2007 Electoral Districts and Members of Council
OCP Council Committee Appointments
A Summer Student’s View of the College
ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin: Transdermal Fentanyl
Celebrating 35 years as Curator of the Niagara Apothecary
Regular Articles:
Coroner’s Report (16th Annual Report of the Geriatric and LTC Review Committee)
Close up on Complaints (A Pharmacist’s Accountability in Response to a Dispensing Error)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Drugs for Teenagers)
Featured Articles:
2006 Public Education Program
Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building at the University of Toronto
District Meetings 2006
Your Health Care – Be Involved
Online Learning
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Preventing and Handling Prescription Forgeries)
Close up on Complaints (“Red Flags”: Dispensing a Sedative to a Child)
Focus on Error Prevention (Unique Oral Liquid Medications Dosages)
Featured Articles:
Proposed Standards for Pharmacists Providing Pharmacy Services to Licensed Long-Term Care Facilities
Moving Forward with Regulating Pharmacy Technicians
Guidelines to Compounding Preparations
Policy for Dispensing Methadone
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Computer Data Entry Errors)
Featured Articles:
U of W School of Pharmacy
Technician Survey
Medication Reconciliation
Secure Destruction of Personal Information
Pharmacies Displaying the Point of Care
Impact of Tool Kit
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (The Complaints Process Unveiled)
Focus on Error Prevention (Product-identifying DIN)
Featured Articles:
A Culture of Continuing Quality Improvement
Quality Assurance
Privacy Obligations in Long Term Health Care Settings
Non Supervision of Pharmacies
Are You Displaying Your Point of Care?
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Dispensing Dosettes: Multiple Medications Require Close Attention)
Letter to the Editor (Discipline: Misrepresentation of Pharmacist/Intern)
Inspector’s Corner (Understanding the Inspection Process: Review of Documentation of Dialogue)
Focus on Error Prevention (Use of facsimile (fax) technology)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance
Challenges and Opportunities for Preceptors
Disclosure of Information for an Emergency
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (A Matter of Professionalism)
Focus on Error Prevention (Computer Technology and medication errors)
Featured Articles:
A New Way of Looking at the Practice Review
Self-Assessment Survey Evaluation
Medication Consultation Services
Infection Control Resource for Pharmacists
A Safety Initiative for Community Pharmacists
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Inappropriate use of fentanyl patches)
Coroner’s Report (The Use of Drugs in the Elderly)
Featured Articles:
The Registered Pharmacy Technician
Doors Open Niagara
Q&A Structured Practical Training
Crystal Meth Advisory
Sexual Harassment in Pharmacies
International Pharmacy Graduate Program
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Pharmacy Privacy Policy and Practices Considered Exemplary)
Letter to the Editor (Safe Medication Practice)
Focus on Error Prevention (Brand Extensions Can Lead to Confusion)
Featured Articles:
Point of Care Public Education Program
Family Health Teams
Evaluation of the Learning Portfolio
Q&A Self-Assessment Survey
The Ontario Health Pandemic Influenza Plan
Improving Patient’s Safety
List of Error-Prone Abbreviations
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Preventing Dispensing Errors)
Coroner’s Report (Eating Disorder Case: Hypokalemia/Lithium)
Focus on Error Prevention (Tip caps on hypodermic syringes)
Featured Articles:
The Niagara Apothecary
Your Health Matters
How to Use Emergency Contraception Pills
Update on Regulatory Issues
ISMP: Medication Safety
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Elder Abuse Assessment & Intervention Reference Guide)
Letters to the Editor (OTC Sale – Schedule II Codeine)
Close up on Complaints (Professional Judgement: Dispensing to Self-Prescribing Physicians or Their Families)
Focus on Error Prevention (Confusion Over the Similarity of Drug Names)
Inspector’s Corner (Curbing Diversion: Validity of Prescriptions)
Coroner’s Report (Intravenous injection potassium chloride)
Featured Articles:
Professionals Health Program
New School of Pharmacy at University of Waterloo
OxyContin Abuse and Diversion
MethWatch Program
Displaying the Point of Care Symbol
Q&A Structured Practical Training
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Recognition of Good Work)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing of an incorrect drug)
Featured Articles:
Proposed Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Technicians
Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Managers
OCP Connects
Professional Health Information Protection Act
Pharmacy Connection Reader’s Survey
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Documenting Schedule II Codeine Sales is Essential)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance
Professional Health Information Protection Act
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy Survey
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Errors)
Featured Articles:
Personal Health Information Protection Act
Optimizing the Pharmacist’s Role
Self-Perceived Learning Needs and Experiences
14th Annual Geriatric Report
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Promoting a healthy diet and lifestyle)
Focus on Error Prevention (Drug Identification Number (DIN)
Featured Articles:
Emergency Contraception
Board of Inquiry
Professional Health Program
Methadone Maintenance Treatment Prescriptions
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Incorrect dispensing of the drug folic acid)
Featured Articles:
Points of Care in Ontario
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Non-Supervision of a Pharmacy: Responsibilities of a Designated Manager)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpretation of Decimal Point)
Featured Articles:
Making Strides in Increasing Public Awareness
Tips on Displaying the Point of Care Symbol
Recommendation on Drug Use in the Elderly
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Safe Disposal of Medication)
Focus on Error Prevention (Sound-alike Look-alike Drugs)
Featured Articles:
Documentation Guidelines for Pharmacists 2004
Natural Health Product Regulations
International Pharmacy Graduate Showcase
Changes to Quality Assurance
Certified Pharmacy Technician Exams
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Increased Forgeries Require Greater Diligence)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpretation of the prescriber's intent)
Featured Articles:
Getting Ready for Privacy Legislation
Reinstatement Proceedings
Points of Care in Ontario
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Patient’s Appreciation - Complaints Committee Decision)
Inspector’s Corner (Conducting Narcotic Inventories and Reconciliations)
Close up on Complaints (Possible Interactions with Birth Control Pills: Making your Patient Aware)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpreting Written Prescriptions)
Featured Articles:
Pharmacy Technician Competency Profile
Guidelines for Incapacity
Moving From Part B to Part A of the Registrar
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Dialogue for Schedule II Products)
Inspector’s Corner (Action Plan’s)
Featured Articles:
Precursors to Illicit Drugs
Precursors Control Regulations Chart
Quebec Ontario Memorandum of Understanding
Point of Care
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (The Inspection Process)
Close up on Complaints (Altering Third Party Payor Information: Acting Out of the SOP’s Role)
Coroner’s Report (Treatment for Depression – Pregnant women - Welfare)
Focus on Error Prevention (Counselling Patients on Prescription Renewals/Changes)
Featured Articles:
Schedule II Drugs
Demistifying the Practice Review
Self-Perceived Learning Needs and Experiences
Point of Care
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Drug Schedules)
Close up on Complaints (…A Pharmacist Makes a Choice)
Coroner’s Report (Hydromorphone leading to death)
Focus on Error Prevention (Mislabelling Prescription Vials)
Featured Articles:
Seeking Best Practices
Pharmacists Have Heart…
Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Mandatory Reporting
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Illegible Latin Abbreviations)
Have your say (Documenting Patient Counselling)
Featured Articles:
Coming Soon…
New Member-Focused IT System
Pharmacy Visits & Inspections
Learning Portfolio
Geriatric & Long-Term Care Report
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Using More than One Stock Bottle)
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