Tag: pharmacy
Cold Chain II
Maintaining the cold chain is difficult out bush. I wrote in August about the high temperatures reached in the planes transporting our pharmaceuticals. Power failures are regular in many remote communities and can lead to failure of the cold chain rendering the vaccines and other refrigerated items unusable. Over time I have built up a [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2009 under Remote health, drug Information.
Tags: cold chain, data loggers, health, immunisation, logistics, pharmacy, refrigerator, remote, vaccine
Comments: 2
Home Medicine Reviews in the Bush
A little over a week ago I posted the first on what I hope is a series on Home Medicines Reviews out bush. This post is written by pharmacist Lisa Crisp who has been doing the Bush HMRs for the Kimberley Division of General Practice.
The Kimberley presents some unique challenges for pharmacy practice, but [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2008 under Indigenous, Professional Services, Remote health.
Tags: HMR, Indigenous, Kimberley, pharmacy, remote
Comments: 2
Vaccinations by the Pharmacy Chick
The following is part of a long post from a blog called The Pharmacy Chick as she talk about the professional satisfaction and more she receives from vaccinating patients. Written some time ago it has only recently been published in the Auspharm newsletter.
About 5 years ago, the state I live in decided to [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2008 under Remote health.
Tags: pharmacy, vaccinations
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Rural and Remote HMR’s in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia
This is the first in a series of articles about Home Medicine Reviews and how they are, and how they should be done in the bush. They will be run in conjunction with my good friends at Auspharm
For those non-pharmacists, a home medicine review is designed to “assist consumers living at home to maximise the [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Indigenous, Professional Services, Remote health.
Tags: HMR, Indigenous, Kimberley, pharmacy, remote
Comments: 1