Doctor of Pharmacy

experience led me to discover my initial desire to help others and make a difference. I owe my foremost interest in pursuing a career in pharmacy to my paternal grandparents. Six months ago, both of my grandparents were diagnosed with cancer. I was given the opportunity to take my grandparents to chemotherapy at the cancer center. I got to witness how the doctors and pharmacists worked in collaboration to help ensure my grandparents’ success in overcoming this dreadful disease. As we waited to…

industry of nuclear pharmacy to me and went through his job description and duties. Through my experience, I learned that although nuclear pharmacy also works with drugs, it is a whole lot different from other pharmacy settings. The major differences that set nuclear pharmacy apart are the type of drug the pharmacy carry, the size of the industry, operating hours and schedules, the delivery system the pharmacy run, and the type of customers they interact with. Nuclear pharmacy is a very small…

Topic thing Hospitals are large facilities and require a lot of people to work in them. They need physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and many other doctors that specialize in areas. Another type of person hospitals need are volunteers. Even though volunteers don’t have degrees, they still are able to work in places in the hospitals. The volunteers are able to work wherever in the hospital they desire, as long as space allows it. I was interested in volunteering at a hospital because even…

wanted to get involved in the medical field in some kind of way. I did not know in what way exactly, but I knew I wanted to improve people’s health quality. It wasn’t until high school that I decide that pharmacy was the way to go. I enjoyed how the patients had easy access to care in a pharmacy compared to a doctor’s office. They could just walk in and ask for help without having to set up an appointment. After making this decision to become a pharmacist, I chose to go to STLCOP. During my…

Should The Pharmaceutical Industry Provide Free Medication To Those Who Cannot Afford It? Raghavendra Appalla #1675363 Fairleigh Dickinson University EPS 8109_8P Abstract In this paper the importance of free medication is explained clearly in this paper.In this paper the various aspects like intellectual property,finance drug development and the development on framework for essential drugs distribution.In this paper all the above aspects are analyzed and then these are supported with…

Adverse drug events and medication errors are major safety issues in the medical field. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, adverse drug events are defined as harm experienced by a patient as a result of exposure to a medication. Also defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a medication error is an error at any step along the pathway that begins when a clinician prescribes a medication and ends when the patient actually receives the medication. Even…

Some of the existing methods and services that a satellite pharmacy does are drug preparations. In most operating rooms drug preparations and distribution are assigned to technicians with the watchful eye of the pharmacist. Drugs that are used for non-anesthesiology purposes and nonspecific cases, pre-determined medications can be produced and may be used for any patient. Automated medication storage and distribution devices are used to supply medication to surgeons and nurses. These…

These state government rules and standards are completely necessary for pharmacies to run smoothly and effectively. There are HIPAA laws and regulations that keep the patient’s medication and doctor’s information/treatment private. “Founded in 1904, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) is the impartial professional organization that supports the state boards of pharmacy in protecting public health. NABP aims to ensure the public’s health and safety through its…

The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Decision Making Process Introduction This paper will explore the ways that pharmaceutical companies make decisions regarding disease research. The current hypothesis is that prospective profitability is the most prevalent and most important reason taken into account. If this is true, then many ethical issues could arise, including the unnecessary suffering of individuals affected, since there could be a chance that the companies are not researching certain diseases…

and knowing that there is a career I can pursue to cure my curiosity I began to consider a career in pharmacy even while I was in my high school where I took science courses as requirements for…