‘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.Shameful: an under-served cohort
It is everyone’s responsibility to protect people with disability from medicine harm. We must all do more.
Disabilities, which can be impairments, activity limitations and...
QLD Intern of the Year 2024
Antonia Hurd MPS traversed multiple Queensland pharmacies during her internship, gaining vital experience in rural pharmacy practice.
The accidental pharmacist
Cathie Reid MPS is an entrepreneur, a self-confessed ‘tech geek’, a philanthropist and healthcare pioneer. But her career trajectory could have been very different...
Seltzer is shorthand for carbonated water
In 1772 Joseph Priestley used vitriol, chalk, and water to create ‘an exceedingly pleasant sparkling water, resembling seltzer water’.
The clinical pharmacist
Michelle Sweeney MPS loves hospital pharmacy, especially taking hospital care into the homes of youth with mental health issues.
Looking after number one
Self care should be pharmacists' number one priority. Patients’ needs are important, but the wellbeing of pharmacists is integral to the healthcare system.
