Drug Take Back Program
The stories are lining up for expired drug pick-ups. CAPA’s own Nathan Pope, at Live Oak Pharmacy were able to start a program to collect expired and unwanted prescription medication. You can see other pharmacies are following suit. Look at this report from California:Start spreading the word, disposing of expired and unused medications improves safety of the environment and us as consumers of drinking water. Thank to TPA for providing the link.
Speak out on Bylaw Proposals During June 3 Conference Calls
TPA is hosting some conference calls at off peak times for pharmacists and pharmacy staff to have their voice heard regarding the new proposed bylaws. Make sure to visit their site for more information. Speak out on Bylaw Proposals During June 3 Conference CallsConference Call 1: 7:30 a.m. on June 3 Conference Call 2: 7:30 p.m. on June 3 To participate, dial 1-866-206-0131 and enter pin number 919539#. See Overview of Bylaw Changes If you have questions about the proposed changes to the TPA Bylaws, be sure to participate in the special member forum via conference call on Thursday, June 3. The conference calls will take place twice on June 3 to accommodate members’ varying schedules. Highlights of the proposals will be covered, along with why the changes are necessary. Listen, ask questions and learn more about your Association. The proposed changes will be voted on July 18 by the TPA House of Delegates.
Early registration discount for TPA 2010
Remember that people wanting to be attendees at the 2010 TPA Rxperts Conference and Expo need to register soon if they want to receive an early registration discount.If you visit the TPA website for more information you will see that the deadline is April 14th, 2010. The conference is occurring in July from the 15th to the 18th in Austin, Texas at the Hilton Hotel Downtown. The hotel and the conference are being held in the same location. Please download this brochure for more information and register today!
March 4th Meeting Minutes
The officers of CAPA have decided to publish our meeting minutes so that all CAPA members can view what it is we discuss. It is also a good opportunity for any members to ask questions via the blog. You can always respond using the comment tool below. Once it is posted we will ensure a response int eh comments ourselves or bring it up at the next meeting. You can find the last board meeting notes here.
Next CAPA meeting this Thursday (12/3)
We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the next CAPA meeting this Thursday at Cannoli Joe’s in South Austin. We will be listening to an update to Texas Law from our very own CAPA member Gay Dodson, the Executive Director of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. This educational session will have CE available and keep in mind that the session will be recorded for future use as a webinar CE. This is our joint meeting with AASHP, so please welcome all the new faces, and some regular ones, when you see them in the meeting room. As a reminder, e-mails and letters have been mailed out to renew your TPA memberships. There have been some changes to the renewal process including how you make a contribution to the local association. Please remember to add $30.00 in the appropriate section of the renewal, online or in print, in order for your local CAPA association to receive the dues to keep having these functions. More importantly the money is also used to provide scholarships to the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and for active CAPA members interested in promoting pharmacy advocacy. One of the added benefits to joining TPA this year will be a subscription to the Pharmacist Letter, which many pharmacist consider the best 20 minute read in order to keep up to date in our practice. This is a nice value for the renewal or beginning to your TPA membership. Also, use this opportunity to recruit other pharmacy personnel to the organization and to CAPA. The more members we have the more opportunities we can create for meetings like this one and for other great events in the future. Technicians, Students, Pharmacists and anyone else is welcome to join the association, just send them over to the TPA website for more information. We are looking forward to seeing everyone this week. And for those of you unable to make the event, have a healthy and happy holiday. Marcus — CAPA President
Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery
There is an opportunity for immunization training if you are interested, see below for more details. December 5, 2009 – Fort Worth, Texas Hosted by Texas Pharmacy AssociationProgram Components:
- Provides comprehensive immunization education
- Provides pharmacists with the skills, resources, and materials necessary to establish and promote a successful immunization service
- Trains pharmacists to identify at-risk patient populations needing immunizations and to maintain necessary immunization records
- Reviews basic immunology
More information or to register, CLICK HERE. This course must have 25 registrants by November 20 or will be cancelled.
- 12 hour (1.2 CEU) self-study modules with case studies and assessment exam
- 8.0 hour (0.80 CEU) live seminar with final exam
- Hands-on assessment of intramuscular and subcutaneous injection technique
Next CAPA Meeting, December 3rd
We have our next meeting place and time set and the eVite should be coming out soon. CAPA is proud to announce Continuing Education (CE) to finish out 2009! And an opportunity to welcome AASHP members as we enjoy the evening together. We hope to see you there! We’ll be meeting at Cannoli Joe’s in South Austin. The address shows East 290 but for those of you Austinites, it is known as “west 290″ located between MoPac and S. Lamar on 290/71 south of downtown. A Texas Pharmacy Law Update Presented by: Gay Dodson, Executive Director/Secretary, Texas State Board of Pharmacy Learning Objectives: At the completion of this program, the participant will be able to: 1) Discuss the recent changes to pharmacy laws and rules, and 2) Discuss the current issues faced by the State Board of Pharmacy Agenda: 6:30 PM, Networking and Registration 7:00 PM, Dinner Buffet 7:30 PM, Program: A Texas Pharmacy Law Update 8:30 PM, Question and Answer 9:00 PM, Adjourn Up to 50 participants may register for this event. Cash Bar Self funded by the Capital Area Pharmacy Association. Texas Pharmacy Association (154) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been assigned ACPE number #TBD P/T and is accredited for 1.0 Contact Hours (0.10 CEUs). See our website for more information.
Piano Man, pharmacy style!
Hello all, Marcus here. I am going to be the managing editor and main contributor to our new CAPA Austin Blog beginning September 1st, 2009. Many of our board members will also be making posts to talk about CAPA meeting information, current events, news updates, and anything pharmacy and CAPA related they would like to talk about. I would highly suggest you follow us in a news reader such as Google reader to keep up to date with all of our latest posts. Google will walk you through the entire process for using their news reader. If you do not know what a new reader is, now is the time to learn, in what takes you hours to get information on the internet can be reduced to minutes with the use of a ‘.rss’ reader. I am looking forward to our future meetings at CAPA and to our TPA conference in 2010 which will be held in our own town, Austin, TX. If you would like to leave any comments to any of our posts, please do so by clicking on the link that follows the post, “Leave a Comment” you would like to comment on. I wanted to end this post with a video. I stumbled upon this video from a college of pharmacy somewhere in the US, but I wanted to share it with everyone. It reminds a lot of UT Austin’s Pharmacy Follies. If you have a pharmacy related song or video you would like to share with the rest of CAPA, do not hesitate to contact us at blog@capa-austin.org. We can ALL relate to this video. Enjoy everyone: Music starts at around 1:13 Pharmacy Man
Last Day at TPA 2009Our closing day at TPA was a dandy.
Nathan Pope and Marcus Stavchansky presented their Hot Topic continuing education seminar along with several other presenters from the TPA RLI (RxPerts Leadership Institute). The talk had a lot of discussion from the audience and it really provided some great information for all who attended.
We spent time at the Delegation meeting discussing the revisions or rewrite of the CAPA Bylaws. This discussion was to say the least long winded, but it is great to see discussion actually happening. Times are changing for the profession and all of us need to be prepared for what comes ahead for the profession of pharmacy.
At the closing session we saw the changing of the guard. Bill Moore passed on his duties to Gene Adams and all the board of directors were sworn in for their responsibilities for the association in the coming year.
We had a closing session with a motivational speaker who used the sounds of his guitar, and skillful playing to ask the questions ‘What If?’ and ‘Why not?’
What a great weekend to meet colleagues and old friends. We also had the opportunity to see where our profession is headed in the state of Texas.
In the end we all learned that it is up to us, the pharmacy community, to dictate where our profession should go. The worst thing you can do is sit down and do nothing. We need to continue our local association meetings, like CAPA. We need to grow the membership and more importantly we need to get that membership more active within teh pharmacy community.
Thank you TPA for hosting a great event. The Capital Area Pharmacy Association is looking forward to representing the event in Austin next year. Mark Zamutt will be serving as chair representative for the TPA event in 2010.
Don’t forget you can follow us on our twitter feed @CAPA_Austin and now follow us on Facebook by friending us and joining the CAPA group. We will soon be moving over to a fan page which will allow us to have more presence in the facebook community in a more organized manner.
1st Day at TPAWe enjoyed our first full day of the conference at TPA.
The opening session was a passing of the guard from Jim Martin to Joe DaSilva as the new CEO/Executive director for the Texas Pharmacy Association. We also heard from our current president Bill Moore, R.Ph. the current president of TPA.
There were several Educational sessions to attend to throughout the morning and afternoon.
Additionally there were delegation meetings to discuss bylaws and resolutions that were of interest to the members that were attending.
We wrapped up the day at the Exhibit Hall showcase where we visited the various sponsors of the event and the new and exciting products for pharmacy practice that they made available. There was food, fun, and lots of people to meet.
We are looking forward to the second day of sessions and more time to network with colleagues from all over the state.
Don’t forget that we have a twitter feed that you can follow by clicking the image below:
We attempted some live microblogging during the keynote of the opening session. Tell me what you think?
More posts to come after Day 2 at TPA.
