[Pharmwaste] ASHP Conference in Orlando

Janet Brown janethbrown at verizon.net
Tue May 9 12:26:48 EDT 2006


Hello, FYI. Does anyone know who's presenting this session listed below? I
left a message for the conference organizer and will report back if I hear
back. jb

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814 

301-657-3000 - Conference in Orlando, FL, June 2006
www.ashp.com/meetings/summer/program

2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
What Every Pharmacist Needs to Know About Pharmaceutical Waste Management
Program #204-000-06-106-L04           (2.5 Contact Hours)

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the effect of waste pharmaceuticals in the environment. 
Discuss state and federal attention and enforcement activity involving
pharmaceutical waste. 
Describe the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as it applies to
pharmaceutical waste. 
Discuss the JCAHOR Environment of Care Standards that apply to
pharmaceutical waste. 
List the steps involved in designing and implementing a hazardous
pharmaceutical waste management program. 
Identify a process of examining and updating their organization's current
pharmacy waste management policies and procedures. 

Janet Brown
Partner Coordinator
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
PO Box 3366
Amherst, MA 01004
413/253-0254
janet.brown at h2e-online.org
www.h2e-online.org 

Janet Brown is a member of the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC) Steering
Committee. The GGHC is the first and only sustainable design, construction,
and operations toolkit tailored to the health care industry. For more
information, visit www.gghc.org.



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