Pharmacy

I had the opportunity of serving my first Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) at Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, Fl. I worked alongside of pharmacist, Payam Parchamzad RPh. and his certified technicians. I currently work in a retail pharmacy at Publix, and having the ability to experience hospital pharmacy was very interesting because I gained more knowledge, saw a patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and learned about different medications that I wouldn’t dispense…

Hospital leaders are increasingly showing more interest in integrating pharmacy services within their organization due to the shift from fee-for-service to fee-for-value compensation model and the increased demand for care coordination in the post-acute space (Fox, 2016). In actuality, there are many benefits to opening up a pharmacy connected to the hospital and can often times outweigh steep costs that can affect the bottom line. For the last 10 years, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have…

On October 27, 2015, Walgreens Pharmacy, announced it deal with Rite aid to combine in hopes to boost the industry. This massive deal would combine the second and third largest pharmacy companies to create possible the largest chain. The offer proposed by Walgreens to Rite aid was that it would pay 9$ per share. Wall Street Journal reported Rite aid shares skyrocketed 43% as the deal approached reaching a high $8.67 nonetheless, Walgreens offer was still greater. (Bomey) The total agreed offer…

I went to 3 different pharmacies to see if they would accept me to do my 16 hours. The pharmacies I went to apply to are Shoppers Drug Mart located in Eglinton Square Shopping Centre, Shoppers Drug mart in parkway mall and Walmart Scarborough West Supercentre. The reason why I didn’t get accepted because they had already volunteers. I didn’t have much challenge in choosing the pharmacy to do my placement. There were about four pharmacy stores in the area that lived in. I did my 16 hours at…

The career of pharmacy has interested me ever since I was a little girl and this has been one of my passions ever since. Some of the different pharmacy careers that really stood out and interested me are community pharmacy, pharmacy opportunities in rural communities, ambulatory care clinics, and medication therapy management programs. A community pharmacy is a healthcare facility that focuses on providing services to a single specific community within an area. A community pharmacist is…

Some aspects of pharmacy has been, constant- unchanged over a long time period of time. The first college of pharmacy in the United States was founded in 1821 as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Many colleges followed after. No information was found about the establishment of the first pharmacy school in Mexico. Currently, there is eleven pharmacy schools in California and one-hundred thirty nine pharmacy schools in the United States. In Mexico, there is only four pharmacy schools. The…

Being a certified pharmacy technician for over eight years; I admire and appreciate the work of my pharmacists. Always striving to learn more, I continue to acquire knowledge of the profession through the eyes of the pharmacists and as a result continue to teach myself what medications do and how they work in the body to help our patients. It is because of this fascination of the profession of pharmacy that I decided it was time to acquire my Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Getting to this point was…

my time interning as a pharmacy clerk at Kim Leader Pharmacy, I answered phone calls, took messages, assisted patients and cleaned counting trays. I also re-shelved and stocked drugs throughout the store which helped me becoming familiar with some common generic and brand drugs. Moreover, I also familiarized myself with some pharmacy laws and regulations like HIPPA, sign-in log, and inventory control. This internship gave me a better understanding of how retail pharmacies work as well as the…

at a Walmart Super Center in Fort Worth, Texas. My shadowing began early that morning and ended around noon. This was my first time behind the pharmacy viewing a practicing community pharmacist. Many of her tasks for the day included immunizations, reviewing medications orders, counseling patients, and when orders became backed up she aided the pharmacy technician when available. There was an audit that day for immunization from the corporate level to make sure that all procedures and vaccines…

Senior Research Paper Pharmacist This career involves distributing drugs that are prescribed by physicians and health practitioners. Pharmacists provide information about medications and their use. They also advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medication. A pharmacist must understand the use, clinical effects, and composition of drugs, including their chemical, biological, and physical properties. Although you usually only…