Natural Medicines in Cancer Care: Focus on Interactions
A recent survey found that a majority of cancer patients use some form of integrative medicine, but over a quarter of these patients don’t tell their oncologist about it.
Our NatMed article covers how to proactively discuss dietary supplements and integrative therapies with patients. Avoiding dangerous interactions and ensuring safe use of these therapies is crucial for all patients, but especially in a cancer setting.
Natural Medicines in Cancer Care: Focus on Interactions
A recent survey found that a majority of cancer patients use some form of integrative medicine, but over a quarter of these patients don’t tell their oncologist about it.
Our NatMed article covers how to proactively discuss dietary supplements and integrative therapies with patients. Avoiding dangerous interactions and ensuring safe use of these therapies is crucial for all patients, but especially in a cancer setting.
Legislative & Regulatory Update
Keep Track of the Hundreds of New Pharmacy Laws That Are Passing This Year
Each year, state legislatures pass hundreds of laws impacting the practice of pharmacy. So far in this year’s legislative session, Bula has added over 500 bills that impact pharmacies.
Trending topics include:
- Dispensing of abortifacients
- Scheduling of fentanyl
- Prescribing and administering of opioid antagonists
- Pharmacist expanded scope of practice
- Pharmacy technician administration of immunizations
Our dedicated team of policy analysts diligently track bills throughout the entire legislative process, helping your pharmacy anticipate and prepare for changes in law, evaluate and manage risks, and maintain compliance.
Bula is the leading pharmacy law and compliance solution, let us help you navigate these types of changes and more.
Are Your Pharmacists Remaining Competent in Key Clinical Areas?
Ensuring that your pharmacists are staying compliant is required by accrediting and regulatory agencies like The Joint Commission and CMS/Medicare. RxAdvanced helps make training, and keeping up with the latest guidance, easier while earning CE credits through ACPE-accredited courses.
RxAdvanced trains your pharmacists to take the lead in applying the latest research, guidelines, and standards to their practice through concise, affordable, high-quality CE programs. It offers powerful administrative functions to help ease the complexities of managing CE/CME with access to the Learning Management Portal (LMP). With the LMP, program administrators can easily assign a specific CE program to their pharmacists and get all the courses, quizzes, clinical resources, tracking, and reporting tools they need to ensure competency.
The RxAdvanced training suite consists of nine comprehensive training programs including:
- Anticoagulation Management
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Diabetes Monitoring & Management
- Opioid Stewardship
- Sterile Compounding
- Hazardous Drugs
- Leadership & Communication
- Guide to Natural Medicines
- Guide to Cannabis
Free Webinar! Practical Strategies for Managing a Successful Pharmacy Technician Program
Date: Friday, March 22, 2024
Time: 3:30 – 4:30pm ET
Join us for a free live webinar where you’ll learn practical strategies for managing a successful pharmacy technician training program from Matthew Kelm, Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer - Oncology Pharmacy Services at a prominent university and lead surveyor at ASHP/ACPE Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission.
*CE credits are not offered for attending this webinar.
Did You Know That You Can Earn CE/CME With Your NatMed Subscription?
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As a NatMed subscriber, you and your staff can earn CE/CME credits from courses that are focused on topics related to natural medicines, including the safe and effective use of supplements and herbs, as well as alternative modalities such as acupuncture, light therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and more.
We provide credit for pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physicians, and dietitians as well as anyone else who can utilize AMA PRA Category 1 credit.
Share this with your clinicians to ensure your organization is taking full advantage of this benefit!
Check out the latest CE/CME courses:
- The Scoop on Collagen: 0.50 hours
- Cannabinoid Overview: 0.50 hours
- Understanding Glucosamine and Chondroitin: 0.50 hours
- Top-Selling Herbal Supplements: 1.00 hour
- Microbiome Medley: Pre-, Pro-, and Postbiotics: 1.50 hours
- Commonly Abused Supplements: 0.50 hours
- Getting to the Point: Acupuncture & Acupoint Therapies: 1.00 hour
- Complementary Therapies for Menopause: 1.00 hour
- Natural Psychedelics: A Trip Worth Taking?: 1.00 hour
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, Rx and OTC Oral Contraceptives. Special guest, Sarah E. Stumbar, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean for Clinical Education, Department of Medical Education from the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University joins our expert panel to discuss safety and efficacy of combined oral contraceptives and progestin-only pills.
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- Hospital Pharmacist’s Letter: Atrial Fibrillation: Focus on Pharmacotherapy
- Hospital Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Pharmacist’s Letter: Oral Antibiotics for Acute Osteomyelitis in Adults
- Pharmacist’s Letter Canada: Comparison of Oral Contraceptives and Non-Oral Alternatives: Canada
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Comparison of Oral Contraceptives and Non-Oral Alternatives: U.S.
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter Canada: Emergency Epinephrine Injection Devices
- Prescriber Insights: APRN: Potentially Harmful Drugs: Beers Criteria
- Prescriber Insights: MD: Improving COPD Care
- Prescriber Insights: PA: Drugs for Acute Migraine
- Hospital Pharmacist’s Letter: Atrial Fibrillation: Focus on Pharmacotherapy
- Hospital Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Pharmacist’s Letter: Oral Antibiotics for Acute Osteomyelitis in Adults
- Pharmacist’s Letter Canada: Comparison of Oral Contraceptives and Non-Oral Alternatives: Canada
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter: Comparison of Oral Contraceptives and Non-Oral Alternatives: U.S.
- Pharmacy Technician’s Letter Canada: Emergency Epinephrine Injection Devices
- Prescriber Insights: APRN: Potentially Harmful Drugs: Beers Criteria
- Prescriber Insights: MD: Improving COPD Care
- Prescriber Insights: PA: Drugs for Acute Migraine
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