What’s New with Creatine?
With warmer temperatures and summer approaching workout regimens are amping up. Creatine is one of the top selling supplements on Amazon. In our NatMed article, we review the evidence and discuss our latest creatine update. We found that the most supportive evidence on its use is for athletic performance and muscle strength. We discuss the benefits with different sports and also advise providers on preferred types and dosages.
What’s New with Creatine?
With warmer temperatures and summer approaching workout regimens are amping up. Creatine is one of the top selling supplements on Amazon. In our NatMed article, we review the evidence and discuss our latest creatine update. We found that the most supportive evidence on its use is for athletic performance and muscle strength. We discuss the benefits with different sports and also advise providers on preferred types and dosages.
Pharmacy Law & Regulatory Update
New Pharmacy Bills: Stay in Compliance with Bula
Last month, Bula added over 111 bills affecting the practice of pharmacy, with significant numbers originating from states such as Illinois, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Missouri. Bula diligently monitors the evolving landscape of pharmacy laws, complex regulations, and sub-regulations within its platform, all crucial to the industry, including pharmacy bills and proposed rules.
Here’s a sample section of a bill currently being tracked within the Bula platform for the state of Illinois. Each bill includes a simple summary, a clear view of the events taking place, versions, laws impacted, and links to potentially impacted FAQs.
How You Can Monitor Reports in the Bills and Proposed Rules Database:
- Search legislative and regulatory updates in all of your jurisdictions.
- Customize a search query specific to your needs.
- Search by keyword, jurisdiction, law type, timeframe, or topics.
- Schedule this report to be sent to you on your desired schedule.
- Download the report as an Excel Workbook file.
- Create as many search queries, reports, and alerts as you wish.
Learn how Bula can streamline your pharmacy compliance efforts.
The CE/CME & Training Organizer is Now Available for Your Prescribers
We now offer complimentary access to the CE/CME & Training Organizer to our physician, APRN, RN, and PA group subscribers. When you make a group purchase for Prescriber Insights, your physicians, PAs, and APRNs stay up to date on new drug therapy changes and medication recommendations with advice on how to apply new changes into their practice. And when you add NetCE All Access, your physicians, PAs, APRNs, and RNs get everything that’s needed to conveniently meet state licensing and/or certification requirements in a reliable way.
Prescriber Insights + NetCE All Access includes:
- 1,700+ CE/CME Hours for APRNs and RNs
- 1,000+ CE/CME Hours for Physicians and PAs
- Complete Coverage of HIPPA, OSHA, & MATE Training
- Live CE/CME & State Mandates on One Platform
- Learning Management Portal
And now that we’re including the CE/CME organizer, you can give your clinical staff hours back by eliminating the need for tedious tracking and reporting – allowing them time to confidently focus on patient care with the peace of mind knowing their CE/CME requirements are taken care of.
Support your physicians, APRNs, RNs, and PAs with our streamlined solution for all of their CE/CME and training needs.
Is Your Pharmacy Experiencing a Pharmacy Technician Shortage?
One of the most effective ways to help recruit and retain pharmacy technicians is to have training programs that foster career development opportunities. PTU Elite provides a robust suite of advanced training programs that allows pharmacies to expand the role of their technicians while also offering them career advancement support. Programs include:
- Controlled Substances & Diversion
- CSPT™ Training
- Hazardous Drugs
- Immunizations
- Math Mastery
- Point-of-Care Testing
- Soft Skills
Support your pharmacy technicians at every stage of their career with PTU Elite.
Enhance your pharmacy team's skills for USP compliance and patient safety today.
Medication Talk, Pharmacy Podcast
As a Pharmacist’s Letter subscriber, you and your staff can get CE credit for listening to our podcasts.
Check out this month’s podcast, Diabetes Treatment Updates, and listen in as our expert panel discusses management of type 2 diabetes, including overcoming hurdles with metformin, GLP-1 agonists, and SGLT2 inhibitors.
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- Hospital Pharmacist’s Letter: Management of Acute and Chronic Hyperkalemia
- Hospital Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Drug-Induced Edema
- Pharmacist’s Letter: Appropriate Use of Oral Benzodiazepines
- Pharmacist’s Letter Canada: Biologics and Inhalation Medications for Asthma
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Correct Use of Inhalers
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter Canada: Urinary Tract Infections
- Prescriber Insights: APRN: Flu Vaccines for 2023-24
- Prescriber Insights: MD: Preventing RSV
- Prescriber Insights: PA: Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders in Adults
- Hospital Pharmacist’s Letter: Management of Acute and Chronic Hyperkalemia
- Hospital Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Drug-Induced Edema
- Pharmacist’s Letter: Appropriate Use of Oral Benzodiazepines
- Pharmacist’s Letter Canada: Biologics and Inhalation Medications for Asthma
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Correct Use of Inhalers
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter Canada: Urinary Tract Infections
- Prescriber Insights: APRN: Flu Vaccines for 2023-24
- Prescriber Insights: MD: Preventing RSV
- Prescriber Insights: PA: Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders in Adults
About TRC Healthcare
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