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Cybersecurity
Electronic Messaging: What About Patient Privacy?

Exploring the risks of using unsecured electronic messaging with patients and healthcare providers.
Opioids, Safety & Security
Effectively Integrating a Time-Delayed Safe into your Pharmacy’s Workflow

Two Designated Managers share how they integrated time-delayed safes in their pharmacies.
Practice Insight
Practice Insight: Ending the Pharmacist Patient Relationship

Know the six things you need to do when ending the pharmacist patient relationship.
Discipline Decisions
Discipline Decisions (May 2023)

Decisions of the Discipline Committee between February 2023 and April 2023.
Board of Directors, Governance
A Message from the Board Chair: Help Contribute to the Future of Pharmacy in the Public Interest

Have you ever thought about running for a position on the Board? Or serving on one of the College’s committees? Here's why you should think about it.

Practice Insight

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.
Practice Insight: Learning from Common Complaints to the College
October 26, 2022
Identify opportunities for improvement in your own practice by learning about the top 5 categories of complaints to the College.

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Focus on Error Prevention

Near Miss Highlights Importance of Therapeutic Check During Transitions of Care
April 5, 2023
Patients are at an increased risk of receiving an inappropriate drug therapy as they transition between healthcare settings.
Impact of Salt Selection in Compounding
November 30, 2022
It is critically important that the correct salt form of a drug is used when preparing prescriptions, including compounded medications.
Importance of Assessing for Therapeutic Appropriateness
June 13, 2022
Under the NAPRA Model Standards of Practice, pharmacists must assess all prescriptions for therapeutic appropriateness before the medication is dispensed.

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Safety and Security

Effectively Integrating a Time-Delayed Safe into your Pharmacy’s Workflow
May 4, 2023
Two Designated Managers share how they integrated time-delayed safes in their pharmacies.
3 Ways Time-Delayed Safes Make Pharmacies and Communities Safer
January 13, 2023
Pharmacy Connection is sharing three ways time-delayed safes help protect pharmacies and communities across the province.
3 Tips to Prevent Pharmacy Robberies
May 6, 2022
While there is no one action that can prevent a robbery, there are steps pharmacies can take to decrease the risk and protect staff and property.

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Board of Directors, Governance

A Message from the Board Chair: Help Contribute to the Future of Pharmacy in the Public Interest

May 4, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Have you ever thought about running for a position on the Board? Or serving on one of the College’s committees? Here’s why you should think about it.

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Opioids, Safety & Security

Effectively Integrating a Time-Delayed Safe into your Pharmacy’s Workflow

May 4, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Two Designated Managers share how they integrated time-delayed safes in their pharmacies.

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Cybersecurity

Electronic Messaging: What About Patient Privacy?

May 3, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Exploring the risks of using unsecured electronic messaging with patients and healthcare providers.

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Practice Insight

Practice Insight: Ending the Pharmacist Patient Relationship

May 3, 2023 by Pharmacy Connection Comments are Disabled

Know the six things you need to do when ending the pharmacist patient relationship.

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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.