News tagged collaborative-practice

USP Prescription Container Labeling Chapter is Now the Official Standard

Topics: Prescription label

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter <17> Prescription Container Labeling, published in the USP 36–NF 31, became an official standard on May 1, 2013.

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Pharmacist Prescribing: Is Collaborative Practice a Path of the Future?

Topics: Pharmacists, Prescribing authority, and Collaborative practice

As policymakers and other stakeholders continue debating how to best balance affordable health care and patient access, they are increasingly looking to expand the role pharmacists play in patient care. Numerous factors, including rising health care costs, a longer-living population,...

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Oklahoma News: Board Committees Formed

Topics: Collaborative practice and Long term care facility

Published in the July 2009 Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Committees on remote order entry, collaborative drug therapy, and long-term care emergency boxes have been established to promulgate rules that will be submitted to the Board for consideration later...

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Vermont News: New Law Allows Emergency Contraception Collaborative Practice to Begin

Topics: Collaborative practice and Emergency contraception

Published in the September 2007 Vermont Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Vermont law, 26 Vermont Statutes Annotated (VSA) §§2078 & 2079 (Act 101) allows pharmacists who have taken a Pharmacy Board-approved training program to enter into a collab¬orative practice agreement with...

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