When I was a child, my father had a round wooden coin with the letters TUIT embossed on it. Whenever I would procrastinate, he would toss it to me and say "Here's your round TUIT". That was his way of telling me to get around to it; to get whatever I was procrastinating on done. I have to...
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Last August in this blog I asked if it was time for pharmacy to reassess its licensure model ( http://connect.ashp.org/blogs/david-witmer/2015/08/21/does-pharmacy-need-to-modernize-its-approach-to-licensure ) . Only a couple of you responded with comments. At the time I shared a report from...
As our healthcare system becomes increasingly focused on quality and safety, establishing a process to ensure the competence and capabilities of health care professionals, including pharmacists, is becoming increasingly important. This process is known as credentialing and privileging. ...
Bringing the Practice Advancement Initiative (PAI) to Life for Students A body of research demonstrates that pharmacy practice advancement is for the good of our patients. PAI is also beneficial for all of us – both pharmacists and student pharmacists. To bring students to PAI, and to...
Just as we’ve all heard, if isn’t broke, don’t fix it . At the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy, my SSHP chapter takes great pride in the annual ASHP Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) video competition. Being a previous winner of the prestigious national award ourselves, we...
Contributed by Danielle Beltz (Past President), Heather Deem (Past Policy Chair) Ashton Unger (Past Legal Affairs Chair) and Heather Deem (Policy Chair): NEOMED Class of 2016 A body of research demonstrates that pharmacy practice advancement is for the good of our patients. PAI is also...
Educating the Public on What Pharmacists do IS Part of Providing Healthcare Contributed by Danielle Beltz & Angela Goodhart, Northeast Ohio Medical University Coming this Fall, a new trio of medical drama: Chicago Hope the Pharmacy Edition, ER Pharmacist, and Dipiro’s...
With the school year ending, residency year wrapping up, and the Summer Meeting around the corner, it is certainly the time of the year for transitions. But before the New Practitioner’s Forum Practice Advancement Initiatives Advisory Group (NPF PAIAG) finishes our term, we wanted to share the...
The May 1 issue AJHP features Susan Winckler’s 2014 Zellmer lecture , titled “The Intersection of Public Policy and Professional Responsibility.” I highly recommend that all pharmacists read this paper and ponder its implications as we enter a new era of health care. Winckler...
There’s an old (and probably apocryphal) notion that if you try to put a frog in boiling water, they will immediately jump out. But if you put that same frog in a pan of cold water and slowly bring it to a boil, the frog will simply sit there and cook to death. As ugly as that metaphor is, I...
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