News & Views - Thursday December 6th, 2007
Health-system pharmacy in the past three years has made significant
improvements toward achieving 9 of the 31 objectives in ASHP's 2015 Initiative . . .
We started with the powerful and inspiring words of poet Maya Angelou and continued to the high-quality educational sessions, a fascinating Spotlight on Science session . . .
To give pharmacy's future leaders the opportunity to meet the profession's top echelon, the ASHP Research and Education each year invites . . .
Survey results released Wednesday by the Pharmacy Technician Certification
Board (PTCB) suggest that consumers want states to regulate the people who help pharmacists prepare prescriptions . . .
The winners of the ASHP Foundation's 2007 Literature Awards, a program that recognizes important contributions to the literature of pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems, received their awards . . .
CareerPharm is the answer to pharmacy directors, recruiters and ad agencies eager to hire top pharmacists. It's the career resource center of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacist and the only one you need to find the most qualified, top-notch pharmacists . . .
Pharmacists can earn continuing education credit hours in the comforts of their own home simply by logging onto the ASHP home page (www.ashp.org).The site includes programs that . . .
The ASHP Practitioner Recognition Program is intended to recognize excellence in pharmacy practice and grant recognition to and promote public awareness of pharmacists who have distinguished themselves in practice . . .
The purpose of this national award program is to recognize outstanding leadership in health-system pharmacy who successfully
implemented innovative systems that improve the quality of patient care and demonstrate best practices in health-system
pharmacy. The ASHP Best Practices Award in Health-System Pharmacy was established in 1999 and is awarded by ASHP in cooperation with Baxter . . .
ASHP members have selected Kevin J. Colgan, M.A., FASHP, senior vice president,
Health Economics and Outcomes Research at EPI-Q, Inc. in Oak Brook, Ill., as the Society’s president-elect . . .
The four contributing editors for AJHP, appointed on the basis of expertise in a specialty, help the Journal offer articles that pharmacists can use in keeping abreast of new information relevant to pharmacy practice. Each contributing editor provides . . .
New ASHP messages illustrating the value of hospital and health-system pharmacists are popping up just about everywhere these days . . .
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