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: |
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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