Doctor of Pharmacy

interactions, and side effects of medication. A pharmacist must understand the use, clinical effects, and composition of drugs, including their chemical, biological, and physical properties. Although you usually only see a pharmacist after visiting the doctors, or while inside of a retail drugstore, they can be found in nursing homes, mental health institutions, and even inside of stores like Target and Walgreens. When you’ve been prescribed a drug, and you’re waiting…

APPEs, pharmacy organizations, and work at CVS. I will develop professionalism in my classes by learning about the profession in general, how to make an ethically sound decision, and completing community service. I will learn about the profession in general through Dean Spooner’s Introduction to Pharmacy class. In the class we have learned about the changes in pharmacy and how these have impacted the profession as a whole. We are also getting to know about all of the different pharmacy pathways…

You wake up fully rejuvenated and you are ready to begin your day as a pharmacist. You start off your day filling prescriptions for people and making sure it is the dosage for their condition or problem. Next you make sure that all of your pharmacy technicians are doing their jobs correctly. Finally, you get to go home and be with your family. The career as a pharmacist seems to be the right career for me, I’ve always wanted to be one, You need a high prestigious level of education which is…

I am a registered pharmacy technician and have practised in community pharmacy for almost 6 years in the UK. The services that the pharmacy was providing were like where I had previously worked and all the standard operating procedures were similar. However, during the placement, I could see the pharmacist’s point of view rather than a technician and how the role of the pharmacist is different from that of a pharmacy technician. The pharmacist’s role was more focused on the clinical aspect,…

Ambitions, dreams and why I think pharmacy is the best career for me. Pharmacy is an interesting, highly trusted and ever changing profession that plays a vital part in the health care system. The main purpose of this profession is to improve an individual 's quality of life. In order to prepare for such a lifelong commitment to society, I need to have a degree as a doctor of pharmacy. During my undergraduate studies my main goal was to succeed in my course work and eventually transfer into…

to the doctor's’ office to get a check up. During your medical visit, he or she hands you a piece of paper. The paper consists of the medication that you need to use in order to feel better. You then drive to your nearest pharmacy to redeem the prescription signed by the doctor. But the pharmacist refused to fill your prescription up. They might’ve said they didn’t want to due to religious and ethic matter. The next thought they might pop up is, “Isn’t this illegal?” you can't use you omlll…

The career of pharmacy has interested me ever since I was a little girl and this has been one of my passions ever since. Some of the different pharmacy careers that really stood out and interested me are community pharmacy, pharmacy opportunities in rural communities, ambulatory care clinics, and medication therapy management programs. A community pharmacy is a healthcare facility that focuses on providing services to a single specific community within an area. A community pharmacist is…

environment, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. I understand their individual roles and how they work together and this will certainly benefit me when I become a pharmacist. Moreover, because I have experience working in a laboratory, I know how to use diverse instruments, how to run different specimens, and how to interpret the results. These are the very basics of science. Already possessing these skills and this knowledge will give me an advantage when I study pharmacy,…

As strange as it may sound, my first encounter with pharmacy happened even before I learned how to speak. In Vietnam, there is this spiritual First Birthday ceremony by which all one-year-olds must pick an item such as a stethoscope or a money note from a tray of twelve, each of which is thought to link to the baby’s future career and will “forever seal their fate”, in the words of my grandmother. According to my mother, when facing with the tray, I immediately chose a drug box! Years later, I…

intervention such as adequate pharmacist training e.g., measurement of BP or management of hypertension” (p. 8). There are numerous types of blood pressure monitors that are in the pharmacy setting from personal experience at working in retail pharmacy, including digital BP monitors that are available in the pharmacy store. The pharmacist should educate the patient on how to use the BP monitor and tell them what the values on the monitor indicate, as well as provide the goals of the blood…