Pharmacy technician

10:00 AM and finished at 11:00 AM on March 8/2016 in a Walgreen’s pharmacy located at 9150 Skokie Blvd, Skokie IL. First I met Pharmacist Majid Kamal and the working Technician, Betty. They both greeted me with professional manners. Pharmacist Majid Kamal was wearing a neat and ironed white blouse which had a walgreen sign and a name badge on his left pocket, he was also wearing a really comfortable black clean closed shoes. Technician Betty was dressed in a clean ironed white shirt with her…

requirements if one wants to be a pharmacy technician. A lot of work has to be put into becoming one. One can’t simple become one just off of sure determination. They have to put in the work and time and effort to make that dream come true. The state of Texas requires a certain age, education, and criminal background checks to be eligible to even consider becoming one. According to the State Board of Texas, “To work in a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee,…

what you learn in school and university; or is it also those vital lessons of life, which you learn from practice and experience. The role of pharmacists in practice is changing; hence modifying the future of pharmacy education. The NHS is a key player, with regards to the future of pharmacy education. Since 2010 the NHS has faced dramatic changes, due to the Conservative government. Figures show that around 7060 clinical staff across the NHS, have been made redundant since 2010, although the…

Pursuing a career in pharmacy derives deeply from my self-interest in studying pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and to serve as a bridge for underrepresented Hmong communities. According to the 2010 US Census there are roughly 260,073 Hmong descent living in the United States. Many of these Hmong individual are war veterans or refugees elder who still rely deeply on eastern traditional medicine due to language barriers and lack of knowledge on western medicine. Many traditional eastern…

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…

accomplished. After years of just going with the flow of life I decided that it was time to set a few short-term goals and enroll into pharmacy technician school. I have realized that the first step was to figure out what I wanted to become and go from there. After finding a decent college, I then enrolled into the pharmacy technician program. With becoming a pharmacy technician, I would be able to take care of my family and not have to worry about being laid off. Pharmaceutical companies…

working as a pharmacy technician, I made the mistake of giving the wrong prescription. However, I took the initiative to own to my mistake when it was brought up to me. Since then, I have not made the same mistake again. I make sure to always verify each and every single patient that comes and pick up their medication to make sure they get the correct medication. Leadership skill is very important when it comes to being a pharmacist since the pharmacist must be able to supervise the technicians…

Many other volunteers don’t have this opportunity because they aren’t licensed. Volunteers usually are stuck watching for several hours. I am able to touch medicine and do what a pharmacy technician does. The only thing that I am not allowed to do is to fill IV prescripttions. Usually, Pharmacy Techs are allowed to calculate and measure medicines into IV’s that are given to specific patients. Because I am a volunteer, I am not allowed to do this (which makes sense to me because one calculation…

1 To most people, pharmacy is just the study of medicine and their local pharmacist is just another person who puts pills in bottles all day long – but pharmacy is more than that. 3 Pharmacy is years of hard work in school, years of training to make sure one knows what they are doing so someone does not get the wrong dosage of a medicine, and it’s years of time spent researching with different medicines, trying to find cures. True, pharmacists do collect a pay check and work like everyone else,…

Part of the Pharmacy Tech’s role in greening environments is to ask their manager for recycling bins appropriate to their area. This would allow for broken medical materials/emptied plastic or glass to be recycled and used for other daily items. When it comes to pharmaceutical waste, using the appropriate channels of communication for outdated medicine to be properly disposed of in an incinerator. As a Pharmacy Technician and an employee, we may request that our equipment be looked at to see if…