Pharmacies should be fine-tuning their operations regularly. In truth, it's not always possible to find the time or energy to keep things humming. Here are a few areas, though, that you should take the time to review:

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After graduation, I started off as a staff pharmacist, providing patient care and practising to my full scope of practice. I learned a lot from my boss at the time, as well as from the other pharmacists and staff I was working with. Then the pandemic hit.

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After two years of atypically low flu seasons due to COVID public health measures, we may be in for a tough fall. As influenza transmission/exposure was low in the community over the last 2 years, there is concern over the reduction in natural immunity to influenza.

This is a little thing we like to call the Name Game. Today, we are playing Pokémon or drug.

Understanding the hardships of building a new life in an unfamiliar country, I am driven and passionate about helping my patients who face similar challenges to those I faced not so long ago.

The Drug InterACTIONs with Tobacco Smoke Tool was developed to assist Canadian pharmacists identify drug interactions with the polyaromatic hydrocarbons in tobacco smoke and to provide some guidance on their management.

When I went through my undergraduate education in pharmacy, I was told, if there are red flag symptoms/signs, refer to a doctor. That was the end of that conversation.