My experience growing up was very different from most children who grow up in the United States. I grew up in one house with eleven other people and that number increased every time someone would come to visit. Being part of this very large and close-knit family had its advantages‚ like taking me to the park if my parents were busy‚ but it also had its disadvantages. For example‚ if one of us got sick with the cold or the flu‚ it spread throughout the house like a wildfire. I watched those close
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Effect Josh Hanshaw 20th Century Innovation Dr. Bowles March 10th‚ 2012 Q1) How did Wal-Mart grow its Pharmacy business? Who did they learn from? Give specifics. In 1981 Clarence Archer was hired by Wal-Mart. He was a 48 year old previous pharmacist and current pharmacy manager at Kroger’s. His job was to take one of Walton’s secondary projects‚ Dot Discount Drugs‚ and make it a permanent fixture of Wal-Mart. When Archer joined up Wal-Mart had 300 stores‚ 16 pharmacies and space for another
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clinic of the Cape Fear Clinic in Wilmington‚ NC‚ has provided pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy services to a mostly female population of poor and uninsured patients (average age‚ about 45 years) under a CPM that includes a state-licensed Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner with prescribing privileges. Spanish is the primary language of about 28% of the clinic’s patients. At patient intake and (when possible) six months later‚ three measures of physical and mental health are administered: the Short-Form
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Medication discrepancies at the point of hospital discharge are a common occurrence [1-3]. A recent study reported that 41.3 % of patients had at least one unintentional medication discrepancy at hospital discharge‚ and 55.3 % were at risk for potential unintentional discrepancies involving incomplete or omitted prescription drug records [3]. In addition‚ a randomized controlled trial among 851 discharged cardiac patients concluded that about half of the patients (50.8 %) experienced clinically important
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A reflection on the skills acquired from collaborative learning and how they may be applied in practice The Inter-professional Education (IPE) module is about students from different healthcare professions who learn together about the concepts of health care and how to improve patient care and health services in general. Reynolds (2005) defined IPE as “…collaborative working and the sharing of common goals in relation to the patient /client care or therapy.” Throughout this reflective assignment
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the majority of regular customers. Using a system of equations‚ we calculated the light users to account for 92.5% of the regular customers‚ and the remaining 7.5% to be heavy users. Installing an easy to use IT system for technicians and pharmacists‚ alike. Extensive training to
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MBA 560 – Marketing Principles Case Analysis Pepcid AC Racing to the OTC Market The managers at Johnson & Johnson/Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. (JJM) have two options regarding their newest over-the-counter (OTC) drug Pepcid AC. The first option would be to pursue both claims of treatment and prevention‚ which would help differentiate their drug from other competitors OTC drugs that are also pending FDA approval. The first option could require up to 9 months of additional studies
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drugs). * GSL medicines MUST be licensed and are sold in shops and supermarkets. Examples of these types of medicine are 36 paracetamol and Gaviscon. * P medicines can only be sold in registered pharmacies under the supervision of the pharmacist. An example of this is Cholramphenicol (eye drops). *
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comments from three different sources: COPDconnect.com which has two active health professionals that post educational materials and respond to posts. Dr. Gary‚ a therapist‚ works with individuals living with chronic conditions and Pharmacist George‚ a licensed pharmacist‚ is certified in smoking cessation‚ diabetes and cholesterol management‚ nutrition planning‚ and personal training. HealthCentral.com which was founded by Jane M. Martin‚ a Respiratory Therapist with a degree in Elementary Education
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Computer Applications in Pharmacy Presenters: Judy Riffee Art Wharton Components-Hardware Physical components of a computer or computer system Three types of hardware required for computers to operate effectively 1. Processing components—organize‚ manage‚ and store the data CPU-retrieve and decode instructions and are the components that run the operation of the computer. Allows information to be passed within the components of the computer. Memory-main storage component called RAM (Random Access
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