Transitions

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.

Friday, November 12, 2021 0 12538

We hear you! Your pharmacy workplace is stressed and stretched. You have rapidly growing concerns for patient safety. Still, you are there—every day—to care for your patients despite conditions that seem to be working against you.

APhA members unite to advocate for pharmacy patients

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 0 28844

APhA members representing 31 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia gathered last week to flex their political muscles at the organization’s first virtual congressional conference. Over the course of the 3-day conference, participants got a crash course on crucial pharmacy practice legislation, worked with colleagues on...

Federal government makes two announcements with major pharmacy...

September 9, 2021, was a busy day for the federal government and pharmacy stakeholders alike: Just a few hours apart, we saw significant...

North Dakota, which once lost its fight to regulate PBM practices, gets...

At the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) and North Dakota delivered oral arguments...

Highest-ranking pharmacist elected to state office in the country is...

Native Delawarean Kathleen McGuiness, RPh, went from owner of a small independent pharmacy in the city of Rehoboth Beach, DE, to Delaware State...

The federal government needs drug price solutions. We’ve got their back.

Earlier this month, HHS was working on an aggressive deadline. President Joe Biden had given them 45 days to develop a comprehensive plan to lower...

Calling balls and strikes on PBMs—and the other players, too

It should be abundantly clear that APhA has several bones to pick with big pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). These PBMs, operating under the guise...

If it’s broken, take a stand and fix it

Bad, broken systems thrive on apathy and inaction. As recent events both inside and outside pharmacy have taught us, it’s on each of us to...

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Pharmacy needs payment reform to thrive. We’re fighting for it on two fronts.

This week marked the end of my first year as CEO of APhA. From the moment I stepped into APhA headquarters, the World Home of Pharmacy, I was humbled by this amazing organization and all that APhA has accomplished in its 169-year history.

Transitions Magazine

Workplace conditions and well-being

APhA members unite to advocate for pharmacy patients

Federal government makes two announcements with major pharmacy...

North Dakota, which once lost its fight to regulate PBM practices, gets...

Highest-ranking pharmacist elected to state office in the country is...

The federal government needs drug price solutions. We’ve got their back.

Calling balls and strikes on PBMs—and the other players, too

If it’s broken, take a stand and fix it

Pharmacy needs payment reform to thrive. We’re fighting for it on two fronts.