ACP is inviting pharmacists to review and comment on the Alberta Provincial Personal Health Portal – Vision and approach document. The feedback from pharmacists is invaluable to this project to help address potential clinical impact, challenges, and opportunities for patient care.
This strategy for the Alberta provincial Personal Health...
Are you a pharmacist practicing in rural Alberta? Are you interested in receiving Additional Prescribing Authorization to provide chronic disease management for your patients?
The Centre for COMmunity Pharmacy Research and Interdisciplinary Strategies (C...
When you receive your certificates of completion for your CEUs, you may notice that some providers state that "a copy of your certificate has been sent to your provincial regulatory body". While this may be true in other provinces, this is not the case for Alberta!
ACP does not receive copies of CEU certificates from any CE providers, so please be sure to keep all of you...
Do you know a pharmacist who is an excellent professional role model? Who is providing outstanding service to the profession of pharmacy? A pharmacist who truly stands-out in their quest to improve patient care?
This November, ACP is hosting a series of meetings throughout the province to provide updates on technician regulation, ACP council priorities for 2010, and general dialogue around emerging issues. We'd love to see you there!
All events are scheduled for 7pm-9pm and light refreshments will be serv...
Feeling left out because all the kids got new pencil crayons and binders, but you didn’t? Well, cure those back-to-school blues by taking a course or attending a conference. This fall is full of opportunities to get your gray matter perking. Discover what’s new in cardiovascular therapy. Put your beliefs to the test at a sympo...
A message from Alberta Netcare:
Pharmacy Batch (PB) file processing is currently experiencing delays. Pharmacies will likely notice that their daily PB dispenses are taking longer than usual to appear in PIN, and their resp...
What do the Queen Mother, Nancy Reagan, Ed McMahon and Fidel Castro have in common?
They are all seniors who have suffered the serious consequences of a preventable fall. Sadly, thousands of seniors fall every year in Alberta, often with devastating results.
Fi...
On Sept. 15, 2009 an online survey was sent to 3377 clinical pharmacists in Alberta.
The survey is to find out if Alberta pharmacists are interested in learning more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and contrib...
Interested in the latest CHEP recommendations and BPC hypertension information?
Sign up for the Oct. 24 Hypertension Management Train the Trainer Event.
WHEN: Sat., Oct. 24, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton
CREDIT: Event is accredited for 4.5 CEUs
...…for the new Practice Skills: Boot campcourse! We have rallied the troops to guide your "basic training" regarding patient assessment and documentation skills. Although we won't be getting you to drop down and give us 20, we do have an exciting and active two-day workshop planned for Nov. 7 and 8, 2009.
The registration deadline is Oct. 2, 2009. Please see the ...
This year’s APEX Award winners will be recognized at a gala event held on May 14, the night before the CPhA conference in Calgary. Help us celebrate excellence in pharmacy by nominating your peers or yourself. The nomination deadline is Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
Pharmacists are doing great work…and it’s time to celebrate that! The APEX (Alberta Pharmac...
Pharmacists are again being asked to be key front-line contacts in an upcoming health campaign targeted at preventing falls among Alberta’s seniors.
The first "Finding Balance" falls prevention program was a great success from the moment it was launched on Nov. 3rd last year by Premier Stelmach, Health and Wellness...
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada has informed the college that their inspectors have found unregistered pesticides used for pets during pharmacy inspections.
Products used on pets that are applied topically (e.g., shampoos or sprays) for the control of arthropods are regulated as pesticides, whereas produ...
On Sept. 1, 2009, a letter was mailed to current Alberta Netcare Portal 2004 users, announcing that Alberta Health and Wellness has set to decommission Portal 2004. Access will no longer be available as of March 31, 2010.
Portal 2004 is a legacy system which has been maintained while the user community migrates to t...
Funding under the Outpatient Cancer Drug Benefit Program for Aromatase Inhibitors (Anastrozole - Arimidex®, Exemestane - Aromasin®, Letrozole - Femara®), is limited for certain breast cancer indications.
...Please make sure that acp_communication@abpharmacy.ca is not being blocked by your email program’s filters. Otherwise, you’ll miss news that’s important to your practice.
Originally published in the September 8, 2009, issue of The Link
Pharmacist assessors are needed for the PEBC OSCE on Sat., Nov. 7 in Calgary. Being an assessor is both personally and professionally rewarding. Assessors play an invaluable role in maintaining the integrity of the licensing process, meeting the needs of the public and upholding the standards of the profession.
Detai...
Want to influence the future of pharmacy, educate and empower inner city youth, and re-energize your own practice in only 3 or 4 afternoons a year? Well, you can!
The SHINE Youth Clinic provides free health services to Edmonton’s inner-city youth. The clinic is managed and staff...
Pharmacists seeking authorization to administer drugs by injection must apply to the college within one year of successful completion of an approved training program.
If more than one year elapses between your training and application, you must complete an...
