Pharmacists play a vital role in educating patients and their caregivers about prescription opioids. Allied Against Opioid Abuse (AAOA), a national initiative for education and awareness to prevent the abuse and misuse of prescription opioids, commissioned a poll and found more than 70 percent of respondents said detailed instructions from pharmacists ...
The EMS Today Hands-on Experience is in its third year as a one-of-a-kind experience of interactive learning lab and clinical challenge. Participants visit formative scenario learning labs, where as a group they will use the latest equipment, supplies, and technology to demonstrate real-life simulation training. These formative group labs provide a ...
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, for men and women; about 630,000 Americans die from heart disease each year – that’s one in four deaths. Students in healthcare education can learn the risk factors of coronary heart disease (CHD) and communicate with their patients for better health outcomes.
This post was updated Jan. 11, 2020, with information regarding vaccine administration during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August of 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Safety (HHS) announced that it would authorize licensed pharmacists to administer all vaccines recommended by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...
Simulation in Healthcare Education
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