‘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.Queensland pharmacists scramble to get ready for free flu vaccines
While PSA welcomed Monday’s announcement for free flu vaccines for Queenslanders aged 5–65, pharmacists on the ground have voiced their frustration that there was no warning or time to prepare ahead of the program rollout.
Patient deterioration and advanced life support medicines
It is an Australian healthcare standard that all Australian hospitals have processes to identify, respond to and manage patients with an acute clinical deterioration, with the goal of reducing in-hospital cardiac arrest and mortality.
The management of acute wounds commonly seen in community pharmacy
Pharmacists can confidently implement wound management principles to identify, assess, manage and know when to refer for specific wounds.
Pharmacists begin delivering flu vaccine
The rollout of the influenza vaccine has begun, with some pharmacy groups having received stock and beginning to administer the vaccine to patients.
The importance of interprofessional collaboration
Case Scenario
The nurse unit manager (NUM) of the general medicine ward in the hospital approaches you. She has noticed that her junior nursing staff...
Achieving gender equity in the pharmacy profession
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, two pharmacists discuss their careers and the biases that must be broken to ensure women can succeed.
