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Antimicrobial stewardship for community pharmacy teams

• This module is intended to substantiate pharmacists’ knowledge on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS).
• This module enhances the role of community pharmacy teams in tackling AMR and enables them to explain why AMR is a threat to patient safety and public and global health.
• It is a refresher on common self-limiting infections, their usual duration, and how to best advise customers.

Source: Oxford Academic

Practicing during a pandemic: The role of a new pharmacy practitioner

• When transitioning from pharmacy resident to clinical pharmacist specialist, there are many challenges and uncertainties that one might face.
• From answering complex clinical and operational questions to finding your place on the interdisciplinary care team
• While there is published literature that describes the role of the pharmacist in a pandemic, it is mainly limited to outpatient pharmacy practice
• The purpose of this article is to describe the unique roles that new practitioners can serve on a disaster response team.

Source: Oxford Academic

Medication synchronization service for patients with multiple myeloma within a health system–based specialty pharmacy

• Multipharmacy use is often associated with reduced medication adherence and increased risk of adverse drug events.
• One proposed solution to multipharmacy use is the implementation of a medication synchronization service in which all of a patient’s medications are dispensed at the same time each month to avoid multiple trips to multiple pharmacies.
• Medication synchronization improves medication adherence, persistence, and identification of drug therapy problems

Source: Oxford Academic

ASHP Policy Week 2020 tackles vital issues in pharmacy

• Members of ASHP’s 5 policy-recommending councils and the Council of Affiliate Relations gathered virtually in September to help shape pharmacy practice and press Congress to support the profession’s role on the patient care team.
• About 100 ASHP members, including 40 leaders from affiliated state societies, participated in the first-ever fully virtual ASHP Policy Week.
• In addition to COVID-19, many of ASHP members are also dealing with the devastation caused by wildfires and hurricanes, while also supporting family members and children.

Source: Oxford Academic

Community pharmacy-led vaccination sites to start administering COVID-19 vaccines from 11 January 2021

• COVID-19 vaccination sites led by community pharmacies will start administering vaccines to patients in England from the week beginning 11 January 2021, NHS England has said.
• Boots plans to open three vaccination sites as part of the community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination programme.
• According to the NHS, community pharmacy contractors will receive £8m “to cover reasonable additional costs (over and above the usual fee structures) associated with the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme”.

Source: Pharmaceutical Journal

Antibiotic irrigation solutions for prevention of surgical site infections: A call to action

• On January 31, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the voluntary withdrawal of bacitracin for injection from the market after the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee deemed that the risks of its labeled use, such as nephrotoxicity and anaphylactic reactions, outweigh any potential benefits.
• While bacitracin for injection has only received FDA approval to treat pneumonia and empyema in infants caused by staphylococci shown to be susceptible to the drug, it has mostly been used off-label for the intraoperative irrigation of surgical wounds to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs).

Source: Oxford Academic

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