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Is there some sort of way that'll help me to easily memorize how to calculate the days supply for items such as eye drops and insulin?
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So, I consider myself to be pretty good at basic math and algebra (which is pretty basic I suppose), but when it comes to calculating the days supplies for things like eye drops and insulin, I almost never remember how to calculate the days supply for them. What was the way you guys got it to stick in your mind?
By the way, I'm not a Tech yet, I'm a pharmacy cashier. I can do stuff like typing up prescriptions/giving them out, aged rx, use the immunization selection tool, and I can sometimes fill if the older tech whose usually on the register doesn't have a crazy. Other stuff, I don't have access to yet, due to my title.
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For insulin, multiply the units/mL times the total mLs, then divide by units/day, e.g.:
Humalog U-100 20mL, sig: inject 20 units TID
100 Units/mL * 20mL = 2000 units
2000 units / 60 units/day = 33.3 days
By the way, if you don't have a tech license, you shouldn't be typing scripts or filling. If you do have a tech license, congrats! You're a tech already, even if they don't call you that. Though I would be bugging them to make you a tech just fire the increase in pay.
What days supply do you type up??
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QUESTION for y’all.... Doctor wrote prescription for #100 Accu-Chek Test Strips and Lancets directions: “Use to test blood sugar once daily”
How many days supply do you type and process to Medicare Part B and/or if they have Medicare Part D for??
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Depends, how invested are you in avoiding insurance audits? It it's an independent and an audit comes back to you or taking the loss could threaten the business and therefore your job I would either fill a box of 50 for 50 days or 3 boxes of 25 as a 75 day supply. If you work for a chain and are a sane person just bill 100 as 90.
Antibiotic supply gone from bad to worse, say pharmacists : ukpolitics
Main Post: Antibiotic supply gone from bad to worse, say pharmacists : ukpolitics
I know they say housing in Vancouver is a "supply issue" but as a lifelong Vancouverite, something doesn't add up to me...
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Okay so maybe I am very wrong on this, I am very willing to accept that. But this low supply issue thing seems odd to me. It seems like we keep saying we need to build more and more and more and more housing, but it'll never, ever be enough.
Back in the early 90's when I grew up, everybody lived in a single detached home. I knew very few people who had apartments. It wasn't necessarily a wealth thing; I had friends who had single mothers who were definitely not rich, and they rented big west side homes to themselves.
People would have big houses with basements, their own bedroom, big yard, etc. This was the norm. And this was in the City of Vancouver, not the suburbs.
So this all seemed pretty normal until the 2000's when I'd see more and more people moving into apartments. Now granted, apartments have existed in Vancouver forever, so I'm not saying it's a new concept . But the single family home could coexist in the city and nobody would bat an eye.
Now areas where they used to have rows of single family homes (think along Cambie Street near Oakridge) have all been torn down and in their place are huge apartment buildings. So from an area where say, 100 people lived (a big row of homes), you can now house several hundred on the same lot.
And in Burnaby, all the affordable wood-framed low-rises are being knocked down to build gigantic towers, which can house way more people.
And we're blaming the zoning of SFH areas to not allow multiple family dwellings for this. It's apparently a supply issue.
Okay, fair, we have more and more people in the city, but at what point do we not have enough room for everybody? No matter how many apartment buildings or condo towers they build, it's never enough. Hell, we've developed areas that were nothing just years ago. Look at South East Marine Drive, the River District. From swampland to whole communities in a few short years.
So how did we go from single family homes being pretty normal to "Oh my God even though we knocked down those SFH and built big towers in their place, it's not enough" ?
The growth of the GVRD is spread out to the suburbs, naturally. And if you look at GVRD on a map, it's gigantic in size. And yet big towers everywhere and we can't house 2.5 million people?
The GVRD is almost 4x the size of New York City.
So unless far more of these homes are empty than we think, it doesn't seem like the influx of population is the problem. 10 years ago areas in the suburbs which were just dirt had changed to have thousands of homes.
Unless I am missing the big picture here. It seems odd that as recently as 20 years ago the SFH seemed like no big deal and now vast apartment blocks standing where they once stood aren't enough to fill housing demand.
To me it seems more like an abundance of apartments that nobody can afford anyways. Look at Burnaby again. People would be able to afford big apartments in 4-story wood-frame walkups. Then those get knocked down to create a much bigger tower in its place, and then nobody can afford to lie in those. So did you fix the housing issue? Well the people in the low-density low-rise wouldn't say so, they can't afford to live there anymore.
Top Comment: Take a look at a zoning map instead of going off your gut instincts. The vast majority of Vancouver bans apartments, same with the suburbs. “big towers everywhere” is nowhere close to true, we can’t even build 4 storey apartments or townhouses most places. Your instincts that things were OK in the 1990s are off. There have been hard-fought battles to allow more housing going back to WW2 , and a cursory search of newspaper archives reveals frequent mentions of a housing crisis back to the 1960s . Ultimately our zoning forces most of Vancouver to look the same way it did ~100 years ago. This doesn’t work when a whole lot more people want to live here today.
Is it profitable to, supply, say, SXP, then borrow, then supply, borrow etc?
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While the difference between supply and borrow will be negative, with the XVS rewards this is profitable. I tested it and the system allows it, can anyone explain why this couldn't be done just to farm XVS?
There should be no risk of liquidation as you are not selling SXP and it's not leaving the system, price up or down will move borrow limit and borrow balance together.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but how would you repay your borrowed SXP. Because if you supply it you can only get it back if you pay off the loan. It will also always be a smaller and smaller amount that you can loan out. The only way you can repay that loan would be with the farmed XVS tokens. So you would need to sell the XVS tokens for SXP. But if for example SXP shoots up in price and XVS doesn't you can't buy enough SXP to pay off your loan. In the other case if XVS goes up and SXP doesn't you can maybe pay it off.
Also something to take in mind is that the farming of XVS will stop in the near future if I'm correct.
I'm new to all of this so I could be missing something.
Supply Chain Rumors Say RTX 2060 Has Been Discontinued, Again
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Top Comment: It'd be hilarious if they "brought it back" another time.
Fungal attacks threaten global food supply, say experts
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Related to collapse because Fast-rising fungal attacks on the world’s most important crops threaten the planet’s future food supply, scientists have said, warning that failing to tackle fungal pathogens could lead to a “global health catastrophe”
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Somewhat ironically the image they've chosen to illustrate this article with appears to be corn smut, Ustilago maydis, which is a delicacy that carries a higher price than the corn itself. In Mexico it is known as Huitlacoche.
Some farmers have actively tried to grow it for these reasons by attempting to deliberately infect their crops. Though granted if it became more common you'd be losing all the calories the corn provides and the price would be reduced. I think various rust fungi are the bigger issue though but they don't make for such interesting photos...
Personally I think one way to try to deal with the issue of fungal diseases in crops would be to deliberately cultivate them alongside beneficial fungi. If the soil is already inoculated and well colonised by other fungi then the problematic ones, many of which spend part of their life cycle in the soil, would have a harder time spreading. Whereas when we grow monocultures fed just by vast quantities of ammonium nitrate the soil microbiome is degraded so the problematic fungi lack as much competition. You might even be able to squeeze some more calories out of the field if the fungi chosen to inoculate it with was a species which produced edible mushrooms, though this may only be viable with smaller scale cultivation.
Hotel supply online? A bunch of you say you save money by buying towels and other home goods through hotel supply stores. How? Do I need to be a wholesaler to do this?
Main Post: Hotel supply online? A bunch of you say you save money by buying towels and other home goods through hotel supply stores. How? Do I need to be a wholesaler to do this?
Top Comment: You do not need to be a wholesaler. I buy from National Hospitality Supply, they have AWESOME towels (I order from the Williams Bay Gold line) and the prices are good, but they're generally sold by the dozen so keep that in mind. I do run a b&b, but didn't have to provide any business info to order and actually placed my first order with them before the business even existed. Good service, good prices, awesome towels- just go to their website and order like any other online purchase. I've also ordered from Mayfair Hotel Supply and they're fine as well, but NatHosp(dot com) is my usual go-to.
(Rant?) Just got an isolated power supply. All I can say is WOW.
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After much procrastination, I finally decided to leave the random wall warts I found around the house and buy an isolated power supply. I was a little skeptical at first, thinking that people who talk about how they reduce hum are just exaggerating. This all changed the instant I turned on my circuit with the power supply in place.
Wow. All I could say was wow. My compressor used to have a pretty loud hum that kept me from using anything more than moderate sustain/level, but it's practically dead silent unless I turn up the sustain/level knobs real high. Even then, it's only a mild hiss that's easily masked by simply playing.
My Big Muff with tone wicker also made so much noise on the wall wart+daisy chain setup that I asked if it was normal on this week's No Stupid Questions Thread. Again, it's almost dead silent now.
I'm not sure if it's just a placebo effect, but I also feel like I'm getting a lot more treble and clarity with the new power supply. Is it possible that wall warts+daisy chains can reduce treble and cause volume loss?
Anyway, if anyone is debating on getting an isolated power supply, I would absolutely recommend getting one. I always thought "I could buy another pedal with that money," but I have to say that this was my best for the money/most satisfying purchase yet.
Edit: I do have to ask: the power supply itself is making a high-pitched ringing sound. Is this normal, or is it going to explode anytime soon and should I ask for a replacement?
Top Comment: I got a CS12 recently after daisy chaining for years. Isolated power is now the #1 thing I recommend to guitarists
Intercepting supply ships, you say?
Main Post: Intercepting supply ships, you say?
Top Comment: I first flew the F-22A on that mission, thinking I was hot sh*t catching up to the supply ships so easily. Flying a speedy little MiG-31B on my next sortie I felt like I was going to overshoot the damn things.
Let’s say LUNC gets back to a $40B market cap. The circulating supply will have to go from 6.9 trillion to 40 billion, a reduction in supply of 6.86 trillion or 99.42% of the supply for 1 LUNC to = $1. How long is it going to take for a 1.2% burn rate to burn through 99.42% of the supply?
Main Post: Let’s say LUNC gets back to a $40B market cap. The circulating supply will have to go from 6.9 trillion to 40 billion, a reduction in supply of 6.86 trillion or 99.42% of the supply for 1 LUNC to = $1. How long is it going to take for a 1.2% burn rate to burn through 99.42% of the supply?
Top Comment: Why are u so keen on $1. If lunc gets to 0.01 or 0.1, aint that great success?, #0.00000000999 to 0.000028, then to 0.01 0.1. If it gets to 0.1 this year, tell me one crypto project that had achieved such in months since u got into crypto. How many months did it take the almighty shib to smash 5 zeros?. You guys should stop these craze as if lunc must get to a dollar to be tagged a success.