Pharmacist Personal Statement

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My interested in health profession began, especially in the Pharmaceutical field. After I graduated from college, then I started to work as a credentialed trainer in Epic for Valley Health. It was there when I realized that taking care of patient involves teamwork including doctors diagnosing patients’ diseases and prescribing medication, nurses administering doctor’s orders and pharmacist’s verifying the correct dosage and medication. Upon working with an instructional designer who was a pharmacist I learned about that course of patient’s stay in the hospital involves multiple medications. That the process that involves teamwork, such as administering the correct dosage with the diagnosis, understanding about the classes of certain drugs and their side effects. Along with HIPAA, providing a patient with counseling on the medications and teaching them about it.

After working as an EMR consultant everything started to make sense. The science classes that I took at college seemed to fit like a jigsaw puzzle. After working and observing in the E.R. for a month as a consultant I was motivated and my ambition to become a pharmacist. Everything became so clear that it requires a team working together to treat a patient and that is built on trust and
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How Viagra was intended for heart patient but the outcome changed perspective for medicine and at that the time I took that information for granted. Now I know that it takes trial and error to achieve the outcome of the hypothesis over a span of years. I like to think of my college life as a trial and error because at a time I wasn’t able to put pieces of the puzzle together. In college science, a lecture wasn’t my favorite subject except for physics which provided logical information rather than theories. Lab seemed unique and exotic because it was thrilling and to see if the results supported the hypothesis and it was

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