Wednesday, December 6 | 11 a.m. CST
Implementing USP <797>
Learn how to successfully implement revised USP <797> guidelines in your course, program, or business. In this webinar, industry expert Lisa McCartney, MEd, CPhT, PhTR will cover the nuances of regional requirements and help you navigate potential barriers. PLUS, get a brief overview of Paradigm’s Sterile Compounding & Aseptic Technique, Second Edition, which aligns with USP <797> (USP-NF 2023, Issue 1) and USP <800> (USP43-NF38).
Presenter
Lisa McCartney MEd, CPhT, PhTR
Lisa has been a certified instructor in sterile compounding and aseptic technique (SCAT) since 1997, and is the lead educator responsible for training certified SCAT Instructors throughout the U.S. through the ACPE accredited continuing pharmacy education (CPE) providership at Austin Community College (ACC). She is the department chair for the ASHP/ACPE-accredited pharmacy technician program at ACC, where she also serves as the CPE administrator for the program’s ACPE providership. She has been educating and training pharmacy technicians since 1999 and has worked as a pharmacy technician for more than 40 years, with over 15 years as a lead IV trainer and pharmacy supervisor in a level I trauma center. She became a PTCB-certified pharmacy technician in 1995 and has been registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy (TSBP) since 2005. She received her pharmacy technician AAS degree from Weatherford College, Weatherford, Texas in 2008. In 2011, she received her BAAS degree in occupational education, and in 2013 her master’s degree in education from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Lisa is a 2011 International NISOD Award winner for Teaching and Leadership Excellence. In 2012, she received the Roy Kemp award from the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council, and in 2013, the Mike Knapp award from the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Lisa has served in leadership positions on the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council and the technician executive committee for the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and has served on the PTCB Sterile Compounding Task Force, PTCB Stakeholders Conference, and the TSBP Sterile Compounding Task Force. Lisa co-authored Paradigm’s Pharmacy Labs for Technicians and is the author of the first edition of Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Technique.
Second Edition Coming Soon
In the second edition of Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Technique, all sterile compounding procedures are aligned with revised USP <797> (USP-NF 2023, Issue 1) and USP <800> (USP43-NF38).
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