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Contents:
Editor’s Message
President’s Message
Council Report
Committee Appointments 2011/2012
2011/2012 Members of Council
Navigating the Grey with Marshall Moleschi
Medication Safety in Pediatrics
Changes to the DPRA, Focus on Prescription Transfers
The IMAGINE Clinic
From the Student’s Desk
Online Elections
Celebrating 140 Years
Call for Preceptors
Report on Technology
Resolving Inter-professional Conflict
Understanding Designated Managers Policies
Update on Registration
Renewing Ontario Registration
Recommendations for Prevention of Morphine/Hydromorphone Medication Errors
OCP Guideline on Dispensing Components Included in the Usual and Customary Fee
OCP Guideline on Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries and Preventing Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Ontario’s Narcotics Strategy
Discipline Decisions
Focus on Error Prevention: Adding a Suffix to a Brand Name
CE Resources
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| Past Issues |
Contents:
Editor’s Message
President’s Message
Council Report
New Registrar for OCP
Joint Statement about Refilling Prescriptions
New U of T Curriculum starts this fall
OCP Helps Optometrists to See Prescribing Clearly
Workshops Emphasize Collaboration And Communication
New Branding Continues to Take Shape
Report of Patient Safety Review Committee Valuable for Pharmacists
IPG Goes Online
Report on Technology
Registration Review
New Hallman Director and Associate Dean of Pharmacy
Bulletin Board
New Accountabilities and Responsibilities for DMs
Understanding Registration Timelines
Discipline Decisions
Focus on Error Prevention: Computer-Generated Prescribing Errors
CE Resources
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Contents:
Editor’s Message
President’s Message
Council Report
Changes to DPRA Regulations
Farewell to Registrar Williams
Regulating the Use of Social Media
CE Coordinators
Report on Technology
SPT Moving Online
NCCMs Needed
Pharmacy Technicians Update
Registration Q&A
Practice Q&A
Pharmacy Practice Notices
Discipline Decisions
Focus on Error Prevention - Alternative Dosage Forms
Public Education Campaign
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Contents:
Editor’s Message
Registrar’s Message
The New Look of OCP
December 2010 Council Report
Celebrating Pharmacy Technician Regulation
Pharmacy Technician Regulation: What's Next?
Morphine For Pain Relief In Children
Narcotic Reporting
Practice Q&A
Pharmacists' Annual Renewal
Pharmacy Accreditation Renewal
Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Dispensing Policy
Compliance Packaging
Action Plans Move Online
Discipline Decisions
Our Thanks to 2010 Preceptors
Focus on Error Prevention - Travel prophylaxis
Continuing Professional Development for Pharmacy Technicians
Common Therapeutic Issues and CE Topics
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Featured Articles:
OCP Policy: Fees for Professional Pharmacy Services
2010/2011 Members of Council
Committee Appointments 2010/2011
Protecting Personal Health Information
Patient Privacy is in Your Hands
Collaborative Practice
New Registration Regulation
A World of Opportunity for International Pharmacists
Continuing Professional Development for Pharmacy Technicians
2011 Preceptor Workshops
The Root of a Dispensing Error
Students share their perspective on working at the College
Update on Technology
Important dates for Pharmacy Technician Applicants
Workshops for Improved Opioid Use
Regular Articles:
Council Report
Practice Q&A - Privacy
Did you know?
Focus on Error Prevention - Methadone Maintenance
Deciding on Discipline
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Featured Articles:
Remote Dispensing
Standards of Practice for Canadian Pharmacists
Anti-Infective Guidelines
Compliance Packaging
Medication Safety in Pharmacies
Regular Articles:
Letters to the Editor
Council Report
Did You Know...
Focus on Error Prevention - Illegible Prescriptions
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Featured Articles:
Interested in Serving on a College Committee?
Pharmacy Technicians on the Road to Regulation
Improving care for the elderly
Take a trip back to the beginnings of Pharmacy at The Niagara Apothecary
Focus on Registration
Regular Articles:
Council Report
Did You Know...
Update on Technology
Focus on Error Prevention - Prescription Transfers
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Featured Articles:
Enhancing MedsCheck, improving outcomes
New Electoral Boundaries to come into effect in June
Pharmacy Technicians: Staying on Track
New Summer Experience Course for U of T Students
Interprofessional study of transfer of care
Pharmacy Accreditation Renewals 2010
Best Practices for Dispensing Oral Liquids
Top 20 Continuing Education Topics
Regular Articles:
Update on Technology
Focus on Error Prevention - Millilitres or Milligrams?
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Featured Articles:
Advisory Notices
A Tale of Two Classes
Colleges Collaborate on Medical Directives
NAPRA Unveils Mobility Agreement for Canadian Pharmacists
Pharmacy Practice - Did You Know?
Physicians Required to Print and Sign all EMR-generated Prescriptions
Pharmacists’ Annual renewal Due March 10, 2010
Key Components of Chemotherapy Labelling
2008 Annual Statistics
Reconciliation 101
Preceptors: the key to hands-on learning
Regular Articles:
Update on Technology
Focus on Error Prevention - Understanding prescriber’s intent
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Featured Articles:
Electoral Districts & Members of Council
Committee Appointments 2009/2010
Model Standards of Practice
Quality Assurance Update
Hands-on learning key to co-op students
Pharmacist-physician collaboration key to patient safety
Help! We’ve been robbed
A Summer Student’s Perspective of the College
Regular Articles:
Update on Technology
Focus on Error Prevention - Accurate and Complete Labelling
Featured Articles:
District Meetings 2009
Regulation of Pharmacy Technicians - Progress Report
The Ontario Physician Assistant Initiative
Documenting Dialogue
Elder Abuse
An update on the e-Prescribing project
Partnership in Lung Age Testing & Education Programme
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner - Action Plans
Focus on Error Prevention - DIN Billing Error
Featured Articles:
Prescription Delivery Regulation
Changing Lives with MMT
Understand the Culture in Which You Practise
Coroner's Inquest into Death due to Hyperthermia
Hyperthermia: Are Your Patients at Risk?
An Overview of Ontario's Cosmetic Pesticide Ban
Professional Image Considerations
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention - Tamiflu Oral Suspension
Featured Articles:
Front-end Counselling
Assessing Use of Medical Directives in Community Pharmacies
Health Human Resources – A Priority in Canada
The Niagara Apothecary – History of Our Profession
Legislative Amendments Coming into Effect on June 4th
Update on the Proposed Registration Regulation
Regular Articles:
Inspectors’ Corner – Labelling errors
Focus on Error Prevention - Misinterpretation of Decimals
Featured Articles:
Profile of the Relief Pharmacist
eHealth Ontario
Report of the Geriatric and Long Term Care Review Committee to the Chief Coroner
ISMP - Medication Safety in Long-Term Care
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints - Do Medication Errors Result in a Referral to the Discipline Committee?
Focus on Error Prevention - Ambiguous Prescriptions
Featured Articles:
2009 Pharmacists’ Annual Renewal
CE Coordinators Role Description
Annual Statistics
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention - Pediatric Dosages
Staying Informed about Pharmacy Technician Regulation
Featured Articles:
Electoral Districts & Members of Council
Committee Appointments 2008/2009
Liability Insurance
The MedsCheck Consult Pilot Project
Provincial OpiATE Project
Pharmacy Technicians’ Commitment to Regulation
New Online Pharmacist Annual Renewal Process
A Summer Student’s Experience at OCP
Call for Preceptors
HPRAC Launches Non-physician Prescribers Project
Regular Articles:
ISMP - Medication Incidents Report
Focus on Error Prevention - Pediatric Dosages
Featured Articles:
Launching the CPD Portal
Becoming a Registered Pharmacy Technician
Blueprint for Pharmacy
MedsCheck: A Student’s Perspective
Remembering a Friend: Bob Luke
ISMP - Medication Safety Alert
ISMP - Medication Incidents Report
Seventeenth Annual Geriatric Report
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention - Administering drugs to infants
Featured Articles:
Interchangeability
Pharmacy Practice at Sault Area Hospital
Ontario’s Physician Assistant Initiative
Online Renewal Process
Bridging Education Program
ISMP - Methadone
Pharmacies, Long-Term Care Project Working Together on Common Assessment
Regular Articles:
Advisory Notice - Scope of Practice of Pharmacy
Advisory Notice - Proposed Registration regulations
Focus on Error Prevention - Similarities in Packaging
Featured Articles:
Changes to member annual renewal process
New Electoral Boundries to come into effect June 2010
Proposed Regulations for Issuance and Renewal of a Certificate of Accreditation
Educational Requirements for Pharmacy Technicians
Turning the Heat Down on Patient Anger
Changes that Affect Pharmacists and Pharmacies
Regular Articles:
Call for non-Council Committee Members and Pharmacy Technician Observers
Focus on Error Prevention - Similarity Between Two Product Names
Featured Articles:
Public Education Program takes new steps forward
Canada’s Newest Pharmacy Program
Logged Prescriptions ≠ Refill Prescriptions
Nurse Practitioner is Now a Protected Title
National Pharmacy Technician Competencies
ISMP - Near Miss Identifcation and Reporting
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Securing Your Pharmacy)
Coroner’s Report (Combined Toxic Effects of Methadone and Ethanol)
Focus on Error Prevention (Addition of an Incorrect Diluent)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance: A 10 Year Review
ISMP - Fentanyl Patch
Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
Practice Advisory
Buprenorphine
Regular Articles:
Coroner’s Report (C.Difficile)
Focus on Error Prevention (Patient Unaware of Prescription Changes)
Featured Articles:
Electoral Districts & Members of Council
2007-08 Committee Appointments
Personal Professional Liability Insurance
Medication Review
Medication Safety Assessment Program
Reviewing Health Canada Advisories
Update on Technicians Regulation
ISMP - Methadone
Coroner’s Recommendation
Regular Articles:
Close Up on Complaints (Patient Counselling)
Focus on Error Prevention (Sensitivity to Inactive Ingredients)
Featured Articles:
MedsCheck Program
Methadone Locked Boxes
Update on Technicians Regulation
Informed Consent
Patient Relations Program
SPT - Finding a Preceptor
Online Professional Development
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Unclear Meaning of a Prescription)
Close Up on Complaints (Collaboration Amongst Healthcare Professionals)
Featured Articles:
Personal Professional Liability Insurance
Highlights of Bill 171
ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin (Unexpected Hypoglycemia)
Medical Directives and Delegations
New and Innovative Models of Pharmacy Practice
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close Up on Complaints (Right DIN, Wrong Drug)
Focus on Error Prevention (Changing the Strength of a Medication)
Featured Articles:
Policy on Directives and Delegation
Practice Advisory Sessions
Best Possible Medications History Guidelines
Guidelines for Prescriptions transmitted by fax
Privacy Commissioner’s Message
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Putting Care back into Health)
Inspector’s Corner (Balance Owing & Documentation)
Close up on Complaints (Cognitive Skills)
Featured Articles:
Pharmacists Without Borders
Your Health Matters!
Technician Regulation
Code of Ethics
Methadone Education Programs
Regular Articles:
Submitting CE Programs
Focus on Error Prevention (Calculation Errors)
Inspector’s Corner (Opening a new pharmacy: A checklist)
Featured Articles:
District Meetings
Technician Regulation
Pandemic Planning
Meet your CE Coordinators
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Concern – Re: Sexual Harassment Article)
Close up on Complaints (Verifying Narcotic Prescriptions: A guide to vigilance)
Inspector’s Corner: Maintaining a Professional Workplace Environment)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Incorrect Drugs)
Featured Articles:
2006/2007 Electoral Districts and Members of Council
OCP Council Committee Appointments
A Summer Student’s View of the College
ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin: Transdermal Fentanyl
Celebrating 35 years as Curator of the Niagara Apothecary
Regular Articles:
Coroner’s Report (16th Annual Report of the Geriatric and LTC Review Committee)
Close up on Complaints (A Pharmacist’s Accountability in Response to a Dispensing Error)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Drugs for Teenagers)
Featured Articles:
2006 Public Education Program
Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building at the University of Toronto
District Meetings 2006
Your Health Care – Be Involved
Online Learning
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Preventing and Handling Prescription Forgeries)
Close up on Complaints (“Red Flags”: Dispensing a Sedative to a Child)
Focus on Error Prevention (Unique Oral Liquid Medications Dosages)
Featured Articles:
Proposed Standards for Pharmacists Providing Pharmacy Services to Licensed Long-Term Care Facilities
Moving Forward with Regulating Pharmacy Technicians
Guidelines to Compounding Preparations
Policy for Dispensing Methadone
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Computer Data Entry Errors)
Featured Articles:
U of W School of Pharmacy
Technician Survey
Medication Reconciliation
Secure Destruction of Personal Information
Pharmacies Displaying the Point of Care
Impact of Tool Kit
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (The Complaints Process Unveiled)
Focus on Error Prevention (Product-identifying DIN)
Featured Articles:
A Culture of Continuing Quality Improvement
Quality Assurance
Privacy Obligations in Long Term Health Care Settings
Non Supervision of Pharmacies
Are You Displaying Your Point of Care?
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Dispensing Dosettes: Multiple Medications Require Close Attention)
Letter to the Editor (Discipline: Misrepresentation of Pharmacist/Intern)
Inspector’s Corner (Understanding the Inspection Process: Review of Documentation of Dialogue)
Focus on Error Prevention (Use of facsimile (fax) technology)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance
Challenges and Opportunities for Preceptors
Disclosure of Information for an Emergency
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (A Matter of Professionalism)
Focus on Error Prevention (Computer Technology and medication errors)
Featured Articles:
A New Way of Looking at the Practice Review
Self-Assessment Survey Evaluation
Medication Consultation Services
Infection Control Resource for Pharmacists
A Safety Initiative for Community Pharmacists
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Inappropriate use of fentanyl patches)
Coroner’s Report (The Use of Drugs in the Elderly)
Featured Articles:
The Registered Pharmacy Technician
Doors Open Niagara
Q&A Structured Practical Training
Crystal Meth Advisory
Sexual Harassment in Pharmacies
International Pharmacy Graduate Program
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Pharmacy Privacy Policy and Practices Considered Exemplary)
Letter to the Editor (Safe Medication Practice)
Focus on Error Prevention (Brand Extensions Can Lead to Confusion)
Featured Articles:
Point of Care Public Education Program
Family Health Teams
Evaluation of the Learning Portfolio
Q&A Self-Assessment Survey
The Ontario Health Pandemic Influenza Plan
Improving Patient’s Safety
List of Error-Prone Abbreviations
Summary of Laws
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Preventing Dispensing Errors)
Coroner’s Report (Eating Disorder Case: Hypokalemia/Lithium)
Focus on Error Prevention (Tip caps on hypodermic syringes)
Featured Articles:
The Niagara Apothecary
Your Health Matters
How to Use Emergency Contraception Pills
Update on Regulatory Issues
ISMP: Medication Safety
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Elder Abuse Assessment & Intervention Reference Guide)
Letters to the Editor (OTC Sale – Schedule II Codeine)
Close up on Complaints (Professional Judgement: Dispensing to Self-Prescribing Physicians or Their Families)
Focus on Error Prevention (Confusion Over the Similarity of Drug Names)
Inspector’s Corner (Curbing Diversion: Validity of Prescriptions)
Coroner’s Report (Intravenous injection potassium chloride)
Featured Articles:
Professionals Health Program
New School of Pharmacy at University of Waterloo
OxyContin Abuse and Diversion
MethWatch Program
Displaying the Point of Care Symbol
Q&A Structured Practical Training
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Recognition of Good Work)
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing of an incorrect drug)
Featured Articles:
Proposed Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Technicians
Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Managers
OCP Connects
Professional Health Information Protection Act
Pharmacy Connection Reader’s Survey
Regular Articles:
Have your say (Documenting Schedule II Codeine Sales is Essential)
Featured Articles:
Quality Assurance
Professional Health Information Protection Act
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy Survey
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Dispensing Errors)
Featured Articles:
Personal Health Information Protection Act
Optimizing the Pharmacist’s Role
Self-Perceived Learning Needs and Experiences
14th Annual Geriatric Report
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Promoting a healthy diet and lifestyle)
Focus on Error Prevention (Drug Identification Number (DIN)
Featured Articles:
Emergency Contraception
Board of Inquiry
Professional Health Program
Methadone Maintenance Treatment Prescriptions
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Incorrect dispensing of the drug folic acid)
Featured Articles:
Points of Care in Ontario
Regular Articles:
Close up on Complaints (Non-Supervision of a Pharmacy: Responsibilities of a Designated Manager)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpretation of Decimal Point)
Featured Articles:
Making Strides in Increasing Public Awareness
Tips on Displaying the Point of Care Symbol
Recommendation on Drug Use in the Elderly
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Safe Disposal of Medication)
Focus on Error Prevention (Sound-alike Look-alike Drugs)
Featured Articles:
Documentation Guidelines for Pharmacists 2004
Natural Health Product Regulations
International Pharmacy Graduate Showcase
Changes to Quality Assurance
Certified Pharmacy Technician Exams
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Increased Forgeries Require Greater Diligence)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpretation of the prescriber's intent)
Featured Articles:
Getting Ready for Privacy Legislation
Reinstatement Proceedings
Points of Care in Ontario
Regular Articles:
Letter to the Editor (Patient’s Appreciation - Complaints Committee Decision)
Inspector’s Corner (Conducting Narcotic Inventories and Reconciliations)
Close up on Complaints (Possible Interactions with Birth Control Pills: Making your Patient Aware)
Focus on Error Prevention (Misinterpreting Written Prescriptions)
Featured Articles:
Pharmacy Technician Competency Profile
Guidelines for Incapacity
Moving From Part B to Part A of the Registrar
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Dialogue for Schedule II Products)
Inspector’s Corner (Action Plan’s)
Featured Articles:
Precursors to Illicit Drugs
Precursors Control Regulations Chart
Quebec Ontario Memorandum of Understanding
Point of Care
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (The Inspection Process)
Close up on Complaints (Altering Third Party Payor Information: Acting Out of the SOP’s Role)
Coroner’s Report (Treatment for Depression – Pregnant women - Welfare)
Focus on Error Prevention (Counselling Patients on Prescription Renewals/Changes)
Featured Articles:
Schedule II Drugs
Demistifying the Practice Review
Self-Perceived Learning Needs and Experiences
Point of Care
Regular Articles:
Inspector’s Corner (Drug Schedules)
Close up on Complaints (…A Pharmacist Makes a Choice)
Coroner’s Report (Hydromorphone leading to death)
Focus on Error Prevention (Mislabelling Prescription Vials)
Featured Articles:
Seeking Best Practices
Pharmacists Have Heart…
Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Mandatory Reporting
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Illegible Latin Abbreviations)
Have your say (Documenting Patient Counselling)
Featured Articles:
Coming Soon…
New Member-Focused IT System
Pharmacy Visits & Inspections
Learning Portfolio
Geriatric & Long-Term Care Report
Regular Articles:
Focus on Error Prevention (Using More than One Stock Bottle)
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