‘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.
Coping with COVID-19 in an airport pharmacy
Airport pharmacists-in-charge, like Andrew Lieu MPS, were initially frontline defence.
Being a defence force pharmacist
Lieutenant Shreyans ‘Shaz’ Shah MPS, 28, always wanted to serve in the army, but thought that door closed once he became a pharmacist. It...
The scope of practice changes revolutionising health care access
It has been a big week for pharmacy scope of practice, with three states announcing changes to pharmacist prescribing.
Pharmacists will soon need to record pregnancy status in AIR
Reporting pregnancy status when administering vaccines will soon be required for all vaccination providers.
OCP continuance announced in NSW
As the FIP Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences draws to a close, yet another big scope of practice change has been announced.
Valvular heart disease: how pharmacists can help
More than 250,000 Australians have faulty heart valves and are at risk of serious complications, including heart failure, stroke and death – yet don’t know it. Australian Pharmacist spoke to an expert about the symptoms pharmacists should be aware of.
