PharmD

Seizing the MTM Opportunity:
What Psychiatric Pharmacists Need to Know

This presentation will focus on how the health care system is changing and how psychiatric pharmacists need to adapt to these changes to be successful.  The objectives for the presentation will be to; a) understand the changing environment, b) adopt terminology that has currency in the new system, c) understand the new rules and regulations, d) be able to recognize success under the new rules, and e) decide which direction for the future is best.  The specific changes that impact psychiatric pharmacists will be presented and the consequences of these changes discussed. Read more about this session.

2010-2011 Psychiatric Pharmacy Review Course - ACPE Credit Only

The Psychiatric Pharmacy Review Course (Review Course) is an excellent course of study and resource for those seeking a review of psychopharmacology and current standards of care. Read more about this session.

Effexor and pregnancy

Hi List. Looking for suggestions.  I have a client who desires to get pregnant.  She is on Effexor, and experiences extreme anxiety when it has been discontinued, and hence was put back on it.  I was assured that the discontinuation was ...

Preoperative and Bowel Prep Order Sets

Hi List, We are a facility which sends out our patients for colonoscopies and other operative procedures, and recently there has been a need for a preprinted preoperative and bowel prep order set. If anyone has any examples to share please email ...

PGY2 Psychiatry Residency Research Project Presentations

Many residents (both PGYI and PGYII) present their work at the CPNP Annual Meeting and do so to meet residency guidelines/requirements. Our abstracts are peer reviewed and get published (with the exception of encores). CPNP is a great venue for ...

Parkinson's Disease guidelines

All- For those of you teaching Parkinson's Disease therapeutics, which set of guidelines are you using:, AAN, NICE or Movement Disorder Society's Task Force? I realize there is alot of overlap.   Thanks! ...

Gabapentin prn anxiety?

Hello List! I have a couple of doctors that have started ordering gabapentin on a prn-basis for anxiety (usually ordered as "gabapentin 400mg q4h prn anxiety"). I haven't been able to find any literature on this. I was wondering if anyone has ...

Procarbazine

Hi all,   Does anyone have any experience with antineoplastic, procarbazine?  Is there anything safe to use in a patient with depression that is on this medication?   From Clinical pharmacology:  Procarbazine ...

Antidepressant induced EPS

Does anyone by chance have any information regarding comparisons between antidepressants in inducing EPS?   Christopher Ching, PharmD Inpatient Pharmacist Kaiser Permanente Behavioral Health Center 3840 Homestead Rd. Santa Clara, CA 95051 ...

Lithium, HD and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

A patient who has chronic kidney disease, who is requires hemodialysis as well as nephrogenic diabetes insipidus from lithium. She has been tried on multiple psychotropic medications over the past 10 years and failed.   The psychiatrist ...