Clinical pharmacy

When asked 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 up in the emergency room once my parents discovered what had happened . Apparently this story lingered on in my brain as I continued to be intrigued by “the magic” in this medicine that made me mentally unstable at such a young age. In order…

As I sat anxiously in my desk the last day of high school, I felt compelled and overwhelmed to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I knew I wanted to pursue a career in healthcare because of my mother, who was a registered nurse. Witnessing the love and care my mother had for every patient even when she was not on the clock really inspired the drive for me to impact the lives of others just as I saw her do. Although after I shadowed one of my mother’s colleagues, I knew I could…

theophylline and higher doses could be required. Secondly, theophylline is metabolised in the liver via cytochrome P450, as a result it involves in a lot of drug interactions. Therefore, monitoring by a clinical pharmacist is necessary with this medication (Dipiro et al., 2008). Additionally, when using inhaled drugs, clinical pharmacists can assist in determining a number of factors such as if it is suitable to give inhalers as a combination, which inhaler can be given with the others and which…

I am writing to express my strong interest in the PGY1 pharmacy practice residency program at the University of North Carolina Medical Center (UNCMC). I have had the pleasure to meet you, Dr. Rao, and some of the current PGY1 residents at the ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting; where we went through a very informative overview of the PGY1 residency program at UNCMC and I have had a great discussion with the PGY1 residents. As you may know, I am a fourth-year student at the University of Illinois at…

satellite pharmacy does are drug preparations. In most operating rooms drug preparations and distribution are assigned to technicians with the watchful eye of the pharmacist. Drugs that are used for non-anesthesiology purposes and nonspecific cases, pre-determined medications can be produced and may be used for any patient. Automated medication storage and distribution devices are used to supply medication to surgeons and nurses. These automated devices are very accurate and saves the…

student there are endless opportunities and career paths one can take. Having many choices is a good thing as it will be easier to find a job. Having many choices is stressful; it’s hard making the right choice. I however have narrowed it down to getting a pharmaceutical degree, but there are still many career paths I can take. There are many different career paths one can follow with a pharmaceutical degree some being clinical, medical and in retail (Santiago). The first and the most…

prescribes for patients. 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…

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 set guidelines around…

not but wonder “the magic” behind those medicines that made me act so weird at such a young age that terrified my parents. After hearing this story and knowing that there is a career I can pursue to cure my curiosity I began to consider a career in pharmacy even while I was in my high school where I took science courses as requirements for…

sound, my first encounter with pharmacy happened even before I learned how to speak. In Vietnam, there is this spiritual First Birthday ceremony by which all one-year-olds must pick an item such as a stethoscope or a money note from a tray of twelve, each of which is thought to link to the baby’s future career and will “forever seal their fate”, in the words of my grandmother. According to my mother, when facing with the tray, I immediately chose a drug box! Years later, I looked at those…