In this week’s episode, we will be discussing the latest COVID-19 vaccine updates and what researchers still need to know with Michael Haydock, senior director of cardiovascular, metabolic, and infectious diseases content at Informa Pharma Intelligence. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Podcasts

The Pharmacy Times® Pharmacy Focus podcast provides the latest industry news and information, thought-leader insights, clinical updates, patient counseling tools, and innovative solutions for the everyday practice and business of pharmacy.

Pharmacy Focus Episode 17: Keeping Up with the COVID-19 Vaccine

In this week's episode, we will be discussing the surge of insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as coronasomnia, with Thomas So, manager of the Meducation Group at First Databank. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

The Pharmacy Times® Pharmacy Focus podcast provides the latest industry news and information, thought-leader insights, clinical updates, patient counseling tools, and innovative solutions for the everyday practice and business of pharmacy. 

Pharmacy Focus Episode 16: Coronasomnia: The Unspoken Adverse Effect of the Pandemic

In this week’s episode, we will be discussing the steps community pharmacies can take to begin implementing COVID-19 testing with Nancy Lyons, chief pharmacist for McKesson Health Mart. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 15: Community Pharmacists and COVID-19 Testing

In this week’s episode, we will be discussing the neurological impacts that COVID-19 has on the brain with Daniel Wilson, president of Western University Health Sciences and former president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 14: The Neurological Impact of COVID-19

In this week's Thanksgiving themed episode, we will be taking the time to thank every pharmacist on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic for their hard work during these unprecedented times. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 13: Did You Thank Your Pharmacist This Thanksgiving?

In this week’s episode, we will be discussing how COVID-19 has affected cancer care with David Hughes, clinical pharmacy specialist in hematology and oncology at Boston Medical Center, and Radhika Jhaveri, clinical manager at Boston Medical Center who oversees infusion-based chemotherapy. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 12: Cancer Care and COVID-19

In this week’s episode, we will be discussing what students can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic with Brooke Griffin, founder of 21st Century PharmD. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 11: Dealing With a Pandemic in Pharmacy School

The year 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, but especially for healthcare workers on the front lines. Due to this, it’s more important now than ever, that pharmacy technicians practice at the very top of their license. While boards of pharmacy have traditionally limited pharmacy technician practice from performing such tasks like final product verification, administering immunizations to patients, or performing CLIA-waived point of care testing, more and more states are undergoing the process of reviewing, discussing, and in some cases, changing their rules to permit properly trained technicians to perform these and other tasks. To further seize on this trend, NHA has spearheaded an initiative to bring together representatives from some of the biggest pharmacy organizations in the industry. 

The initiative, The Coalition for the Advancement of Pharmacy Technician Practice, aims to work together to stay up to date with current state boards of pharmacy that are discussing this very important topic, and to engage other state boards of pharmacy to consider broadening pharmacy technician scope of practice. By bringing together retail pharmacy  giants like Albertsons Companies, Walmart, Kroger and Walgreens, along with state pharmacy associations, pharmacy academicians, and organizations such as the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council, the coalition’s collective voice and singular mission is to further expedite the spread of states allowing pharmacy technicians to do more.  This support from the industry will be key to continuing to elevate the pharmacy profession across the nation.

In this episode, OnScript brings together representatives from some of the coalition’s partnering organizations to discuss the importance of expanding pharmacy technician roles and the positive impact that has been realized in those states that have already expanded pharmacy technician practice. It is fitting and timely that this discussion happen on Pharmacy Technician’s Day to show pharmacy technicians that the industry recognizes the important role they play in all pharmacies and how critical it is to advocate and be an additional voice for the technician workforce, and also pass on the gratitude that each of these organizations have for the work technicians are doing everyday. You don’t want to miss this episode! 

Click to read full transcript from the National Healthcareer Association

Pharmacy Technician’s Day shows pharmacy technicians that the industry recognizes the important role they play in all pharmacies.

Pharmacy Tech Day: Advancing Pharmacy Technician Practice

In this week’s episode, we will be discussing how to handle the financial concerns rooted from the COVID-19 pandemic with Tim Ulbrich, co-founder and CEO of Your Financial Pharmacist. If you would like to nominate a pharmacist or pharmacy staff member as a Pharmacy Hero, email AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

Pharmacy Focus Episode 10: Financial Concerns and COVID-19

In this week’s bonus episode, we will be celebrating Women Pharmacist Day and discussing the significant gains of women in their pharmacy careers with Suzy Soliman, Maggie Ryman, Lisa King, Brooke Griffin, Kate Gainer, and Lisa Garrelts Maclean. Email your pharmacy hero nomination to AAntrim@pharmacytimes.com!

*Note: The correct name is Linda Garrelts Maclean, which does not reflect what she is addressed as in the original recording.