7 Tips for a Great Start at a New Job
Starting a new job can be exciting, but the first days or weeks can feel overwhelming. Whether you’re a new pharmacy school …
CMS Call Letter: What You Need to Know for 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized changes to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Programs for 2017 in its 2017 …
Taking Advantage of Pharmacy Job Market Uncertainty
If there is any topic that I talk a lot about with pharmacy students and pharmacy professionals it would have to be the …
An Inside Look into a Pharmacist’s Income
One day, I was sucking down ramen and realized that a few weeks later I would make more than a hundred grand …
ASHP Launches Standardize 4 Safety Initiative to Improve Medication Safety
ASHP announced the official launch of Standardize 4 Safety, a three-year, multiphase interprofessional initiative focused on creating and promoting national standard concentrations for …
WSJ Op-Ed Calls for Including Pharmacists on Patient Care Teams
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed assessing ways to reduce medical errors in the U.S. strongly recommends including pharmacists on care teams. “How …
Overtime Pay Rules will Affect Millions of Healthcare Workers
Millions of full-time healthcare workers will be eligible for overtime pay under a new federal rule that nearly doubled the threshold at …
More Pharmacists in ER Mean Better Patient Care
IMAGINE A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM (ER) with no radiology services available. To emergency physician Tim Meehan, M.D., MPH, an ER or ED …
10 Things You Never Knew About Your Pharmacist
It’s so much more than just handing someone their prescription. 1. Working in pharmacy is about more than just counting pills. …
Multimillion-Dollar Project Confirms Value of Clinic-Based Pharmacy Care
Dallas, TX University of Southern California (USC) pharmacist Steven Chen is confident that data from a nearly completed multimillion-dollar project will definitively …