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Guest Blog Post #14: Deprescribing in community pharmacy

The deprescribing.org Blog

Over the past 10 years, Amy has been working as a community pharmacist. From October 2020 to January 2021, Amy worked with Dr. Barbara Farrell in the Bruyère Continuing Care Geriatric Day Hospital and with her Deprescribing Research Team as part of her postgraduate PharmD training. Community pharmacists build relationships.

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Empowering Women: 5 Compelling Reasons Women Pursue a Career in Pharmacy

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for pharmacists in 2021 was $128,570. Flexibility in work hours and settings Pharmacy offers a great deal of flexibility in terms of work hours and settings. They can also work part-time or full-time, and have the ability to create their own schedules.

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Pharmacist vacancies highlight need for funding booster

Pharma Times

New figures from Health Education England (HEE) show that the pharmacist vacancy rate in community pharmacies across England has doubled to 8% between 2017 and 2021.

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Prescribing shift for Pfizer’s Paxlovid expands access but draws questions

Pharmaceutical Technology

Many health systems have their own community pharmacies, with pharmacists working in places like emergency departments, primary care clinics, and specialty clinics where they have access to patient medical records, Ganio says. Paxlovid has proven to be a key growth driver for Pfizer , earning $1.5

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Optimising hospital discharge encouraged in new repeat prescribing toolkit

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The 92-page toolkit commissioned by NHS England after the 2021 National Overprescribing Review, which recognised the impact that poorly operated repeat prescribing can have on overprescribing and problematic polypharmacy. As such, ‘trusts and community pharmacies should make the most of the DMS to reduce avoidable harm’, the guidance stated.

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Morgan Hoeft, PharmD

Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

Adaptations made to delivery of comprehensive medication management in the community pharmacy setting during COVID-19. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 4, Article 100089. JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 4(7), 827-836. Farley, J. Pestka, D. L., & Blanchard, C. Driscoll, T.,

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Fulfilling My Purpose as a Future Bilingual Pharmacist – Honoring Hispanic Heritage in Pharmacy

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

In May of 2021 I received my very first degree, a bachelor’s of arts in Spanish literature with a minor in chemistry and everything seemed so surreal, I could not believe I had made it through those 90 credit hours of prerequisites for pharmacy school when I thought the world was going to end because of organic chemistry 2.