Pharmacy

curiosity heightened my interest in pharmacy. According to a Chinese proverb, “Prolonged illness makes a patient a good doctor.” In my case, I hope my illnesses will make me a good pharmacist. When I grew a bit older, I started to know more medications, including their functions, dosages, precautions, and side effects. What I went through during childhood has shaped my dream by…

Physician (Krantz). The duties were different and the products were also. Pharmacists were given the material to make and distribute drugs, and the physician would handle the patient. Here in America, Benjamin Franklin was the first to recognize pharmacies in hospitals, taking a huge step by assigning an apothecary to the Pennsylvania Hospital (Krantz). After World War II, the role of a pharmacist evolved once more, changing their duties from just distributing basic medication to sometimes…

I have researched both for a hospital setting and a community setting. However, I have found that community pharmacy would be a better option for me since it will provide me with the most basic aspects of a pharmacist especially because I don’t have any work experience. For this reason, I would like to start with learning the essential roles that can be learned in a community pharmacy and for my second co-op on spring 2017 I can be ready for the next big challenge and start working with…

group effort and work as a team. In the hospital, all the pharmacists have to work together and treat their patients in order to help the patient’s health. When everyone does his or her part and collaborates in the hospital and in the department of pharmacy, it leads to a successful…

You wake up fully rejuvenated and you are ready to begin your day as a pharmacist. You start off your day filling prescriptions for people and making sure it is the dosage for their condition or problem. Next you make sure that all of your pharmacy technicians are doing their jobs correctly. Finally, you get to go home and be with your family. The career as a pharmacist seems to be the right career for me, I’ve always wanted to be one, You need a high prestigious level of education which is…

I am extremely pleased to find that your company has posted a recruitment opportunity for an opening position for a full-time pharmacist on Purdue myCCO. Seeing that CVS Caremark being ranked as the top 13th on Fortune 500 companies, I am aware that this position will be competitive and very much selective in its recruitment process. Despite that fact, I believe I am able to uphold the skills and qualifications in which you and your company is looking for. As a member of my community, I have…

herbal supplement that I had been taking simultaneously to a local owned pharmacy; and asked if there were any drug interactions. The help I received was tremendous. The encounter made me want to understand the mechanism of drugs and the way our bodies metabolize drugs. After I discovered my interest in pharmacology, I changed my major from Biological Sciences to Pharmaceutical sciences to help me better prepare for pharmacy school. I work in Dr. Michael Kleinman’s Environmental Toxicity…

four years for your pharmacy studies. Some people get two degrees and will get the business administration too. When you complete the pharmacy school you still have to take a couple of test so you can work in this field. You…

think health care is a field of study with lots of opportunities that can promise an excellent career and pharmacy is considered as one of the major branch of health care practice. I believe that the field of pharmacy is always going to be under constant growth with the inventions of new drugs going on. I believe this is an era of research and development. I have always had admired pharmacy because of the rewards that it has to offer. These rewards come in different forms like respect,…

a key role by threatening to cut supply from Canadian pharmacies; furthermore, PhRMA used lobbying to stem the flow of Canadian drugs into the U.S. In this case, government inaction (or wrong action) served the private interest and not the public interest. The FDA and U.S government could have easily placed regulations on packaging, labeling, and distribution as a filter between the legitimate Canadian pharmacies and counterfeit pharmacies. Also, the FDA could have educated the public on the…