Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training from a pharmacist’s point of view on code blue and rapid response participation, including how to predict a patient’s medication needs in these emergency scenarios, along with over 200 practical trainings and other resources to help in your practice.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 30, 2025

The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The topic in this episode is inspired by an in-depth training available to members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Hospitals 59

Hospitals Inpatient 59

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. Episode 903: Does the Number of Learners Trained Per Year Influence the Chances of an Inpatient Pharmacist Experiencing Burning Out?

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Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. The majority of survey participants worked in ambulatory care, with about one-fourth working an inpatient role and one-seventh working an infrastructure role.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 9, 2025

The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 13, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharma cists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– Then develop your own style and, if possible, tailor it to your resident’s personality.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 18, 2021

Episode 627: Top 100 Drug Interactions Book Review 2021 Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Most third-party drug interaction services or references don’t help with determining the clinical significance of a given drug interaction. There was no edition published in 2020, so I was excited to see one that came out in 2021.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the impact of giving epinephrine before defibrillation to in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) patients with shockable rhythms. The main outcome examined epinephrine administration before first defibrillation and its association with hospital-level rates of risk-adjusted survival.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Inpatient 98

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Unfortunately the ability to do so without using a send-out laboratory is not widespread among hospitals. To get access to my free download area with 20 different resources to help hospital pharmacists go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Treatment also was responsible for a lower length of hospital stay when compared to control. To get access to my free download area with 20 different resources to help hospital pharmacists go to pharmacyjoe.com/free. The relative risk in favor of treatment was 0.56.

Hospitals 97

Hospitals Inpatient Immunization Immunity 97

RX Note

AUGUST 4, 2023

What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people. What to do if I did not know the answer to questions from patients or doctors?

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient Community Pharmacies Dosage 52

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

My director of pharmacy and chief of nephrology at my hospital connected me with opportunities to review articles in the past. Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to preceptor development resources such as the comprehensive training on Understanding and Fulfilling ASHP Accreditation Requirements for Residency Preceptors.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 7, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss torsemide vs furosemide for symptoms and quality of life among patients hospitalized for heart failure. Episode 824: Torsemide vs Furosemide – Which Is Better For Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure? appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

Hospitals 59

Hospitals Inpatient Labelling 59

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 8, 2025

In this episode, I’ll discuss the lowest effective dose of IV or IM haloperidol for elderly hospitalized patients with agitation. Secondary outcomes were the hospital length of stay, utilization of restraints, and discharge outcomes (to a facility when admitted from home) between dosage groups.

Hospitals 105

Hospitals Inpatient Dosage 105

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The study was done to evaluate the safety of a hospital policy change that allowed the administration of 3% sodium chloride via 16- to 20-gauge peripheral IVs to a maximum infusion rate of 50 mL/hr in patients without central venous access. The most common electrolyte abnormalities were hyperchloremia in 49.3% and hypokalemia in 46.9%

Hospitals 97

Hospitals Inpatient 97

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 29, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss an article about timing of amiodarone for out-of-hospital, shock-refractory cardiac arrest. In the early group, patients who received amiodarone has statistically signficantly higher rates of survival to hospital admission, survival to discharge, and functional survival when compared to placebo.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 15, 2023

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training from a pharmacist’s point of view on using dexmedetomidine in critical care. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Hospitals 107

Hospitals Inpatient 107

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this episode, I’ll discuss what an inpatient pharmacist needs to know about the outpatient CDC opioid guidelines. This means that you can’t simply use one style of opioid dosing while the patient is in the hospital and instantly change to something else when the patient goes home.

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Inpatient Dosage Hospitals 40

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training on the use of high-dose insulin therapy, as well as clinical pearls related to using glucagon, all from a pharmacist’s point of view. This is in addition to hundreds of other resources to help in your practice.

Hospitals 97

Hospitals Inpatient 97

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 26, 2025

To get access to my free download area with 20 different resources to help hospital pharmacists in their practice go to pharmacyjoe.com/free. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training from a pharmacist’s point of view on caring for a patient with salicylate toxicity. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Hospitals 98

Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 2, 2023

Episode 840: A Rare Disease Resource Every Hospital Pharmacist Should Know About Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher There exists a large number of rare diseases that any given hospital pharmacist might encounter once in their practice, if at all.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 2, 2023

Episode 840: A Rare Disease Resource Every Hospital Pharmacist Should Know About Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher There exists a large number of rare diseases that any given hospital pharmacist might encounter once in their practice, if at all.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The database used in the analysis draws from over 600 US hospitals. The primary outcome focused on the volume of resuscitative IV fluid administered before the end of hospital day 1 and mortality. The authors observed a 2.5%

Hospitals 91

Hospitals Inpatient 91

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 28, 2024

Episode 891: The Half-Dose Alteplase Study You’ve Always Wanted Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Members of the Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to trainings on how to run a journal club, and biostatistics for journal club in addition to hundreds of other trainings to help you in your practice.

Hospitals 96

Hospitals Inpatient 96

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 19, 2024

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training on dealing with extravasation due to vasopressors and other medications from a pharmacist’s point of view, along with hundreds of other resources to help in your practice. To get immediate access, go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Hospitals 98

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

To get access to my free download area with 20 different resources to help hospital pharmacists go to pharmacyjoe.com/free. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training on the treatment of anaphylaxis from a pharmacist’s point of view. Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training on the treatment of anaphylaxis from a pharmacist’s point of view. To get immediate access, go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Hospitals 75

Hospitals Inpatient 75

Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 16, 2023

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to my Airway Pharmacology Masterclass, where I cover paralytic and sedative choices for the 6 different types of airway scenarios, as well as how to anticipate and deal with complications related to intubation.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Inpatient Labelling 98

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 12, 2025

The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest. If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Hospitals 97

Hospitals Inpatient 97

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 19, 2023

Episode 810: Sugammadex To Reduce Postoperative Myasthenic Crisis After Thymectomy Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher A group of authors in Japan recently analyzed the association between the use of sugammadex and postoperative myasthenic crisis in patients with myasthenia gravis using a national inpatient database.

Inpatient 59

Inpatient Hospitals 59

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 10, 2024

The American College of Emergency Medicine recently published a clinical policy focused on the following critical question: Is there a superior parenteral medication or combination of medications for the acute management of adult out-of-hospital or emergency department patients with severe agitation?

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Inpatient 98

Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 23, 2024

Expanding the Acute Stroke Thrombolysis Window to 24 Hours “ The editorialist cautions that the results of this trial need to be replicated in other populations, and for real-world implementation of the protocol used in this study, hospitals would need perfusion-imaging capability. hours from time last know well?

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Hospitals 98

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Members of my Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to practical training from a pharmacist’s point of view on airway pharmacology, code blue and rapid response participation, along with over 200 practical trainings and other resources to help in your practice. To get immediate access, go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Hospitals 98

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the continuation of newly prescribed gabapentin for acute pain management after hospital discharge. A group of authors recently published a retrospective cohort study characterizing the use of newly prescribed gabapentin in hospital inpatients. Episode 961: Is that gabapentin just temporary?

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals 52

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 24, 2024

Members of the Hospital Pharmacy Academy have access to trainings on how to run a journal club, and biostatistics for journal club in addition to hundreds of other trainings to help you in your practice. To get immediate access go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Hospitals 98