Don't Rush to Crush
Australia’s essential guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties.
Australia’s essential guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties.
An article by Linda Graudins (Medication Safety Editor) and Toni Howell (Chair, Medication Safety Leadership Committee) demonstrates the need for medication safety everywhere.
After Medication Safety was declared Australia’s next National Health Priority Area by Health Minister Greg Hunt, Pharmacy GRIT explores the impact of maintaining balance in pharmacy practice and patient care. Every day hospital pharmacists walk a tightrope – judging the potential risks and rewards of intervention – and articles examined harm from antimicrobials, pregabalin and opioids, policy perspectives on the complexity of medicines, and a mother’s journey from a tragic medication error to becoming an international safety advocate.
As each year winds down, we chat with some of the many faces that make our pharmily so special.
Hospital pharmacy allows you to make the strongest impact on patient care through expanding and emerging clinical roles, while leading practice change.
Developed collaboratively by AdPha and the RACGP, the Medicines Management at Transitions of Care resource kit equips healthcare professionals with practical tools to enhance medication safety during patient transitions between care settings.
Advanced Pharmacy Australia's Standards of Practice series is widely utilised and well-referenced by pharmacists and health professionals seeking guidance on the delivery of clinical, operational and specialty hospital pharmacy services.
The Medicines Management at Transitions of Care resource kit equips healthcare professionals with practical tools to enhance medication safety during patient transitions between care settings.
AdPha is governed by a Board comprising seven elected directors and three appointed directors, supported by seven state and territory branches, Specialty Practice streams and other reference and advisory groups.