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ABM College: Your Gateway to Pharmacy Assistant Training

In today's fast-paced world, the healthcare industry is evolving rapidly, and with it, the roles of healthcare professionals are expanding. Among these critical roles is that of the pharmacy assistant, a position that demands both knowledge and adaptability. ABM College in Calgary recognizes this demand and offers a comprehensive Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program that is now available online, providing flexibility and accessibility to students across Canada.

This article will delve into the pharmacy assistant course offered at ABM College Calgary Campus, highlighting the benefits of the program, the convenience of online learning, and why this could be the stepping stone you need for a career in pharmacy.

What is a Pharmacy Assistant?

Pharmacy assistants play a pivotal role in the operation of pharmacies. They work under the supervision of licensed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to ensure customers receive the correct medication and understand how to use it. Their duties can include processing prescriptions, managing inventory, providing customer service, and handling administrative tasks.

With the healthcare sector expanding, there is a growing need for well-trained pharmacy assistants. The right education and training can set you on a path to a rewarding career in the health services industry.

Why Choose ABM College for Your Pharmacy Assistant Diploma?

ABM College is known for its dedication to providing high-quality education that aligns with industry standards. Their Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program is no exception. Here's why you should consider enrolling in their program:

Experienced Instructors

The program is led by experienced instructors who have worked in the field and understand the practical demands of the job. They provide students with insights into the pharmaceutical industry and guide them through the intricacies of their future roles.

Hands-On Training

Even though the program is offered online, ABM College ensures that students receive practical training. Virtual simulations and interactive activities are incorporated into the coursework to give students a feel for the real-world tasks they will encounter.

Career Services

ABM College supports its graduates through comprehensive career services, including resume writing assistance, interview preparation, and job placement support. The college has a network of industry contacts that can help graduates find employment opportunities.

The Online Advantage

In an increasingly digital world, online education provides numerous benefits. Let's take a look at how ABM College's online Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program stands out:

Flexibility and Convenience

The online format allows you to balance your studies with personal and professional commitments. You can access course materials from anywhere, at any time, making it easier to integrate learning into your busy life.

Access to Resources

Students enrolled in the online program have access to the same resources as those attending in-person classes. This includes online libraries, lecture notes, and other learning materials that are essential for success.

Interactive Learning Environment

ABM College's online platform is designed to be interactive and engaging. Discussion forums, live chat sessions with instructors, and group projects encourage collaboration and communication among students, creating a vibrant learning community.

Cutting-Edge Technology

The program utilizes the latest educational technologies to deliver content and facilitate learning. From virtual labs to simulation software, students gain experience with the tools they'll use in their careers as pharmacy assistants.

Program Details

The Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program at ABM College is comprehensive and takes a well-rounded approach to prepare students for their careers. Here's an overview of what to expect:

Course Structure

The program is structured to cover all critical aspects of pharmaceutical training. Courses include:

Introduction to Pharmacy

Pharmacy Law and Ethics

Pharmacy Mathematics

Pharmacology

Prescription Processing

Over-the-Counter Medications

Compounding

Pharmacy Software Practice

Duration of the Program

The Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program is designed to be completed within a specific timeframe, allowing students to enter the workforce promptly. Contact ABM College for current program duration and start dates.

Admission Requirements

To be eligible for the program, applicants must meet certain academic and technical requirements. Prospective students should have a high school diploma or equivalent and meet the college's English language proficiency standards. Technical requirements include a reliable internet connection and access to a computer.

Career Opportunities

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Graduates of the Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program can look forward to a variety of career opportunities. Employment can be found in:

Community Pharmacies

Hospital Pharmacies

Long-term Care Facilities

Pharmaceutical Distribution Companies

Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies

Pharmacy assistants can also use this diploma as a stepping stone to further their education and pursue roles as pharmacy technicians or pharmacists.

How to Apply

ABM College has streamlined the application process for the Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program. Interested individuals can apply online through the college's website. Applicants will need to provide transcripts and meet the admission requirements outlined above.

Financial Aid

ABM College offers various financial aid options to help students fund their education. This can include scholarships, bursaries, student loans, and payment plans. Prospective students should consult with the financial aid office to explore what options are available to them.

Conclusion

The Pharmacy Assistant Diploma online at ABM College Calgary Campus provides an accessible path to a fulfilling career in the pharmaceutical industry. With a robust curriculum, experienced instructors, and the flexibility of online learning, students are well-equipped to meet the demands of this growing field.

For those looking to enter the healthcare sector, or for professionals aiming to expand their skills, this program offers the training and support needed to succeed. Take the first step towards your future as a pharmacy assistant by exploring what ABM College has to offer.

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Embark on your journey to becoming an integral part of the healthcare team. Visit ABM College's website to learn more about the Pharmacy Assistant Diploma program and start your application today.

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Resurface 9 - Rebalance

Stepping away from the main event a little for a look at how the Tinies are doing…

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Thunderbird Two sat steaming on the icy concrete of the hospital’s helipad. It was a bright morning in Calgary but everything was deeply, deeply white. It was only marginally above eyeball-freezing temperature and it would definitely have been more sensible to wait for Grandma to finish whatever argument she was having with the pharmacy inside… either inside the ship, or the hospital. But Gordon didn’t seem to want to do either of those and Alan sort of got it, so… here they were.

Alan paced the length of the big green behemoth. Slowly. Carefully, testing each step before putting his weight on that foot. He didn’t want to slip and cause an incident. If only they’d suited up his uniform boots would have been far more grippy… and warmer. Still, he needed to concentrate on something and the act of walking was, ironically, safer ground than most of the other options. He shivered.

“You alright, Allie?”

“Sure, why wouldn’t I be?” He didn’t look around. Focussed on placing his feet one at a time into the footprints he left on the last pass.

“Well I dunno, perhaps the horrifying experience of our most consistent, reliable elder brother suddenly losing his sanity, yelling at our dead father and nearly throwing himself and Scott down a cliff?”

Alan flinched. Then looked down at Gordon who was crouched by one of Two’s struts, looking for all the world like a kicked puppy. He looked young, and lost and in need of a big brother. But right now there weren’t any available, only Alan the perpetual younger brother. Alan the baby who needed protecting from everything. Alan the small and incompetent who hid a terrible secret inside.

If Gordon knew… if Scott and John knew… what if Virgil told them? Did Virgil even know?

He may only have been a little kid but he had been smart enough to know he’d messed up. Smart enough to join the dots between his clumsiness and Virgil getting sick. He hadn’t been smart enough to understand why one brother had left him, but he had known he was to blame for nearly losing the second.

He grit his teeth and started pacing again.

And then paused and made a U-turn back to where his usually irrepressibly sunshiney brother huddled, stony-faced in the shadow of his wingman’s ship. Alan crouched alongside him and they both stared into the distance for a while.

“This sucks.” He ventured.

“Yup.”

“You alright?”

“No.”

Alan let out a humourless laugh.

“Sorry, stupid question.”

“I asked it too.”

“Yeah, and I lied. Sorry.”

“S’ok.”

He really wasn’t very good at this. He tried to think what Scott or Virgil would do, and mostly the talking bit happened later… the first response to a sad sibling usually boiled down to one of those magical all-encompassing big brother hugs. But surely he needed to be bigger than Gordon for that to work? Alan was the baby, he didn’t have the arms for it. Didn’t have the presence.

Yet… maybe it wasn’t about size. Thunderbird Three was, after all, a lot bigger than Two. But Two’s wings had an unparalleled ability to shelter them all. While Three was adventure, Two was safety. And Four, Alan realised, depended on her more than any of them.

Right now Four needed Two badly.

But Three was better than nothing.

He held his breath and reached around Gordon’s shoulders and pulled him close. His elder brother stiffened for a moment, clearly conflicted. Then seemed to melt into Alan’s side with a gasp. Alan wrapped his other arm around him and squeezed tighter.

“What if we don’t get him back, Alan?”

“We will. He will be ok.”

“You don’t know that.”

“No, but… I’m hoping really really hard.”

“I guess that’s all we’ve got.”

“That and… we always have each other? Tracys stick together no matter what, right?”

Gordon huffed a small laugh from somewhere in the vicinity of Alan’s armpit.

“What?”

“You’re just a teeny tiny Scott clone, you know that right?”

“I’m not that small!”

Alan flicked Gordon on the ear. Gordon jabbed him in the side which made him squeal uncontrollably. They scrabbled for a few moments before both tipped over and lay there for a minute, laughing the kind of laughs you laugh when the only other option is to cry.

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Sally hurried out of the lift, dragging a small suitcase and clutching the paper pharmacy bag she’d had to shout down three junior pharmacists and two senior to obtain. Turned out, even when you have the consultant psychiatrist convinced, the pharma team were very reluctant to dispense an older drug, even if it had been proven to work well on a particular patient in the past. She didn’t have time to mess about with the shiny new third gen antipsys when she didn’t know how her boy would react. She just needed some certainty. They all did. That she’d managed to make them see sense without having to use the Name was professionally satisfying. She didn’t really want to risk that kind of speculation right now. People could be unkind about things they didn’t understand.

Somewhat apprehensive as to what state Gordon and Alan might be in, she was surprised, although not unpleasantly, to find both younger brothers on their feet, brushing slush from their clothes and hair… flicking it at each other just a little more than seemed strictly necessary. She raised an eyebrow in askance then lowered it, deciding not to go there. Whatever kept these two going right now was fine by her. She hugged them both briefly but hard, then heaved the case on to the platform.

“Right boys, let’s go home.”

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Vax and relax with no access to the vax. I'm sure that will work out just fine.

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Alberta rolled out its fall immunization campaign on Tuesday, but people hoping to get both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at the same time might have to wait, with many pharmacies yet to receive a shipment of the new COVID shots.

"We were expecting to get flu and COVID shots together, so that was the plan initially, but just prior to the launch, we were told the vaccines would be a little delayed for COVID," said Nisma Shaukat, the pharmacist at Copperfield Pharmasave.

In September, Alberta Health announced both vaccines would be available on Oct. 15(opens in a new tab).

While many pharmacies are unable to open bookings until delivery of the shots, others were forced to cancel bookings on Tuesday.

"It's certainly inconvenient for people, especially when a lot of them heard through radio commercials and things like that that everything would be available together on the 15th," Shaukat said.

"So, many are coming in together, expecting to do both and we have to tell them, 'No, we only have one available at the moment.'"

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says a "glitch" involving a distributor, McKesson, has led to the delay in shipments.

"I'm assured they are rolling out the vaccine products and vaccine themselves to pharmacies and AHS clinics and will have everyone full-supplied by the end of the week."

Previously, the province blamed distribution problems(opens in a new tab) for family doctors not getting access to flu shots to administer.

Now, it's pharmacists who worry the delay may make it difficult to get people back through the doors for another appointment, citing a slowdown in vaccine uptake in Alberta.

During the 2023-24 flu season, 1.1 million Albertans received a flu shot, the majority through pharmacies and clinics.

That's about 140,000 people fewer than the previous year.

"It slowed down some, no question there. Last year, I think the flu numbers were half the peak and that's also why we had a really bad flu year," said David Brewerton with Lukes Drug Mart.

He describes the delay as a minor inconvenience but said Albertans shouldn't hesitate to get the shot as soon as they can, with a new strain of COVID-19 circulating.

"They should get it soon," he said.

"The fellow I just gave it to now has a person at work already and they've got other people with it. There is certainly COVID going around, there is no question there."

Health experts worry about what kind of impact a delay in vaccines will have on the upcoming respiratory virus season.

"The problem is low uptake today is going to a lead to a problem not tomorrow, not three weeks from now, but Christmastime when we're going to have all the hospitals overflowing," said microbiologist Jason Tetro.

He accuses the province of doing little to encourage Albertans to get vaccinated, citing what he describes as a lack of a fall immunization campaign, due to ideological reasons.

"Politicization of the vaccine has made a huge impact, so now we have right versus left but at the end of the day, getting a jab in your arm shouldn't be political," he said.

LaGrange said the province invested $500,000 to immunization campaigns, the same as the previous year.

A delivery date for the COVID-19 vaccine is dependent on pharmacies, so Albertans are encouraged to check in or check online for appointments.

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based on a True Story of just yesterday. I say ok i won't be mean to ed and then suddenly he's sobbing on the pharmacy floor I can't help it!! he looks like a sop but he is a sop with a background in theatre, okay.

do you ever notice that Banff and Jasper kind of take up a Lot of Space in calendars, lol... this is an issue that Ed pretends he's not sensitive about but considering these things keep happening to him, i mean, actually more than once. (Who do they think we are??? Calgary??????). All this on top of his battle with google to change his profile pic too.

anyway have some nice photos of edmonton i took these past few months that are by no means professional but i like them

edmonton :) yeah.

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ISPORs 2024 HEOR Awards

ISPOR’s 2024 HEOR Awards https://ift.tt/9nIc4hx Who won the ISPOR’s 2024 HEOR awards? The list is below. Avedis Donabedian Lifetime Achievement Award: C. Daniel Mullins, PhD; Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research and Executive Director of The PATIENTS Program; University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Baltimore, MD, USA Marilyn Dix Smith Leadership Award: Deborah Marshall, PhD; Professor and Svare Chair in Health Economics, Value, and Impact; University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta, CA  Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award: Natalia Kunst, PhD; Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor); Centre for Health Economics; University of York; York, England, UK Low- and Middle Income Country (LMIC) Health Economics and Outcomes Research Excellence Award: Nelson Rafael Alvis-Guzman, MD, PhD; Professor, Universidad of Cartagena; Cartagena, Colombia Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology: William Padula, PhD; Assistant Professor, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA, USA for the article, “Predicting pressure injury risk in hospitalised patients using machine learning with electronic health records: a US multilevel cohort study;” [BMJ Open. 2024;14(4): e082540.] Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Application: Inmaculada Hernandez, PhD; Professor, University of California San Diego; San Diego, CA, USA for the article, ”Changes In net prices and spending for pharmaceuticals after the introduction of new therapeutic competition.” [Health Aff (Millwood). 2023;42(8):1062-1070.] Value in Health Paper of the Year Award: Aurélie A. Meunier, MSc; Director, Modelling, HEOR, Putnam; London, England, UK for the article, “Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of health technologies: data requirements and challenges.” [Value Health. 2023;26(1):60-63.] Value in Health Regional Issues Excellent Article Award: Carleigh B. Krubiner, PhD; Bioethics Lead, Wellcome; London, England, UK for the article, “The value of explicit, deliberative, and context-specified ethics analysis for health technology assessment: evidence from a novel approach piloted in South Africa.” [Value Health Reg Issues. 2023;34:23-30] Congratulations to all the winners! via Healthcare Economist https://ift.tt/SdVGYC2 October 17, 2024 at 01:04AM

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Calgary Co-op has agreed to become the majority shareholder in Care Pharmacies, a network of independent retail pharmacies across Canada. Neither company released details about the agreement, like valuations or terms. Headquartered in Vaughan, Ont., and founded in 2013, the pharmacy chain has 56 locations in provinces like P.E.I., Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and the company says it’s the largest group of independent retail pharmacies controlled by licensed pharmacists in the country. There are 25 Care Pharmacies in Ontario and 15 in British Columbia. Alberta’s lone location is in Manning, Alta. Calgary Co-op’s CEO Ken Keelor said the acquisition, which still is subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is a “tremendous fit” with the cooperative’s focus on growing its health and wellness business.

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Why Courier Service for Pharmaceutical Deliveries is Important?

From private labs to government health facilities, logistics is an essential part of the medical sector. Speed and efficiency are crucial particularly when delivery could be death or life.

As the healthcare sector is rapidly growing, there is a tremendous demand for safe and fast transfer of health equipment and laboratory samples to deliver better services to patients.

If you are a pharmaceutical company or related distributing firm, then it is highly important for you to avail pharmacy courier services to improve the efficiency and productivity of your business.

Here’s how pharmacy courier services can enhance your business:

Improved Efficiency:

A medical practitioner or medical provider company isn’t efficient when it uses its own driver. Paying for your driver is a waste of investment as you want to answer distinct logistical needs. That is the reason pharmaceutical deliveries would be your ideal choice for your company. They can handle all your deliveries and give you peace of mind.

Delivery Convenience:

Same-day pharmacy courier services offer your company extra levels of convenience. With same-day shipping, you can gain the trust of your customers. If you are a pharmaceutical store, you may use medical couriers to provide life-saving medications. If you are medical supply support, your clients can make the most of everything you may provide in conserving them.

Lower Chances Of Damage:

Employing a pharmacy courier service may give you professional managing capacities. Professionals can manage delicate products easily, as they will have the suitable equipment to do that. with same-day deliveries, you can easily send important products and equipment to their destination while ensuring the safety of packages.

Better Customer Satisfaction:

When it comes to pharmacy courier deliveries, clients demand two things. They would like to receive their parcels as quickly as possible and to receive them in the best condition. For clients who belong to the health care facilities, obtaining medical equipment and supplies on time is essential. All this leads to superior customer satisfaction. Individuals who may obtain their products not just on time but also sooner are more likely to avail your courier services again.

If you are looking for the best and reliable series for pharmacy couriers, then City Wide Courier is the name you can rely on. It is the best company offering pharmacy courier services in Calgary. A skilled team, the right fleet of vehicles, and the affordable price are the reason you should choose City Wide Courier. They ensure that your goods arrive safely and in good condition without any hassle.

Along with this, you can avail of their same-day delivery service, next-day delivery service, and hot-shot courier service at affordable prices. They strive to deliver you the most effective services that meet all your courier needs.

To know more details, you can visit https://citywidecourier.ca/pharmaceutical/