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When to Say No: Three Signs a Pharmacy Candidate Won't Be a Good Fit

Hiring the right pharmacy team member is crucial to maintaining a safe, efficient, and positive work environment. While resumes and interviews can highlight a candidate’s strengths, they can also reveal warning signs that suggest the person may not be the right fit.

Is It Possible to Find a Remote Job in Pharmacy?

Remote work has increasingly become a vital aspect of the pharmacy profession, especially as technology continues to transform the healthcare landscape. Traditionally, pharmacy work was associated with brick-and-mortar settings such as community or hospital pharmacies.

Effective Communication Methods Management Should Demonstrate

Effective communication is a cornerstone for pharmacy managers in creating a collaborative work environment, ensuring efficiency, and providing excellent patient care. A range of techniques can be used to achieve clear, concise, and supportive communication within the pharmacy team.

Should You Opt for a Hospital Role Over Retail Pharmacy Work?

Pharmacists play a critical role in healthcare, but the nature of their work varies significantly between hospital and retail settings. Both environments require expertise in medication management, patient care, and regulatory compliance, but the day-to-day responsibilities, patient interactions, and challenges differ.

Pharmacy Staffing Trend Predictions for 2025

The pharmacy profession is evolving rapidly, driven by advancements in technology, changing healthcare delivery models, and changing patient needs. In 2025, several staffing trends are likely to reshape the field, impacting the roles, responsibilities, and demand for pharmacy professionals.

Five Must-Watch, Listen, and Read Resources for Pharmacy Professionals

Podcasts are a fantastic way for pharmacists to stay informed, gain inspiration, and connect with the broader healthcare community. Here are three must-watch podcasts tailored for pharmacists.

How to Navigate Language Barriers in Pharmacy Settings

In a pharmacy setting, where a clear understanding of medications, dosages, and instructions is vital, miscommunication due to language differences can lead to dangerous mistakes. To overcome these barriers, pharmacists and pharmacy staff need to use various strategies to ensure patients fully comprehend their medications and instructions.

Hitting a Career Plateau? How to Push Forward and Make Waves

Hitting a career plateau can be frustrating, but it’s not uncommon in any profession, including pharmacy. Whether you feel stagnant in your current role, unmotivated, or simply ready for new challenges, the good news is that a plateau doesn’t have to be permanent.

Bad Hires: What Are They Really Costing You?

Hiring the wrong candidate can have significant hidden costs for an organization, affecting not just financial resources but also productivity, morale, and overall pharmacy performance.

Navigating Pharmacy Certification Programs: Which Ones Are Right for You?

Certifications for pharmacists have become increasingly important in enhancing career opportunities, showcasing expertise, and meeting the changing needs of healthcare. Here are some of the prominent certifications available and how they can benefit pharmacists’ careers.

Addressing a Skills Gap in Your Pharmacy Team

Addressing skills gaps among a pharmacy team is essential to maintaining high standards of patient care and operational efficiency. Several strategies can help in effectively managing these gaps, including targeted recruitment, ongoing training and development, and fostering a supportive work environment.

Exploring Pharmacy Residency Programs: Tips for Success

A pharmacy residency program is an intensive postgraduate training program designed to provide pharmacists with advanced clinical knowledge and skills in a specialized area of pharmacy practice. To be successful in a pharmacy residency program, pharmacists should have a strong foundation in pharmacy practice and a passion for patient care. Here are some tips for success.

Do You Have Adequate Pharmacy Staffing Coverage This Summer?

Ensuring adequate pharmacy staffing during the summer months requires careful planning and steps to meet increased demand and handle potential staffing challenges. Here are some strategies to help you maintain staffing levels.

Negotiating a Job Offer? Do’s and Don’ts to Consider in 2024

Negotiating a job offer is a pivotal moment in a person’s career, where the right approach can lead to favorable outcomes and long-term satisfaction. However, it’s crucial to navigate this process using tact and a strategic approach.

Building a Diverse Pharmacy Team: Why Inclusion Matters

The importance of inclusion in a pharmacy team cannot be overstated because it brings together diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that enrich the team’s capabilities and effectiveness.

Should You Take a Gap Year After Pharmacy School?

Deciding whether to take a gap year after completing pharmacy school is a big step that requires careful thought and evaluation of personal and professional goals. While there are both advantages and disadvantages to taking a gap year, the decision ultimately depends on individual circumstances and priorities.

Thoughtful Leadership Resolutions Worth Adopting in the New Year

As a pharmacy manager, setting resolutions for leadership is a strategic approach to fostering a positive and productive work environment. Here are essential leadership resolutions that you can make in the new year to guide you toward professional growth and team success.

Pharmacy Staffing Ratios: Balancing Workload and Quality of Care

Striking the right balance between workloads and ensuring high-quality care is a constant challenge for pharmacy managers and administrators. Pharmaceutical services require a well-managed and adequately staffed workforce to meet the demands of a diverse patient population.

The Value of Hiring Military Veterans in Your Pharmacy

Hiring veterans for your pharmacy can bring substantial benefits, both for the business and the community it serves. Veterans possess a range of skills, experiences, and character traits that make them valuable assets to any pharmacy operation.

How to Manage Disputes Among Your Pharmacy Team

Like any group of professionals working closely together, disputes and conflicts can arise. To maintain a harmonious and productive pharmacy team, it is important to address and manage these disputes.

Interview Questions to Ask When Determining a Pharmacist’s Ethics

When interviewing a pharmacist for a job, assessing their ethical values and principles is crucial because ethical decision-making is essential in the field of pharmacy. Here are key questions to consider during the interview process to determine a pharmacist’s ethics.

How to Build an Effective Mentorship Program Within Your Organization

A well-designed mentor program can contribute to an organization’s success by fostering professional growth, increasing employee satisfaction, and enhancing overall productivity. Mentorship initiatives can create a positive work environment where knowledge and skills are shared, leading to a more engaged and capable workforce.

How to Attract Recent PharmD Graduates

PharmD graduates have in-depth knowledge of medications, patient care, and healthcare management, making them valuable assets in a variety of healthcare settings. Here are some key strategies to consider when aiming to attract PharmD graduates to your organization.

Overcoming Language Barriers in Pharmacy

Effective communication between pharmacists and patients is crucial for accurate medication dispensing, understanding medication instructions, and addressing any concerns or questions. Here are some strategies to overcome language barriers in pharmacy.

What Is Pharmacogenomics and How Will It Impact the Industry?

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how a person’s unique genetic makeup affects their response to drugs. It is an emerging field that uses genomics and bioinformatics to develop personalized drug therapies.

What is the Impact of Medication Therapy Management in the Pharmacy?

Medication therapy management (MTM) is a comprehensive approach to ensuring that patients are receiving the best possible care for their medication-related needs.

How Wearable Devices Are Impacting Patient Health Care in 2023

Wearable devices are having a significant impact on healthcare, revolutionizing how people monitor and manage their health.

Is Your Organization in EPCS Compliance?

To comply with the electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) law, healthcare providers and pharmacies must have in place certain technical, physical, and administrative safeguards.

Effective Pharmacy Management Tips

Check out these effective pharmacy management tips!

How to Deal With The Impact of Inflation on Pharmacies

In order to combat inflation, pharmacies need to increase their efficiency and look for ways to cut costs. Here are some ways to do that!

What Role Do Pharmacists Play in Educating Prescribers?

Pharmacists have an important role to play in educating physicians!

How to Disrupt the Pharmaceutical Industry!

There are several large-scale trends in medicine and healthcare technology that are changing the healthcare landscape, with the potential to significantly disrupt the pharmaceutical industry in the coming years.

Important Pharmacy Leadership Skills You Should Have

In this issue:
-Important Pharmacy Leadership Skills You Should Have
-3 Reasons Why Regular Process Audits in Your Pharmacy are Critical

Promote Professional Growth and Development In Your Pharmacy!

In this issue:
-Ways to Promote Professional Growth and Development In Your Pharmacy
-Easiest Ways to Create a Positive Work Environment For Your Employees

Identify Strong Pharmacy Technicians with These Tips!

In this issue:
-Identifying a Strong Pharmacy Technician
-Does Your Pharmacy Culture Attract and Retain New Pharmacists?

Find Out How Telehealth Looks Today and Where It's Going in the Future!

In this issue:
-How Telehealth Looks Today and Where It’s Going in the Future
-How Inflation is Impacting Prescription Drug Costs

How can you attract new pharmacy graduates to your workplace?

Good pharmacy technicians are in high demand. If you need to hire one, how can you go about attracting qualified candidates for your pharmacy or healthcare organization? Here are a few tips.

Secrets to Finding (and Hiring!) the Right Pharmacists 

You cannot discount experience when looking at job candidates, but that may not be the most crucial factor. Here are a few other traits that some pharmacy owners prioritize when looking for new people.

These Technologies Can Reinvent Your Pharmacy Experience!

Clinical technologies will help pharmacies produce better outcomes for their patients. On the financial side, these new technologies will improve workflow and make pharmacy operations more efficient, allowing pharmacists to spend more time with patients. Here are some of these new technologies.

The Benefits of eCare in a Pharmacy Workplace

eCare plans are an important way for pharmacists to monitor the progress of patients under their care. These plans provide patient-centered care that allows for better collaboration, communication, and documentation among health care professionals.

Is Compounding Worth Adding To Your Pharmacy?

If you own a pharmacy, you may be considering whether it’s worth adding compounding to the services you offer. Here are a few of the advantages and disadvantages of compounding.

How to find top talent this summer!

In these times, recruiting effectively is essential. Here are a few tips to help your healthcare organization find the talent it needs.

Is your pharmacy team diverse and inclusive?

Many companies and healthcare organizations are striving to increase the diversity of their workforce. They are doing this because having an inclusive workforce has several benefits. Here are a few.

Is there a better way to evaluate job seekers?

Interviews naturally are a way hiring managers get a more complete picture of the job candidate. Here are some ways hiring managers can go beyond the resume to learn more about a person and better evaluate them.

Here's how you can help your pharmacy team!

To help your pharmacy team with their career development, you should encourage them to join professional organizations, network, and find a mentor. Here's how to help your team of pharmacists expand their careers.

What will hiring for the pharmaceutical industry look like?

With the pandemic, the job outlook for pharmacy workers across a range of jobs has improved a good deal for this year and most likely into next year.

These solutions could help your pharmacy team!

Pharmacy management systems help pharmacists do their jobs more effectively and expand their roles as healthcare providers.

Help your pharmacy team stress less.

Pharmacists and their staff are under significant stress these days, more than in the past. Workloads are heavier. There is more paperwork and not enough people.

You need a full team of pharmacists right now!

Pharmacies need to be prepared for the upcoming flu season and make sure they have enough staff to handle the increased demand for flu vaccinations that is expected this year.

Is Protective Gear Enough for Healthcare Workers?

According to research, even with the use of protective equipment, frontline healthcare workers have a three times greater chance of contracting COVID-19 than the general population. The study of healthcare workers and protective equipment looked at almost 100,000 frontline personnel in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Do We Have a Problem with Asymptomatic Healthcare Workers?

A recent survey of healthcare workers tested for COVID-19 has produced some eye-opening results. Almost half of those who tested positive for the disease had no symptoms.

What's on the horizon for pharmacies?

Recent changes in FDA guidelines may lead to cheaper versions of insulin, making it more affordable for the 30 million Americans who have diabetes.

What is a pharmacist's role in drug repurposing?

Drug repurposing. It’s something pharmacists are beginning to take a hard look at and advocate for because of the advantages it offers in bringing a drug to market for a particular indication more quickly and cheaply.

How is your company adapting to remote healthcare?

Technology is making significant changes in the delivery of healthcare, and it has also opened the healthcare industry to new players from other sectors of the economy.

Looking for ways to help?

Phrases like shelter in place, and social distancing have become part of everyone’s vocabulary. People are anxious, trying to carry on, surrounded by uncertainty. They are looking to healthcare experts for guidance. And here, pharmacists can play a significant role in helping patients confront the crisis. Here are some ways pharmacists can help.

What did you learn?

In this issue:

What Did We Learn from 2019

Top Pharmacy Conferences in 2020

Pharmacist Shortages in 2020 and Beyond

How to prepare ... and stay ahead!

In this issue:

How to Prepare for and Stay Ahead of Drug Shortages

How Chain Pharmacies Are Embracing Preventive Care

How to Communicate Side Effects Without Scaring Patients

Have you noticed patients having panic attacks?

In this issue:

Dealing with Panic Attacks

Growing Reimbursement Pressure Leaves More Drug Store Chains Turning to CBD Sales

CBD: Consulting Pharmacy Patients on CBD Use

Are You Consulting Pharmacy Patients on This?

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CBD: Consulting Pharmacy Patients on CBD Use

Dealing With the Influence of Anti-Vaccine Celebrities

The Role of Pharmacogenomics in Drug Therapy

Will This FDA Program Fuel Innovation and Development?

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Could a New FDA Program Fuel Innovation and New Drug Development?

What Is Pharmacogenomic Testing?

How to Eliminate Confusion When Rx Packaging and Concentrations Change

Is Salary an Issue for Your Employees?

In this issue:

For Pharmacists, Salary Often Is Not the Issue

What Is Holding Pharmacists Back? A Closer Look at the Barriers Pharmacists Face

Hospitals Join Forces to Prevent Drug Shortages

Is this holding you back?

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What Is Holding Pharmacists Back? A Closer Look at the Barriers Pharmacists Face

Hospitals Join Forces to Prevent Drug Shortages

Study Finds That Pharmacist Intervention Reduces Opioid Use Post Surgery

What Hospitals Are Doing to Prevent Drug Shortages

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Hospitals Join Forces to Prevent Drug Shortages

Study Finds That Pharmacist Intervention Reduces Opioid Use Post Surgery

Are Your Customers in Love With Their Pharmacy Experience?

These Are the Top Prescribed Drugs of 2019

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Top Prescribed Drugs of 2019

The Top Pharmacy Conferences of 2019

What’s New With the Flu?

Here's the best from 2018!

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Best Pharmacy Blog Posts of 2018

How to Handle Complaints About Rising Medication Costs

Tips for Building Strong and Loyal Patient Relationships

Are you handling these customer complaints?

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How to Handle Complaints About Rising Medication Costs

Tips for Building Strong and Loyal Patient Relationships

How Generic Combination Drugs Are Reducing Spending

Do your patients know about medical marijuana?

In this issue:

It’s High Time We Educate Patients on Marijuana Use

As Celebrities Bring Notoriety to the Opioid Epidemic, Community Pharmacists Can Offer Help

Ready for Flu Season?

What you need to know about expiration dates.

In this issue:

Educating Patients on Expiration Dates

What are NSAIDS?

Are Patients Misusing NSAIDS?

How much do you know about NSAIDS?

In this issue:

What are NSAIDS?

Are Patients Misusing NSAIDS?

Top Ten Pharmacy Magazines

These are must-reads for pharmacists.

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Top Ten Pharmacy Magazines

FDA Approves First Non-Opioid Drug for Withdrawal

The Potential Impact of President Trump’s Drug Pricing Policy

Do you normally compensate this way?

In this issue:

New Ways to Compensate Your Pharmacists

The Potential Impact of President Trump's Drug Pricing Policy

What Unused Patient Medicine Is Costing

What Is a nutraceutical?

In this issue:

Nutraceutical? What Is a Nutraceutical?

Current Pharmacy Trends and the Future of Pharmacy

How Is Amazon Affecting the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Are you dealing with an angry physician?

In this issue:
Dealing With an Angry Physician
Taking All Your Meds? There's an App for That
Contract Pharmacist Breaks $1.6 Million in Earnings!

Are you using this app?

In this issue:

Taking All Your Meds? There's an App for That

Contract Pharmacist Breaks $1.6 Million in Earnings!

Pharmacist Shortage in 2018 and Beyond

Noticing more flu cases lately?

In this issue:

Is Influenza on the Rise in the U.S.?

Top Pharmacy Conferences in 2018

Top Drug Patent Losses in 2017

A look back at the best of 2017 in pharmacy

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Top Pharmacy Blog Posts of 2017

Top Drug Patent Losses in 2017

Top Prescribed Pharmaceuticals from 2017

Is the mail order pharmaceutical gap filled?

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Are Big Box Retailers Filling the Mail Order Pharmaceutical Gap?

How to Educate Parents About Vaccinations

More Young Americans Are Getting the Flu Shot

This advice is just in time!

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Ditch the White Pharmacy Coat and Have Some Fun This Halloween!

The Opioid Crisis and The Role Pharmacists Can Play in Tapering Patients Off Narcotics

Common Side Effects: Are TV Ads for Medications Causing You Headaches?

What's your role in the opioid crisis?

In this issue:

The Opioid Crisis and The Role Pharmacists Can Play in Tapering Patients Off Narcotics

Common Side Effects: Are TV Ads for Medications Causing You Headaches?

How Community Pharmacists are Reducing Hospital Readmission

Experiencing these side effects of TV ads?

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Common Side Effects: Are TV Ads for Medications Causing You Headaches?

How Community Pharmacists are Reducing Hospital Readmission

How to Educate a Patient Who Is Self-Prescribing

Are your patients self prescribing?

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How to Educate a Patient Who Is Self-Prescribing

Polypharmacy Risks in the Elderly

What Are Orphan Drugs and How Will They Affect You?

Are you staying up on these pharmacy trends?

In this issue:

The Pharmacy Trends That Will Shape the Rest of 2017

What Are Orphan Drugs and How Will They Affect You?

How to Help Your Patients Afford EpiPens

Is medication adherence becoming an issue?

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When Medication Adherence Becomes an Issue

How Can Religious Observations Affect Your Patients?

How Community Pharmacies Are Impacting Influenza

Are pharmacists in danger?

In this issue:

Safety in Retail Pharmacies -- Are Pharmacists in Danger?

Should You Be Concerned About Biosimilars?

Deprescribing and Why It's Becoming Commonplace

What will the new political landscape mean for pharmacists?

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What Will the New Political Landscape Mean for Pharmacists?

Top Pharmacy Conferences for 2017

Eating These Foods Can Have Medicinal Effects

A response to growing antibiotic resistance

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A Response to Growing Antibiotic Resistance

Eating These Foods Can Have Medicinal Effects

FDA Approves Solution for the Treatment of Hypertension

Did you hear about the FDA's new approval?

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FDA Approves Solution for the Treatment of Hypertension

Classifying Different Types of Insulin

Tips on Combating Drug Misuse

Are you combating drug misuse?

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Tips on Combating Drug Misuse

ASHP Puts Safety First

Taking Steps to Reduce Polypharmacy

Take these steps to reduce medication errors

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ASHP Puts Safety First

Taking Steps to Reduce Polypharmacy

Team-Based Care Is Now a Reality

Is your workforce ready for team-based care?

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Team-Based Care Is Now a Reality

New Names, Same Product

FDA Approval of Implant is a Step in the Right Direction

Are surging drug costs wreaking havoc on your business?

In this issue:

Surging Drug Costs Wreak Havoc on Hospital Pharmacies

Pharmacists' Role in Chronic Pain Management

The Dreaded Rx Incident Report

What's your role in chronic pain management?

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Pharmacists' Role in Chronic Pain Management

The Dreaded Rx Incident Report

Hiring Right Out of School?

Learn the staggering cost of a bad pharmaceutical hire!

In this issue:

The Staggering Cost of a Bad Pharmaceutical Hire

2016 Pharmacy Hiring Outlook

Pack Your Bags and Get Your Phamacy CMEs

Are you building the right culture and values?

Creating the right culture and values is important for any company, and especially so in the hospital pharmacy setting where people's lives are on the line. So, how can you build the right company culture and instill those values in employees? Here are a few tips.

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