EMPOWER Episode 5 Global Pharmacy Practice Comparisons of USA versus Canada

In this episode of what will hopefully become a series covering topics related to global pharmacy practice, we have featured Mark McIntyre, an EM pharmacist who practices at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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EMPOWER Episode 5 – Global Pharmacy Practice: Comparisons of USA versus Canada

Show Notes:

Time
Topic
0:00-0:26
Musical Introduction
0:26-3:09
Introduction to episode featuring Mark McIntyre, PharmD
3:10
Culture of practice in Canada
How do you provide care to this population?
5:35
Everything in healthcare Canada is a cost center
Quality, value, waste
6:14
How to justify/expand service
6:25
Health Quality Ontario
8:22
Challenges of EM pharmacy in Canada
9:50
Discussion of AJHP commentary regarding EM pharmacy practice and medication reconciliation:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25465590
12:20
Priority conditions handled in Canadian ED
14:30
Differences in patient-pharmacy interactions
15:00
Transitions of Care
15:54
Home at Last Program in Ontario
16:39
Opioids
17:20
Clustering of opioids prescriptions and association with mortality: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21402956
18:18
Hydromorphone
19:37
Opioid prescription database
21:18
Challenges of long wait times and boarded patients in the ED
23:27
Rapid Assessment Zones (RAZ) in the ED
23:55
Express admit unit (EAU) in the ED
25:07
Presence of EM pharmacy practice in Canada
27:49
EM pharmacists in USA
29:40
Passage of ACEP resolution 44 noticed in Canada
30:12
How to EM physicians view EM pharmacists
31:45
Tipping point for EM pharmacy
32:35
Pharmacy education in Canada
34:13
Experiential rotations
37:33
Future directions of research and scholarly activity for EM pharmacists
38:42
Rational use of drugs in the ED
39:07
Flow
of a multidisciplinary team in the ED and psychology of decision making and team dynamics
40:00
Patient satisfaction and perceptions in the ED
42:23
Transition from USA to Canada
45:23
Pharmacists on the code team
48:47
Visibility of pharmacy as a profession in Canada
54:38
History: “Florence Nightingale” of pharmacy
56:56
Musical outroduction

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