Pharmacy

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…

Elizabeth has been working as a pharmacy technician between two and a half to three years. She started working as a pharmacy technician because she lost her job in the automotive field and wasn’t having a lot of luck finding a new job in the same field. She decided to find a job in the medical field because she felt that she would have a better chance of getting a job. She signed up for free classes offered by the state of Michigan that would help provide her with new skills and education in…

what I wanted to be when I grow up as far back as in my elementary years , I never minced word about wanting to be a pharmacist. A story my mother told me about an incidence that occurred during my childhood inflamed this early desire to pursue pharmacy as a career. According to my mother, at about year two, I swallowed Valium tablets that I found lying around in the house. Consequently, I started acting irrationally, laughing uncontrollably and became sleep-deprived. Without a doubt, I ended…

To begin summarizing this article, According to Carol O’ Donnell and Greg Roumelitotis(2017), CVS pharmacy made an offer to merge with Aetna Inc. for over sixty-six billion dollars. Many pharmaceutical businesses are entering consolidations amongst each other due to the constant hassle of the large corporations and the government demanding them to lower high medical cost. If these companies were to lower their prices it would be more related to Graph C; Various pharmaceutical and health…

CVS Pharmacy CVS is a store and pharmacy combined together. They sell a variety of things from medicines to groceries. Some of the merchandise that they stock is healthcare items, food, beverages, toys, office supplies, baby supplies, toiletries, and makeup. I have a relative of mine who works there and they explained to me how they determine their cost of goods sold in CVS. In CVS they determine their cost of goods through a mixture of perpetual and periodic inventory system. There is a…

At the University of the Pacific, I intend to be in the 2+3 Pre-Pharmacy Advantage Program. I love the idea of being able to jump into the world of Pharmacy just 5 years after graduating high school. There is a need for pharmacists that can integrate a wide knowledge base into patient care. Pharmacy today revolves around maximizing compliance and selecting the most appropriate medications based on patient health, side effect profiles, genetics, financial resources, and other clinical factors.…

Aldridge, C. (2016). What’s planned in building near CVS Pharmacy. Midland Daily News. Retrieved from http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/What-s-planned-in-building-near-CVS-Pharmacy-9514418.php In this article, the author discusses a CVS store in South Saginaw that’s expanding to 13,600 square foot. In return, for it to be large enough to respond to the medical and dental building that’s being built right across the street. So, to build that area up for the community, the size of the…

My first Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) was at Walmart Pharmacy, in Quincy, Florida, under the directorship of Dr. Sharonda McNeil, Pharmacy Manager and Dr. Amr Asker, Staff Pharmacist. I did my rotation at this location for a total of three Thursdays I’ve been working in retail for almost three years so I am pretty familiar with how things flow. I just mainly needed to learn the process of filling that Walmart Pharmacy follows. Walmart Pharmacy is an organization who 's…

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…

could not handle the gory aspects that are associated with most healthcare professions; however, this shadowing 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…