Pharmacist Interview Paper

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Running head: Week 4 Paper Clinical Pharmacist Interview Warlear Garrett HCS/235 Health Care Delivery in the U.S. The resposonsibilities of a pharmacist has changed dramatically over the past decade and still undergoing major changes. Countless things in the workforce have evolved and modernized to improve the way pharmacist provide continuum of care to patients. This interview with Dr Cochran will give us further insight on a life as a Pharmacist in a retail chain pharmacy. I am currently a staff pharmacist at local hospital. I knew when I was younger I wanted to pursue and career in the healthcare industry so attended a career fair and spoke with a pharmacist and found out how much money and the advancement possibilities. I went to a local pharmacy and …show more content…

I started working in a pharmacy when I was about 21 as a pharmacy technician. I had a mentor who showed me what a pharmacist could be. The best thing about a career in pharmacy is the excellent pay and stability. There is a huge demand for pharmacists, so jobs are plentiful and pay is high. There is also the day-to-day satisfaction of knowing that you went out of your way to help a patient with their health care needs. . One thing that hospital pharmacy is not is typical. I enter daily physician orders for the medications that needs to be admistered during a patient hosipital stay. I review medication orders and tests and procedures that have been done. When a medication is written the provider use there Ipad or tablet to send the prescription electronically to the pharmacy where I or other will fill those prescriptions. My current title is a Clinical Pharmacist which means that in our hospital, I work in several in several departments ranging in all specialty. outpatient pharmacy. My work schedule consists of a five day work week starting at 8:00am till five in the afternoon. I come in and review patient charts and create reports while entering any orders that come from the physicians. I

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