Pharmacist

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 first year of college I have established several goals to develop myself as the best pharmacist I can be. Obviously, one of my main goals is to graduate from STLCOP. This goal breaks down into several smaller goals. For…

volunteer as a pharmaceutical assistant. As an aspiring pharmacist, the experience of being first-hand behind the counter has shown me many highlights about the occupation. A pharmacist possesses extraordinary attentive skills for understanding patient difficulties and administering the applicable medication. Some of my responsibilities consisted of organization of patient files, working the cash register and aiding customers. A pharmacist has many customers, each having specific requirements…

During my 3 years of pharmacy school, my perspective of pharmacist and future path has been changed many times. Before entering to the Pharmacy school, I did not deeply think about what kind of pharmacist I wanted to be. Definitely, IPPEs during the Pharmacy school years help me to navigate which field I have interest in. Also, many classes and research project gave me some ideas and helped to find my interests. As I learned and experienced more in the pharmacy field, my expectation and my…

When dealing with the scope of practice, a pharmacy technician may assist the pharmacist by not counseling a patient, compound high-risk sterile preparations, or release a verbal prescription order for processing until it is reduced to written form and initialed by the receiving technician and supervising pharmacist. The role of a pharmacy technician is limited. There are certain activities that they are certified to do and not to do. Administering…

Doctor Baker’s Ethics class. This will allow me to become an independent thinker in respects to making my own ethical decision instead of relying on somebody else to help me. This is important for developing professionalism in pharmacy because as a pharmacist we are…

you may know, I am a fourth-year student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and I am interested in pursuing a pharmacy practice residency that would help me to achieve my career goals and to work as a faculty member as well as a clinical pharmacist in cardiology back in Saudi Arabia (KSA). My interest in pharmacy…

“PHARMACIST ROLE IN SKILL DEVELOPMENT TO ENHANCE THE NATION” SUB: “A Skill full Pharmacist plays vital role in the given departments for the development of the Nation.” PHARMACY: “It is a branch of science (professional science) which deals with identification, isolation, purification, standardization, preparation, dispensing, analysis and counselling the patients regarding the drug.” Pharmacist is a member and part of pharmacy and society. Pharmacist can survive any where throughout…

A Pharmacy Technician assist a pharmacist with the preparation of prescription Medications for costumers (Payscale Human capital, 2015). Payscale Human capital. (2015, September). (PayScale Inc.) Retrieved September 24, 2015, from Payscale: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Pharmacy_Technician/Hourly_Rate. He or she may receive written prescription request from customers or may request sent electronically or Planed in by doctor’s office. Pharmacy technician duties vary depending on the…

attitude of Pharmacists towards patients probably has a similar effect. When patients ask questions to the pharmacist, if they are met with indifference or feel like they are not as important to the pharmacist as another task, they may not take the advice that they are given and will more than likely be put in a mood that is not conducive to getting better. If the patient feels that their overall wellbeing is not a concern of a person that is supposed to care about it, the pharmacist, they…

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…