Education

From April next year, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural safety will be of central importance in the standards pharmacists are expected to maintain.

Pharmacy student Mitchell Wong canvases his fellow students on how university life is shaping up. This month he profiles Faith Asovale Tanuvasa

Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic that is effective for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. In this article, Amber Young and Emma Smith explain the roles of the pharmacist in supporting patients taking clozapine

In the first of a two-part series, pharmacist Katrina Azer reflects on lessons from the book Indistractable by Nir Eyal, covering the causes of dispensing errors, and the role of distractions and how to eliminate them

University of Auckland pharmacy student Mitchell Wong is profiling his fellow pharmacy students, the pharmacists of tomorrow. This month, we meet fourth-year student Jonathan Lo

By necessity, pharmacists are perfectionists who must constantly be vigilant for errors, but this can have a flow-on effect in their personal lives, writes Christchurch clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer

The workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley

A small survey of members conducted recently by the Independent Pharmacists Association of New Zealand (IPANZ) shows more than half of the 52 members surveyed are considering changing careers away from community pharmacy.

The workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley

By necessity, pharmacists are perfectionists who must constantly be vigilant for errors, but this can have a flow-on effect in their personal lives, writes Christchurch clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer