I asked my mum to recycle the packaging at her vaccination centre so she collected 4000 paper syringe wrappers and made them into this
#reducereuserecycle#origami#cranes
What people think Pharmacists do: count pills.
What Pharmacists actually do: provide expert medical advice without an appointment, supervise OTC sales, order repeats, train colleagues, vaccines, deal with complaints, paperwork, pick up potentially serious drug errors daily.
Please share this widely everyone. Pharmacy is a great career, lots of choices, exciting opportunities, and helping patients as part of a multidisciplinary team is at the centre of everything we do.
Might sound silly to some but community pharmacists are also dealing with the death of regular patients/familiar friendly faces - while we’re not seeing it first hand (I can’t imagine how ICU staff are coping), hearing of the passing of patients daily has an impact on us too 😔
The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it works so I’m going to try my best here in this thread while I’m waiting for a patient to show.
Public Service announcement; Just because your GP says it will be 48 hours for a repeat prescription doesn’t mean you should only allow them that much time. They have lots of other work going on too and pharmacies also need time to order items in if necessary. #primarycare
Something about having your pre reg in a pandemic and then having to sit the exam like nothings happened just doesn’t sit right with me, I wonder what support/consideration this year will be given
More on vaccines. I'm going to get boring and geeky on this (no apologies) on the 10 year thing. Vaccines "normally take 10 years". This is being use as a reason to be fearful (ie rushed job). I'm a clinical trials doc. I can tell you most of that time is spent doing...1/n
New inquiry out today❗
We have launched a flash inquiry into the impact of the pandemic on pharmacy. Running until 30 Nov.
Read more about evidence submissions here: 👇 https://t.co/vUiGO1GhK7
Phamacy professionals please take the survey 👇 https://t.co/cJhhH0CJyM