Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JULY 19, 2022

While job searching, it is important to note that all hospitals have different educational requirements for NPs, therefore, this post is documenting the “typical” jobs for nurse practitioners. Inpatient and Outpatient Consult Services. Emergency Medicine. Nothing defines the term “acute” like emergency medicine (EM).

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Proxsys Rx

DECEMBER 22, 2023

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 25, 2024

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

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Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 16, 2025

The primary safety outcome was the occurrence of a thrombotic event during their hospital stay. The definition of good or excellent hemostasis was based on the Sarode criteria (Table 3 of this document ) which has been used in most other studies looking at the effectiveness of andexanet or PCCs.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The benefits offered by advanced level practitioners to practice is well documented as well. The study also found, “Physician-owned practices earned about $100,749 more after operating expenses per physician and hospital-owned practices earned $131,770 more.” between 2012 and 2015. or lower.”

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In about one-fifth of the aPTTs results there was documented interference by the lab. Many hospitals have moved to anti-Xa based monitoring for heparin infusions which would not be affected however it is surprising that such an interference would be detected between these two medications so long after they began being regularly used together.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While supplies are supposed to be reserved and prioritized for these populations during the shortage, there is very real chance hospitals could run out and then have a patient that requires penicillin G benzathine present for treatment. There are several resources available to help if this scenario arises during the shortage.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

While supplies are supposed to be reserved and prioritized for these populations during the shortage, there is very real chance hospitals could run out and then have a patient that requires penicillin G benzathine present for treatment. There are several resources available to help if this scenario arises during the shortage.

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RX Note

JUNE 21, 2023

History The emergence of clinical pharmacy as a form of professional practice has been attributed to the poor medicines control systems that existed in hospitals during the early 1960. Although provoked by similar hospital-associated problems, the nature of the professional response differed between the USA and the UK.

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Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The exception regarding haloperidol and lorazepam is not generalizable as elsewhere in the same document the authors state: Do not give with or within 1 hour of any BZD given risk for respiratory suppresion The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest.

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Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 5, 2022

The dosing guidelines set by the hospital for peripheral vasopressor use in ICU patients were as follows: Norepinephrine at a dose of 16 mcg/min or less Phenylephrine at a dose of 200 mcg/min or less Vasopressin at a dose of 0.04 units/min or less Epinephrine at a dose of 0.1 units/min or less Epinephrine at a dose of 0.1 mcg/kg/min.

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Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This is a significant change to everyday practice, and implementing it at an individual hospital level will require the consensus of all pharmacists involved to keep renal dose adjustment decisions consistent. To get immediate access go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this episode, I’ll discuss one hospital’s evolution of the U-500 insulin use process. Recently, more tools have become available to facilitate the safe and error-free use of U-500, and one hospital has published the evolution of their insulin U-500 use process in the American Journal of Health System Pharmacy.

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Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 27, 2022

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In about one-fifth of the aPTTs results there was documented interference by the lab. Many hospitals have moved to anti-Xa based monitoring for heparin infusions which would not be affected however it is surprising that such an interference would be detected between these two medications so long after they began being regularly used together.

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Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medical record, or that you don’t document your interventions. Current monthly members of the Hospital Pharmacy Academy can also access this discount by going to their member profile page at pharmacyjoe.com/profile.

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Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher If you are a clinical pharmacist working in a hospital, the chances are that you have an office or desk to call home in the central pharmacy.

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Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher If you are a clinical pharmacist working in a hospital, the chances are that you have an office or desk to call home in the central pharmacy.

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Integra X Files

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Medicare pays much better but covers fewer residents and only for short periods of time, usually following inpatient hospitalization. The document for calculating the score is derived from the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Drugs are included in this payment and the drug payment component is found in the NTA calculation.

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ID Stewardship

APRIL 13, 2023

BCPS, BCIDP Article Posted 14 April 2023 In 2014 CDC released the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (Core Elements) to help hospitals increase infection cure rates while reducing treatment failures, C. difficile infection, adverse effects, antibiotic resistance, hospital costs, and hospital length of stay.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today, at an outpatient practice or in an inpatient hospital, a healthcare provider is asking themselves: Can we do this differently or better? The team’s analysis yielded this causal fact: At Saint Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, typical pre-op hospital stays often exceeded two or more days.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

physicians services or inpatient hospitals services) and for which Medicaid payment may be made as part of payment for the service “and not as direct reimbursement for the drug.” Remarkably, manufacturers may not dispute a CMS notification. 1396r-8(k)(3).

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RX Note

JUNE 3, 2023

Explain how to use Blood pressure machine Glucometer Pulse oximetry Incentive spirometer What are the treatment targets for Blood pressure Glucose levels (FBG and HbA1c) Lipid profile Uric acid Public Hospital Clinical Pharmacokinetic Services Explain ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) used in drug analysis.

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Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By incorporating these measures into both inpatient and outpatient quality reporting, CMS is promoting a more equitable health care system and ensuring that interventions are targeted to reduce health disparities. 1 This expansion will enable health care providers to identify at-risk populations and develop targeted interventions.

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RX Note

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

insulins, inhalers, GTN, transdermal patches, etc.)

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HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents Community Pharmacies Labelling Chemotherapy 58

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 6, 2025

Both guidance documents recommend data management practices for collecting data for use in developing, tuning, and testing an artificial intelligence model and making changes to said model. inpatient hospital, out-patient clinic), date range for the data, and location of the data collection sites (e.g., data acquisition device).

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Ramblings of a pharmacist

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Hospitals and health systems maintain formularies of products that they will stock in the hospital pharmacy and administer to inpatients. For a hospital, it’s a relatively simple question - does this strategy reduce how much money the hospital spends on drugs.

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