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WHAT I S C L I N I C A L P H A R M A C Y A N D WH E R E D O E S I T H A P P E N ? One final point about ‘clinical pharmacy’: spending time on wards does not necessarily guarantee that you are doing ‘clinical pharmacy’. What is this ‘clinical pharmacy’ and what does it mean to be a clinical pharmacist? We believe that ALL pharmacy is clinical pharmacy, whether you are on the wards or working in distribution, or anywhere else. Clinical pharmacy happens in a person’s head – it is the thought behind what you are doing. This means that every pharmacist is a clinical pharmacist, whatever sector he or she is working in, and whatever setting he or she is practising in. Make sure that, wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are training yourself to be a ‘clinical pharmacist’.

to be hospital pharmacist 1

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what do we mean exactly when we say ‘professional’? If you look at a dictionary the definition is something like the following 1. Following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder. 2. Of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies. 3. Appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity. 4. Engaged in one of the learned professions: a lawyer is a professional person. 5. Following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer. 6. Making a business or constant practice of something not properly to be regarded as a business: ‘A salesman,’ he said, ‘is a professional optimist.’ 7. Undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain: professional baseball. 8. Of or for a professional person or his or her place of business or work: a professional apartment; professional equipment. 9. Done by a professional; expert: professional car repairs. Being a professional is defined as the fol...

Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada Questions & Answers

Overview Q1 What is the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada? The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) is the national certification body for the pharmacy profession in Canada. PEBC is a non-profit organization with more than 40 years of experience in assessing the qualifications and competence of candidates for licensing by pharmacy provincial regulatory authorities. Established by Special Act of Parliament on December 21,1963, PEBC functions as an arms-length national examining board for pharmacists seeking entry-to-practice licensure in Canada.

nanotechnology

nanotechnology nanotechnology is the science of matter with sizes in the range of 1 – 100 nm (1 – 100 �10 − 9 m). These are scales of large molecules; for example, the sizes of some familiar matter are DNA, 1 – 2 nm; virus, 3 – 50 nm; and red blood cell, ∼ 300 nm. At these nano scales, matter behaves quite differently than it would at the macro level to which we are accustomed. Properties such as conductivity, magnetism, melting and boiling points, and reactivity may be dissimilar at the nano and macro scales due to the quantum mechanical behavior of small structures at molecular dimensions. nanotechnology provides a means to manufacture particles with very high surface area to mass ratio and, together with their unique properties, may provide opportunities for more surface interactions and biochemical reactions to ensue. One use of nanotechnology is for drug delivery devices. Nano cages with embedded drugs can be delivered to their targets with high specifi city and enable interaction...