News & Views - Wednesday December 5th, 2007
"My mother always says, If you have a cold, you have to have chicken soup," said Kennedy, director of the Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education at the Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy in New Orleans. "There are certain things that people believe: That you're not going to get better unless you have that chicken soup." . . .
They want to QUIT - completely. Survey
after survey shows that 70 percent of smokers would rather quit than join the approximately 100 million persons who died due to tobacco in the previous century. In 2002 alone, an estimated . . .
As pharmacy continues to grow and evolve, there are many important challenges and emerging opportunities that are before the profession. Amid this exciting time, the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers (SPPM) . . .
The new version of United States Pharmacopeia (USP) chapter 797 places much more emphasis than does the original on the . . .
Plan for Basel '08
Join hospital pharmacists from around the world August 30-31 in Basel, Switzerland, for the Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy.
The conference aims to develop a consensus among the world's hospital pharmacy leaders and practitioners regarding the preferred future of hospital pharmacy practice.
Come to booth 862 during the hours of the Exhibit Program to learn more about the conference from Satu J. Siiskonen.
The host for the conference is the Hospital Pharmacy Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. English will be the official language.
In the United States, most of us believe a disaster will not happen to us. And because of this, we live in an increasingly reactive society, not a pro-active or resilient one, according to Jeffrey Bratberg, a presenter in the Wednesday afternoon session, "Emergency Planning for Logistical and Operational Surge Capacity." . . .
The Pharmacy Leadership Institute seeks to bring together bright, highly motivated pharmacists with considerable professional leadership and management experience. Its integrated curriculum centers around the issues . . .
Preparing for the future means more than just waiting for it to happen. Sometimes it means making it happen. Creating our own future is exactly what ASHP is aiming for with its Long-Range Vision for the Pharmacy Work Force in Hospitals and Health Systems . . .
Part of the front-line team involved with evaluating patients and providing the best care at critical times, an emergency pharmacist has little if anything to do with dispensing or with medication reconciliation . . .
More than 1.5 million people get sick, are injured, or killed each year by preventable medication errors. More deaths are linked to this growing concern, about one death per day, than can be attributed to breast cancer or AIDS. Yet many health care professionals continue to rely on unregulated, unevaluated drug information provided by questionable sources . . .
ASHP's new tag line, "Together we make a great team" is a perfect description of the unique aspects of practice in hospitals and health systems and the work ASHP undertakes on your behalf . . .
This year, the 2nd ASHP Great Expectations Conference (Great X) kicked off on September 14th in Chicago, IL. This particular conference is created "by New Practitioners for New Practitioners" and proved a great success! The conference, targeted at meeting the needs of practitioners . . .
Have you or someone on your staff established any of these programs at your health system? . . .
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