Celebrating Pharmacy Awareness Month
by Communications
As part of Pharmacy Awareness Month, TBRHSC pharmacy staff hosted tours of the pharmacy to showcase what they do, and how they do it. Above, a group of nursing students got an inside look at the day to day operations of a busy pharmacy.Each year, Pharmacy Awareness Month is celebrated in March as a way to educate Canadians about the contributions pharmacists make in the delivery of health care. Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) helped celebrate the great strides the profession has made and all the ways pharmacy positively impacts patients and families.
TBRHSC Pharmacy Facts:
- There are 22 pharmacists working at TBRHSC
- Pharmacists have a minimum of 5 years of university of education
- 26 certified Pharmacy Technicians work at TBRHSC
- TBRHSC pharmacy technicians and pharmacists process approximately 1200 prescriptions per day during the week and 900 prescriptions per day on the weekends
- TBRHSC welcomes Pharmacy students from University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Dalhousie University, University of Manitoba, as well as several colleges for the Certified Pharmacy Technician Program.
