They are coming to take me away !

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

I am getting so fed up with the poorly trained staff at nursing homes and the similar types that corps hire as pharmacy techs. I see a order for Clonidine 0.1mg and to DECREASE the dose to 0.5 mg .. this is what came from the nursing home and the tech typed in “TAKE FIVE […]

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Let’s stop drinking the corporate “kool-aid”

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Collectively, our profession has an acute case of Optimism Bias.. According to Wikipedia… Optimism bias is the demonstrated systematic tendency for people to be overly optimistic about the outcome of planned actions. I don’t need to expound on every thing that we let slide… short cuts we have allowed to develop … that we know […]

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