Medication counselling: pharmacists making an impact
Edited by Medication Safety Editor Linda Graudins, Jessica Bailey presents a compelling article about exciting opportunities for improving medicines information and improving patient safety.
Edited by Medication Safety Editor Linda Graudins, Jessica Bailey presents a compelling article about exciting opportunities for improving medicines information and improving patient safety.
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.
Released the week before SHPA’s Medication Leadership Forum on the same topic, the Winter 2019 issue explores many facets of transitions of care, leading with the proposition that the entire medicines management pathway – from admission to, and discharge from hospital – needs to be scrutinised if we are to ensure safer transitions for hospital patients. Behind a stark hospital-home split screen, members explore other ‘transitions’, including an innovative outpatient antenatal pharmacist advice clinic supporting the transition into motherhood, and the advent of immunotherapies, which represent an enormous transition toward less harmful treatments.
Learn about the lives of our members across Australia, working in a variety of healthcare settings to improve patient outcomes.
Learn about the lives of our members across Australia, working in a variety of healthcare settings to improve patient outcomes.
Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) is the national professional organisation for more than 5,200 pharmacists, pharmacist interns, students, technicians and associates working across Australia’s health system. AdPha is the only professional pharmacy organisation with a strong base of members practising in public and private hospitals and other health services.
As each year winds down, we chat with some of the many faces that make our pharmily so special.
Advocating to ensure pharmacists in hospitals and other healthcare settings are appropriately utilised in this dynamic new healthcare landscape.
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