MARCH 31, 2025 - RENEWAL DEADLINE
Annually, our students recognize and nominate exemplary practice educators for the Pharmacy Practice Educator of the Year Award. Students are able to voluntarily submit their nominations for those practice educators they feel have gone above and beyond for them, inspiring those around them with their engagement and passion for the pharmacy profession.
Melissa Sheldrick is foremost a wife, mother, teacher and patient safety advocate whose 8 year old son Andrew died in March 2016 because a lethal medication was substituted for his daily medication. When she discovered that there was no required reporting of the error made at the pharmacy, she began her patient advocacy work with the goal of having mandatory error reporting implemented in Ontario, and across the country. She vows to continue until all provinces in Canada mandate anonymous incident reporting to a third party for analysis and feedback.
Setting eligibility requirements to hold a pharmacy licence is one of the key changes to the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act (PODSA). Managers and owners will need to meet the eligibility criteria in the Act, in addition to requirements under the College’s bylaws for a pharmacy to be licenced by the College. These changes allow the College to better protect the public by determining the suitability of a manager or owner.
The College launched a new registrant renewal portal as well as a new employment section on eServices in December 2017.
With the holidays approaching and many pharmacies adopting shortened holiday schedules, it is important that pharmacists with MMT patients who require daily witness ingestion ensure that they are able to accommodate these patient’s dosing schedules.
On January 1, 2018, amendments to Professional Practice Policy – 66, including changing its name from “Methadone Maintenance Treatment” to “Opioid Agonist Treatment,” come into effect. These amendments also include the introduction of new policy guides for buprenorphine/naloxone, and slow-release oral morphine.
On November 28th 2017, BC’s Director of Licensing updated the Standard of Practice for the Prevention of Opioid Overdose Deaths in Community Care Facilities. These changes were minor in nature - they reflect the evolving nature of this issue, and provide further clarification on requirements.
The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety. In previous articles, we discussed the topics of patient ID verification, profile check, and counselling. The final focus area, documentation, ties everything together by leaving a written record of what has been done and identifies the registrant responsible for each step.
The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety. Counseling is one focus area in which pharmacists can use their clinical pharmacy knowledge to directly increase the probability of positive therapeutic outcomes
The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety. One such focus area is the Profile Check, which is a fundamental role pharmacists play within the healthcare team as medication experts.
The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is based on Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety. The first of these focus areas is Patient Identification Verification, which is the very first step to providing pharmacy care.