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A Blueprint For Public and Workplace Safety
Last fall the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy enacted new rules and regulations that held corporations and non-pharmacist owners accountable to the Board for working conditions and business practices that adversely affect patient safety in the pharmacy. These rules and … Continue reading
March is New Membership Month at TPA
The Pharmacy Alliance is the only organization advocating for pharmacists, pharmacy students and pharmacy technicians that has as its core mission the goal of restoring dignity, self respect and integrity to the profession of pharmacy. We are doing this by … Continue reading
New Member “Join” Button is fixed
The temporary glitch in the new member “join” button has been fixed. By joining TPA today you will be hitting the professional “START” button that will add to our voice to “STOP” the decline in our profession. Your membership will … Continue reading
Moving Forward Requires a Little Effort
“The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step” -Lao-tzu 600 BC One thing all pharmacists can agree upon is that our profession is in disarray and chaos. The reasons for this are numerous and … Continue reading
Finally, Results. A State Board Listens to Pharmacists
Gary Schnabel, RPh Executive Director of the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy “A Pharmacy is a professional environment. It is not the deli counter”. Oregon pharmacists say: We’re not burger flippers Published: Sunday, May 27, 2012, 6:51 AM Updated: Sunday, May … Continue reading
We are up against history. A 60 year deep hole to dig out of.
Our Boy Hubert Humphrey, the turncoat. The lackey of the doctors’ lobby and Pharma. You may not be familiar with the term counter-prescribing. Some pharmacists still believe that this is as important in 2011 as it was in 1965. It … Continue reading
The State Boards Must Be Held Accountable. The Laws are not to be ignored.
Here is an email from one of our members to his state board. The nature of the RRRRRRR program’, one of XXXXXXXs business practices that is an automatic refill service, created numerous instances of unintended polypharmacy. I do … Continue reading
Appropriate Rest Breaks For Pharmacist In The United Kingdom.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society The Pharmaceutical Journal Law and Ethics Bulletin This organization, I believe, is the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the APhA. Since the powers at our APhA would never dirty their hands or soil their reputations with such … Continue reading
A Prime Time Investigation of Dispensing Errors due to Deplorable Working Conditions.
Pharmacists make dispensing errors consistently closer to the end of a 12 hour shift then in the morning. The most serious error I have ever made was on the label of a prescription for Dexamyl Spansules. This was in 1966. The product … Continue reading