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Upcoming Opportunities

Reminder: Register for Legislative Day!

Hello everyone!

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to represent your profession and speak directly to legislators and staff regarding the critical issues facing pharmacists. It is vital that your legislators become more knowledgeable on the role of pharmacy in augmenting healthcare.

Legislative Day is on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. There will be a chartered bus to transport us to Springfield for a fee of $10. Bus space is limited, and, if we exceed capacity, another bus will NOT be ordered. Volunteers may be asked to depart from CSU or MWU. The event lasts all day so make sure you inform your course coordinators that you will be missing class.

Register online at http://www.ichpnet.org/calendar/pharmacy_legislative_day/
If you would like to take a bus with ICHP and APhA, please sign up here
A pdf containing the schedule for the day is available here
You may search for your IL representative at http://bit.ly/ilrepsearch

Also, mark your calendars to attend the ICHP meeting on Tuesday, March 9, for a preparatory session in which we will give some background on the legislation you will be talking about and discuss etiquette for approaching your representatives. More details on this when we get closer.

Feel free to send any questions my way!

Michelle
ICHP Student Representative

Haiti Relief Supplies - Controlled Substances

I received an e-mailed question today regarding Haiti relief supplies that I think may come up with many of you in the days to come.

The question: “Can a hospital pharmacy legally provide/donate controlled substances as part of the relief supplies it sends to Haiti?”

I spoke with Director Dan Gillan of the Import/Export Unit of the DEA in Washington, DC and received the following answer:

There is one way that you may legally supply C-II controlled substances to relief efforts in Haiti. You may supply the C-II’s directly to a physician who is traveling to Haiti in exchange for a DEA form 222. Per normal situations. If the physician is leaving within a few days and does not have 222 forms from the DEA, he/she may contact the DEA directly and they will do an expedited backg! round check and then provide a waiver that allows the physician to supply the 222 form to you upon his/her return from Haiti. Once they have approved the waiver the DEA will ship forms directly to the physician’s office address. All other CS’s (non-IIs) may be supplied to the physician without any other forms. You should keep good records and should know the physician professionally to insure that he/she is in fact going to Haiti.

You may not supply the Red Cross or other relief agencies without the DEA 222 or waiver for later provision. If you have doctors requesting this that don’t have their own 222 forms they can go to http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/disaster_relief.htm and instructions can be found there for the expedited screening.

I hope this information is helpful to many of you and I hope that we are sending our own personal monetary contributions for this critical relief effort!

Have a great weekend and pray the people of Haiti will at least have a safe one!

Scott A. Meyers, RPh, MS, FASHP

Executive Vice President

scottm@ichpnet.org

IPC satisfaction survey

Greetings from the Illinois Poison Center! We are conducting a Health Care Professional Satisfaction Survey. This survey is being conducted to ensure that the IPC is providing the best possible service to our constituents and to determine how we can better support our health care partners. We really want to hear what you have to say.

Please click here to access the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2D3MGHK

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. We know your time is valuable, and want to show our appreciation by giving you the opportunity to enter a random prize drawing for one of three $100 Visa gift cards. To be eligible for a prize, please complete the survey no later than Friday, February 5, 2010.

Please be assured that your responses to the survey will be kept confidential, with no identifying information included in the analysis.

If you have any questions about the survey, please don’t hesitate to contact me at cdeslaur@ilpoison.org.

2010 Under the Dome: Illinois Pharmacy Legislative Day

Registration is open online, via fax and mail for the 4th Annual Under the Dome: Illinois Pharmacy Legislative Day to be held Wednesday, March 10th in Springfield, Illinois. Deluxe motor coaches will be departing from five locations around Illinois to comfortably whisk you there and back for a day of pharmacy education and advocacy! Pre-registration is required and the small fee will cover expenses related to lunch, evening reception and materials. A separate transportation charge applies if you are able to ride on one of the 47-passenger motor coaches departing from Chicago State University, Midwestern University, St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the SIUE School of Pharmacy, and the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. Space is limited on these buses so early registration is strongly suggested.

To register for this event go online at www.ichpnet.org select the Calendar/Events tab and click on Legislative Day. You can register online, print a registration form which may be mailed or faxed to the ICHP office or you may call the ICHP office and register over the telephone at (815) 227-9292.

You won’t want to miss this important and exciting opportunity to learn about and support your profession!

Registration for the ICHP Spring Meeting is now open!

Join us for fabulous educational programming and focus on practice excellence!

Visit the Spring Meeting page for all the meeting details or use the following quick links:

HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEETING:

Keynote Patient Safety Session examining:
- Implementation of a “Just Culture” in a hospital environment
- How the “Just Culture” analyzes and fixes medication errors while being fair to all employees
- How a “Just Culture” develops an organization’s safety culture

Patient Counseling Sessions examining:
- Medication Reconciliation and the Iowa Continuity of Care Study
- Medication-Related Problems and Transitions of Care

Safety Pearls:
- Medication Safety Dashboard
- Investigating a Med Error 101
- Improving Safety in the IV Room

Critical Care Pearls:
- Emerging Roles for Ketamine in the ICU Patient
- Approaches to Delirium in the ICU
- Dexmedetomidine for Sedation in the ICU

Adherence in the new Era of HIV Treatment
New Drugs
Top 4 Papers
Legislative and Regulatory Updates for Illinois Pharmacy
Pharmacy Technician Programming throughout the meeting!

PLUS:

Exhibit Program
Poster Presentations
March Madness PAC Reception

See you there!

ASHP Student Leadership Award

Pharmacy students in their second through fourth professional years are eligible to apply. Applications are due January 30. For more information, please visit www.ashp.org/studentleadershipaward.

ASHP Summer Internship

ASHP offers a competitive ten-week training program in national association management at our headquarters in Bethesda, MD. To be eligible to apply, students must be enrolled in a full-time ACPE-accredited doctor of pharmacy program, be in good academic standing, and have an active membership with ASHP. Applications are due February 1. For more information visit this link.

Letters of recommendation are required for the two above opportunities- start now!

ICHP Spring Meeting Poster Submission

Categories for submission:

Original Presentation: To be considered for acceptance, papers must describe original research in pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, practice innovations in organized health-care settings, administrative practice or cost analysis of pharmaceutical services. Papers must neither have been published in abstract or complete form nor have been presented elsewhere prior to presentation at the ICHP Spring Meeting.

Encore Presentation: Posters may have been presented elsewhere and/or published in abstract or complete form prior to presentation at the ICHP Spring Meeting. To be considered for acceptance, papers must describe research in pharmacotherapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, practice innovations in organized health-care settings, administrative practice or cost analysis of pharmaceutical services. Papers presented before January 1, 2009 are not eligible. Work in progress posters must be updated to include final results and conclusion.

Student Presentation: Original material only. Any material that has already been presented should be entered as an encore presentation. The person primarily responsible for the work must be a current student enrolled in an Illinois School of Pharmacy.

Incentives and Awards:

One author from each abstract accepted for presentation will receive a 50% discount to attend the 2010 ICHP Spring Meeting at the member, early bird rate.

In addition, all accepted submissions will be entered into the poster competition. The original poster winner will receive a plaque and their department will receive a complimentary meeting registration for a future ICHP state-wide meeting within a year, and the encore poster winner will receive a plaque. The student poster competition winner will receive a plaque and their college will receive one meeting registration for a student for a future ICHP state-wide meeting within a year.

Posters will be judged at the ICHP Spring Meeting, Saturday, March 27, 2010, during which time the winners will be announced.

Submission: Please submit abstracts by February 1, 2010. Visit the ICHP website for poster submission here. Please email MFotis@nmh.org if you have any questions.

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