Shadowing: Student Reflection
Student Name: Phuong H Nguyen
Class of Course: PharmD 2021
Semester: Spring 2018 What? What was the experience? What did you do? With and/or for whom? When? Where? How long?
On February 13th, 2017, I had a 4-hour shadowing with Jay Deora, RPh, Pharmacy manager at Walgreens pharmacy located at 1020 N Collins St., Arlington, TX 76011. During this shadowing with RPh. Deora I learned hands on that there was a lot of information to be learned I was eager to take in as much information as I can. Seeing him interact with patients and him doing his day to day routine gave me valuable insights on my career goal of being a pharmacist.
So what? What is the overall meaning of the experience for you? How did your perceptions …show more content…
You don’t want to give patients wrong medications or dosage. So, having a good communication, good attitude, and efficiency team work is very important in a pharmacy.
Patients counseling is important, and I think at community pharmacy we don’t spend much time in this area, sometimes its due to being very busy. Most of the time, patients seem to not care about drugs they are taking or are just in a rush to get it and go. Pharmacist often spending little time with patients going over what drugs is use for and/or side effects before patients take off.
Being a pharmacist is very challenging there are many areas that need to be learned and mastered. This shadowing gave me questions and answers for my career in this field of work. It gave me a better understanding of what it takes to be a pharmacist and the commitment that it takes. But in the end the reward and the helping of others is worth it. Seeing and interacting with patients knowing you are there to help them get better and seeing them returning, getting to know them, and gain patients’ trust, makes me appreciate being a pharmacist that much …show more content…
What are some long-term implications of this experience for your education and your future practice in pharmacy? What do you want to learn more about—based on this experience? What specific courses and experiences in the curriculum will you seek and why? From your challenging or negative observation described in the So What? Section, describe how you would plan to approach or overcome this situation or problem or describe the skills, knowledge and attitudes that you need to acquire to approach this situation or
Student Name: Phuong H Nguyen
Class of Course: PharmD 2021
Semester: Spring 2018 What? What was the experience? What did you do? With and/or for whom? When? Where? How long?
On February 13th, 2017, I had a 4-hour shadowing with Jay Deora, RPh, Pharmacy manager at Walgreens pharmacy located at 1020 N Collins St., Arlington, TX 76011. During this shadowing with RPh. Deora I learned hands on that there was a lot of information to be learned I was eager to take in as much information as I can. Seeing him interact with patients and him doing his day to day routine gave me valuable insights on my career goal of being a pharmacist.
So what? What is the overall meaning of the experience for you? How did your perceptions …show more content…
You don’t want to give patients wrong medications or dosage. So, having a good communication, good attitude, and efficiency team work is very important in a pharmacy.
Patients counseling is important, and I think at community pharmacy we don’t spend much time in this area, sometimes its due to being very busy. Most of the time, patients seem to not care about drugs they are taking or are just in a rush to get it and go. Pharmacist often spending little time with patients going over what drugs is use for and/or side effects before patients take off.
Being a pharmacist is very challenging there are many areas that need to be learned and mastered. This shadowing gave me questions and answers for my career in this field of work. It gave me a better understanding of what it takes to be a pharmacist and the commitment that it takes. But in the end the reward and the helping of others is worth it. Seeing and interacting with patients knowing you are there to help them get better and seeing them returning, getting to know them, and gain patients’ trust, makes me appreciate being a pharmacist that much …show more content…
What are some long-term implications of this experience for your education and your future practice in pharmacy? What do you want to learn more about—based on this experience? What specific courses and experiences in the curriculum will you seek and why? From your challenging or negative observation described in the So What? Section, describe how you would plan to approach or overcome this situation or problem or describe the skills, knowledge and attitudes that you need to acquire to approach this situation or