Mental health survey phase 2 launched
Last year, rPS launched its Mental health and Wellbeing Survey 2020, working closely with the profession's charity Pharmacist Support.
The two organisations conducted a mental health and wellbeing survey to understand the mental health and wellbeing of the workforce in 2019.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the survey found that 80 per cent of the workforce was at high risk of burnout and that 50 per cent was reconsidering a career in pharmacy.
now, in light of the increased stresses and strains caused by the fallout from cOVID-19, the survey has been updated to assess the significant
impact of cOVID-19 on pharmacists and their teams.
Participation in the survey is optional and completely anonymous, and rPS is interested in hearing from everyone in the profession, including students. The survey is not restricted to members of rPS.
no one will be asked for their membership number or any other identifying information, and none of this information will be passed from rPS to anyone else in a way that can identify individual members.
For more information, visit:
www.rpharms.com/about- us/news/details/Workforce-wellbeing- second-annual-survey
new guideline for bacterial uTI in adult women
In Scotland, urinary tract infections are, according to The Scottish Intercollegiate guideline network (SIgn), the second most commonly- reported indication for an antibiotic prescription in the community after respiratory tract infection.
now, SIgn has issued a new guideline on the management of suspected bacterial lower urinary tract infection in adult women.
One of the main changes in this latest, updated guideline is that women aged 16–64 years are now included, as are women of any age using an indwelling, intermittent or suprapubic catheter. It also includes the diagnosis and management of recurrent uTI in these groups.
The guideline will probably be of particular interest to community pharmacists treating uTI’s as part of the new nhS Pharmacy First service in Scotland.
The SIgn guideline states that, in terms of diagnosis: • Where incontinence is a feature, causes other than uTI should be
considered, for example prolapse, voiding dysfunction or functional impairment • Pharmacists should be aware that women aged 65 years and over, especially those in long-term care facilities, may not display the usual symptoms and signs of uTI that are seen in younger women • as such, pharmacists should be aware that functional deterioration and/or changes to performance of activities of daily living may be indicators of infection in frail older people.
a holistic assessment, say SIgn, is needed in the frail elderly to rule out other causes with both classical and non-classical signs of uTI, since dehydration, constipation, electrolyte abnormality, polypharmacy, pain and urinary retention may all lead to functional decline.
Sepsis, non-urinary infections and other causes of delirium should also be considered in an unwell older adult with abnormal vital signs (for example, fever,
tachycardia, hypotension, respiratory rate and saturations).
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