Brittany Burns (Franchuk)

LTC Pharmacist (UWaterloo Rx2015) 💊
Mother 👨‍👩‍👧 👣
Lives in Northern Ontario🦌🌲
Huge curling fan 🥌

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@CurlingCanada Really disappointed regarding your lack of transparency on this very serious decision/allegation hours before their first draw. Seems sketchy that the reason cannot be released.

I hope @EinarsonTeam will be resilient given this drama. #Scotties

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@grumpypharm I'm allergic to penicillin..... (rarely is this actually true)

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@carlypettinger @dave__whiteside 100% second this about the shifts in the beginning!

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@cullenoncurling When can we expect to know the tea!? You can't post something like this and leave us all hanging.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@cbccolleenjones I knew he wouldn't be gone for long!

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@PharmacistMama 100% echo all of the above! It is honestly my pet peeve that recent negotiations throughout covid the past couple years were not used as leverage for everything else we can do and have been asking for for years. Im all for expanded scope but make it make sense!

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@grandslamcurl @Kmartcurl @CurlingInside

Curious people's thoughts about back to back blank ends...perhaps the rules need changing. This is a bit disappointing for semi-final action.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@kgrindrod I've always thought there has to be a better system where we somehow get alerted when inventory is near a minimum threshold so then alternatives/rxs could be obtianed in advance of a backorder!

It drives me nuts that these manufacturers get off Scott free.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@kgrindrod This exact point you're sharing is my pet peeve with ALL medication backorders. Things literally disappear overnight from the supplier without warning and there is no accountability on them as they leave Healthcare professionals and patients hanging/scrambling. (1/2)

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

Caring for patients stuck in the ER for days. Unable to discharge patients due to lack of home care. Elders stuck in their rooms because of COVID outbreaks in LTC. HCWs exhausted, some off sick, some quitting.

Just another day working in Canada's collapsing healthcare system! 😢

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@pmc8387 @DrRitaMc @picardonhealth @BCFamilyDoctors @VCHhealthcare Sadly agree the system isn't coordinated. In ON the ownus is on the patient/family to book a follow up within 1-2 weeks post discharge to review things. It's pre-printed on our hospital discharge papers in my region.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

(2/2) Our seniors deserve better. How would you feel being told you don't have a choice where you get to live and may die alone?

I practice in N.ON where there is several hours and hundreds of km between destinations.

What they are proposing is NOT an acceptable solution!

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

So...Ontario's Minister of Long-Term Care, who is tasked with looking after the well-being of vulnerable seniors…is now okay with sending vulnerable seniors from hospital to a long-term care facility without consent, far away from their family.

No compassion. No humanity. 💔

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

THIS 👇 I'm appalled that Ontario re-elected the Ford government.

I work in LTC - delirium, depression, anxiety, BPSD will all increase when residents are separated from their communities and families. I saw this first hand while residents had to isolate during COVID. (1/2)

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

So...Ontario's Minister of Long-Term Care, who is tasked with looking after the well-being of vulnerable seniors…is now okay with sending vulnerable seniors from hospital to a long-term care facility without consent, far away from their family.

No compassion. No humanity. 💔

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

THIS 👇It boggles my mind that our province re-elected Ford. His agenda has always been privatization and sadly thats where we're headed as the system continues to collapse. Wake up and smell the coffee next time it's election time ON! We could have put an end to this. #ONpoli

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@girl_curling @LesleyE410 Brad was only engaging because Moulding's new team is based in Northern ON. Brad started a joke about putting together a team of retired curlers (hackner, his uncle and middaugh) to battle them in NO. The joke apparently wasn't funny to everyone and hit a sensitive note.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@mward04 @CBthePHARMD ☝️That was my thought exactly when Paxlovid first came out! Shouldn't need an antiviral for something that you're already protected against with the vaccine - seemed like common sense in my mind as a Pharmacist.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@PharmacistMama (2/2) & don't get me started about the poor reimbursement models, or lack there of in our profession for things we can do. School told us it's a good time to be an RPh...pharm politics and how I've been treated since graduating 7 years ago sadly tells me otherwise ☹️ #casualty

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@PharmacistMama To be honest I thought community pharmacy already was a casualty (burnout rates were high even pre covid) & because our system is broken we're not allowed to use our full skill set to fill the gaps (order lab tests, Tx substitution etc). It frustrates me to feel handcuffed. (1/2)

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@PharmacistMama I like clinical work too! I just wish proper reimbursement models would actually be implemented to go with it. Our profession is constantly doing more and more for "free". I worry about minor ailments coming with no reimbursement model mentioned yet.....Our time is valuable.

[Brittany Burns (Franchuk) @BFranchuk]

@horsepharmer @CdnPharmChief I know Danielle from school! She's lovely - always knew she would go far in the profession. We need more people like her at the top. @UWPharmacy represent! 🙂💊❤️