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Quality Assurance
Community Practice Essentials: Five Requirements for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

During practice assessments, advisors have noted some common areas where registrants are not meeting the expectations of the Standards of Practice. Learn about these five practice essentials to support safe and quality patient care.
Scope of Practice
Six New Minor Ailments Now Authorized for Assessment and Prescribing

Access resources to support you in assessing and prescribing for minor ailments.
AIMS, Focus on Error Prevention
The Importance of Pharmacist Interventions

These cases highlight the potential for medication errors if unregulated pharmacy staff members misinterpret prescriptions and there is no pharmacist consultation.
AIMS
AIMS: Recognizing the Value of Good Catches (Near Misses)

Learn when and why you should record medication events that don't reach the patient.

Practice Insight

Practice Insight: A Satisfactory Resolution to a Complaint About Communication
September 6, 2023
Respectful communication, an openness to feedback and a commitment to professional improvement all play a role in a patient's experience at the pharmacy and with the complaint process.
Practice Insight: Ending the Pharmacist Patient Relationship
May 3, 2023
Know the six things you need to do when ending the pharmacist patient relationship.
Practice Insight: Privacy Breaches and the Circle of Care
January 9, 2023
Six key things you should know about accessing personal health information.

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Medication Safety

The Importance of Pharmacist Interventions
October 3, 2023
These cases highlight the potential for medication errors if unregulated pharmacy staff members misinterpret prescriptions and there is no pharmacist consultation.
AIMS: Recognizing the Value of Good Catches (Near Misses)
October 3, 2023
Learn when and why you should record medication events that don't reach the patient.
A Series of Missed Opportunities to Prevent a Medication Incident
July 12, 2023
Written prescriptions increase the potential for error, making therapeutic patient assessments more important than ever.

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EDI

Six Key Resources to Support Indigenous Cultural Competency
September 6, 2023
Support truth and reconciliation and culturally competent healthcare through these free resources.
The Importance of Inclusive, Relevant Care: In Conversation with Community Pharmacist Connor Gibney
May 31, 2023
Explore considerations and tools you can use in your practice to provide safe, relevant and inclusive care.
Duty to Accommodate Patients with Disabilities
April 5, 2023
Patients have a right to expect that a reasonable accommodation will be made to ensure that they have fair access to the healthcare services they need.

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Quality Assurance

Community Practice Essentials: Five Requirements for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

October 31, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

During practice assessments, advisors have noted some common areas where registrants are not meeting the expectations of the Standards of Practice. Learn about these five practice essentials to support safe and quality patient care.

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AIMS, Focus on Error Prevention

The Importance of Pharmacist Interventions

October 3, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

These cases highlight the potential for medication errors if unregulated pharmacy staff members misinterpret prescriptions and there is no pharmacist consultation.

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Scope of Practice

Six New Minor Ailments Now Authorized for Assessment and Prescribing

October 3, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Access resources to support you in assessing and prescribing for minor ailments.

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AIMS

AIMS: Recognizing the Value of Good Catches (Near Misses)

October 3, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Learn when and why you should record medication events that don’t reach the patient.

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About Pharmacy Connection

The objectives of Pharmacy Connection are to communicate information about College activities and policies as well as provincial and federal initiatives affecting the profession; to encourage dialogue and discuss issues of interest to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and applicants; to promote interprofessional collaboration of members with other allied health care professionals; and to communicate our role to members and stakeholders as regulator of the profession in the public interest.