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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

The value of ethics coursework The value of ethics coursework

The value of ethics coursework

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Imagine you are a pharmacist working on an interdisciplinary team that is treating a patient for severe opioid dependence. The idea arises to treat the addiction by slowly replacing the active drug with an inert substance, such as lactose, without the consent of the patient. As the pharmacist, it is your responsibility to compound these capsules where the amount of active drug is slowly tapered until the capsules are entirely lactose. Is it ethically permissible for the pharmacist to knowingly deceive the patient to treat the underlying addiction? What duties to the patient come into...
Things are getting hectic Things are getting hectic

Things are getting hectic

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Welcome back as we journey through these last few months of pharmacy school. As APPE rotations are winding down and graduation is nearing, there is more excitement than I am capable of describing. Close to a decade of college and professional school and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. And let me tell you something, I have...
Pharmacogenomics in practice Pharmacogenomics in practice

Pharmacogenomics in practice

As an undergraduate student in my genetics class, I pondered if the subject would actually have applications in pharmacy school. Between...
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Exercise leadership during rotations Exercise leadership during rotations

Exercise leadership during rotations

How many times have you tried to get in touch with a prescriber to sort out an issue regarding a prescription, only to be on the receiving end of...
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On a mission to transition care On a mission to transition care

On a mission to transition care

“I can’t afford that medication, but I need something to help me.” A patient, “John,” had been recently seen for...
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A year of telling stories A year of telling stories

A year of telling stories

March in San Francisco was warmer than I expected, being used to the chill back home in Ohio. As the 2017 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition was...
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Adapting supplemental instruction to PharmD programs Adapting supplemental instruction to PharmD programs

Adapting supplemental instruction to PharmD programs

This fall, as second-year PharmD candidates at the California Northstate University College of Pharmacy (CNUCOP), we were chosen to be student...
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Make Your Mark, Part 2 Make Your Mark, Part 2

Make Your Mark, Part 2

When I was the 2012–13 APhA–ASP National President, my presidential theme was Make Your Mark. 
During my speech at the 2012 APhA...
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Sometimes quitting isn’t such a bad thing Sometimes quitting isn’t such a bad thing

Sometimes quitting isn’t such a bad thing

The University of Florida (UF) College of Pharmacy is proud to have made an impact on smoking cessation in three different cities in the state: Jacksonville, Orlando, and Gainesville. By tabling at health screenings, spreading the word through social media, and teaching patients the consequences of smoking, we have educated and led our communities in an aspect of patient care that some might...
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