‘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.Meet the 2023 NSW PSA Excellence Awards winners
They paved the way for expanded scope of practice for pharmacists, vital programs that advanced the profession, important research and opioid harm minimisation.
Four high...
COVID-19: Huge numbers of residents infected in Victorian aged care facilities
Nearly 800 residents in Victorian residential aged care facilities (RACFs) have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the state’s total number of cases to 9,049.
The pharmacist vaccinator
Mandy Wang MPS is a strong proponent of pharmacist vaccinations, winning the 2020 ACT Early Career Pharmacist of the Year award for delivering extensive vaccination services during the height of COVID-19.
Pharmacists need MHFA training
Just as CPR training can help save a life, mental health first aid (MHFA) is vital education for all pharmacy staff.
Pharmacists can help improve medicine literacy
Helping consumers understand the language of medicines is the key message to emerge from this year’s Be Medicinewise Week.
To improve this understanding, PSA encourages...
Community urged to avoid stockpiling medicines
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has urged the community not to stockpile medicines, as Australian rates of COVID-19 infections continue to rise.
