Agnese Liepina, O’Rourke’s Allcare Pharmacy, Monasterevin
Agnese always strives for high standards in her work and is constantly thinking of new ways to improve the services offered at her pharmacy. Outside of her daily duties as a pharmacy technician, Agnese has also shown her compassion as a patient advocate. This year, Agnese recognised that many of her pharmacy’s blister pack patients were also collecting ostomy products each month and decided she wanted to learn more about these products so that she would have better understanding of her patient’s needs. On her own initiative, Agnese enrolled in and completed an online course in ostomy care in the community pharmacy setting, and now brings a wealth of knowledge to this area of the pharmacy’s service.
Denise McEvoy, St Gabriel’s Pharmacy, Clontarf
Denise McEvoy has been working in St Gabriel’s pharmacy for over 20 years. She has championed continued learning for the other staff members in the pharmacy and has taken it upon herself to ensure staff continue to learn through 4Front Pharmacy online training. She has dedicated her working life to pharmacy & always goes above and beyond to help our patients and work colleagues. Denise worked tirelessly through COVID & continues to improve the health outcomes of her patients on a daily basis. She can often be found delivering medication to vulnerable patients after she has finished work.
Darren Power, Meaghers Pharmacy, Dublin
Darren Power is one of the longest serving technicians in Meaghers Pharmacy Group, working with them since 2018. Having started in his first position as an OTC Assistant, he was immediately drawn to learning more about medicines and how he could help patients directly with their various medications and ailments when they came to the pharmacy. It was Darren’s keen desire to learn more that spurred him to start training as a technician. Darren has a continued drive to keep developing and continuing to learn and has built strong relationships with suppliers, which has benefitted the pharmacy greatly.
Tracey Stack, McCauley’s Health & Beauty Pharmacy, Pharmacy, Manor West Tralee
The role of pharmacy and most especially pharmacy technician has evolved over the past number of years. Pharmacy technicians now play a pivotal role in the provision of healthcare as the role of the Pharmacist has become broadened. Tracey has proven to be a huge support to the pharmacists in Tralee utilizing her computer skills and completing all paperwork involved in the role out of the vaccination service we provide to the community. She has adapted to the current demands of the pharmacy and played a vital role in rearranging the pharmacy in order to increase the space for dispensed prescriptions due to the increase in electronic prescriptions.
Leann Dunne, Adrian Dunne Pharmacy Baldoyle
Leann has been the driving force behind the overhaul of the Adrian Dunne Baldoyle pharmacy dispensary which has significantly improved the efficiency of the teams’ work and has allowed them to further improve patient care in the pharmacy. Leann has been heavily involved with engaging with the local community, especially the most vulnerable that need help in her local community and has been behind the co-ordination of the pharmacy’s delivery service. Leann is an extremely committed and reliable member of the pharmacy team. She is caring, compassionate and will always go out of her way to help a customer.
Nuala McConnon, Dunaree Pharmacy, Kingscourt Cavan
Nuala McConnon is one of the longest serving members of stgaff at Dunaree Pharmacy in Kingscourt, with other staff members looking to her for guidance and advice. She is described as dedicated and reliable and an integral part of the safe delivery of medication during the pandemic. Nuala was responsible for establishing the pharmacy’s vaccination clinics in sister pharmacy, Callans and regularly set-up coffee mornings and awareness days for the Irish Kidney Association before Covid-19. “Nuala always goes above and beyond,” says one of her team members.
Claire Hickey, Hickey’s Pharmacy Thurles
Claire Hickey is a team member who consistently drives innovation. She recently took the very innovative decision to start using enviropharm fully compostable grip seal bags. Her pharmacy was the first pharmacy in Thurles to set the bar for a more sustainable green future. These bags can be sanitised and reused. If someone does not want to reuse the bag they can discarded in the food bin which allows it to be converted into soil or fertiliser. There is a huge amount of waste in the pharmacy world and Claire wanted to combat this and to help Hickey’s pharmacy to become a green more sustainable business.
Deirdre Doherty, O’Donnell’s totalhealth Pharmacy, Gweedore
One of the most relied-upon members of staff, Deirdre is regularly described as dedicated, adaptable, reliable, motivated, and hard-working. She has impeccable people skills and is a true team-player. She leads by example within the team, she never seems to stop working trying to find ways we can operate more efficiently. Deirdre works longer hours than the normal shop day. She continues after work and often on days off when duty calls. She has proud community spirit and puts everyone else’s needs before her own, especially the customer and patient.
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