108th Annual Convention Education Highlights

Here are some exciting educational programs from the NCPA 108th Annual Convention and Trade Exposition in Las Vegas.

Handouts from selected convention programs:

• Survival Spanish for Pharmacists PDF (1.5M)
  
  
• Creating a Community Pharmacy Majority—Keys to a Successful Grassroots Movement PDF (87k)
  
  
• Medication Therapy of Your Pain Patients PDF (752k)
  
  
• Thinking Way Outside the Box—Advanced Marketing Strategies for Independents PDF (1M)
  
  
• Caring for Your Patients the Compounding Pharmacist PDF (1M)
  
  
• Niche Marketing for Your Long Term Care Pharmacy PDF (137k)
  
  
• The 2006 NCPA-Pfizer Digest: Executive Summary and Management Tool PDF (631k)
  
  
• Addressing the Sale of an Independent Pharmacy: Issues That Impact Transition in a Rapidly Changing Environment PDF (155k)
  
  
• Medicare Part D Audits—What You Need to Know How to Avoid Trouble PDF (1.4M)
  
  
• Insurance for Your Pharmacy—Does Your Coverage Cover You? PDF (2.7M)
  
  
• Forecasting the Financial Impact of Medicaid on Your Independent Community Pharmacy PDF (121k)
  
  
• Better The Devil You Know Than The Devil You Don't—Medicare D: The Real Story on Profit and Cash Flow Impacts PDF (253k)
  
  
• Successful Exit Strategies for Ownership Transfer—A Practitioner Panel PDF (146k)
  
  
• Guess What? You're Already in the Home Health Care Business PDF (208k)
  
  
• Global Issues in Compounding—Changes that will Affect Your Business PDF (154k)
  
  
• Prescription for Profits: Practical Tools to Assess the Financial Health of Your Pharmacy PDF (251k)
  
  
• Grading Your Store: The Store Report Card PDF (123k)
  
  
• Turning a Challenge into an Opportunity: How to Succeed with Competitive Bidding PDF (210k)
  
  
• The Pharmacy Top Ten Reading List: The Policies and Procedures Manual PDF (277k)
  
  
• Putting Your Best Books Forward: How to Prepare Your Practice for a Sale or a Loan PDF (247k)
  
  
• How to Conduct an Effective Medication Therapy Management Session in the Community Pharmacy PDF (320k)
  
  
• New Drug Review PDF (131k)
  
  
• When Disaster Strikes: Emergency Preparedness for the Community Pharmacy PDF (1.5M)
  
  
• Motivating Patients with CARE* Improving Patient Health Through Effective Communications PDF (4.6M)
  
  
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM)—Myth Vs. Reality PDF (112k)

• Update of Current Trends in Type 2 Diabetes: An Expanding Role of Insulin Therapy (sponsored by Novo Nordisk)—coming soon!
  
  
• Counseling Patients on the Use of Smoking Cessation Drug Therapy: An Update on Persistence and Adherence (sponsored by Pfizer)—coming soon!
  
  
• Opportunities in Pharmacy: Adult Immunizations and the Vaccination Niche in the Community Pharmacy (sponsored by Merck)—coming soon!
  
  
• Medicare Part D - Changes in 2007 That Will Affect Your Community Pharmacy Practice (sponsored by Community Care Rx)—coming soon!
  
  
• Changing the Face of Pharmacy - A Call to Action—coming soon!
  
  
• Compliance and Persistence in the Adult Asthma Patient (sponsored by AstraZeneca)—coming soon!
  
  
• Standard of Care: Thyroid Disease Treatment from the Clinic to the Pharmacy (sponsored by Abbott)—coming soon!