Pharmacist Personal Statement

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Working in this inpatient hospital pharmacy has provided me valuable experiences. I worked different shifts and involved in most of the duties a staff pharmacy technician did to gain as much understanding as possible about the hospital pharmacy system. This helped me learn how a clinical pharmacist or a pharmacy technician worked, how the doctor's orders were carried out and how drugs flew safely and quickly through many persons in the hospital. Assisting pharmacists, I observed how pharmacists collaborated with pharmacy team members and other health professionals to manage a therapeutic plan. I understood a good pharmacist, besides being competent, must be a good team player.
After doing well all of my duties as a pharmacy technician, I tried …show more content…

I helped the pharmacy as a clerk first while studying pharmacy technician. After having the pharmacy technician certification, I was able to help more as a pharmacy technician intern. I learned how to read prescriptions, how to pick the right medications with the right forms, how to mix liquid drugs, how to calculate the amount of drugs to dispense, how to receive new shipments, and how to store, label, and distribute them to each patient. More than that, working here gave me an insight about the importance of community pharmacists and their difficulties. I saw pharmacists significantly increased the safe use of medications and save many people from harm on a daily basis. Many doctors did not use the electronic prescribing method, and many of them wrote illegible prescriptions. Because medications names were very similar to each other, pharmacy technicians could create many typing errors when entering orders. Besides, doctors did not always thoroughly understand the drugs they prescribed. They also did not always know all about the drugs their patients were taking. To make sure the right medications to the right patients, pharmacists had to call the doctors, verified prescriptions, and made advices. However, many patients did not want to wait for medications. Thus, I saw the challenge of community pharmacists was that they had to work accurately, quickly, and efficiently while being caring and diplomatic with patients and doctors. I also recognized that a pharmacist was both a drug scientist and a business person. The work challenge and a variety of roles a pharmacist plays attracted me to be a

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