‘We’re increasingly seeing incidents where alert fatigue has been identified as a contributing factor. It’s not that there wasn’t an alert in place, but that it was lost among the other alerts the clinician saw,’ Prof Baysari says.
Pharmacists on frontline share vaccination and lockdown experiences
Tasmanian pharmacists new to the rollout discuss encouraging vaccination despite low case numbers, while a newly locked-down pharmacist in Canberra shares how she quickly adapted to restrictions.
What went right (and wrong) with Australia’s COVID-19 response?
COVID-19 enquiry criticises delays involving pharmacists in rollout, calling for urgent harmonisation of vaccine scope.
Pioneering pharmacists
Megan Tremlett MPS and Sue Carson MPS are two pharmacists forging new roles outside the norm in pharmacy.
At PSA Queensland’s Annual Therapeutic Update this...
Breaking the seal
These are the four areas pharmacists need to consider when manipulating or repackaging commercial products.
Pharmacists warned to be on alert for coronavirus infections
Pharmacists are encouraged to get a travel history for patients presenting with flu-like symptoms, with five cases so far in Australia1 of the novel...
Quitting smoking is more important than ever. Here’s how pharmacists can...
A new study found people who smoke are 1.4 times more likely to have severe symptoms of COVID-19 and about 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non-smokers.
