August: Extra Blog:

During my summer mentorship, I have plan to settle in Del's Pharmacy 1. My experience in that particular clinic is at an ease area, due to the fact that it's an closed pharmacy. Closed pharmacy are regular pharmacy clinics, except it doesn't involve the interaction with patients or customers. Consider the image of this pharmacy just an expanded version of the back of a regular pharmacy. This clinic involves a larger station for filling new medications, computer stations, and half of the place is surrounded by bottles and boxes of prescriptive drugs. Since I am only a minor, I am unable to do a lot of physical work because I do not have a license for medication or a as a pharmacist technician, yet I am able to explore and ask as many questions I want as my curiosity expands. Since my topic is about patient compliance, it would be challenging to receive my answers of observation within the clinic, but luckily my mentor, Andrew Kest, had experienced that situation because he also works in a regular pharmacy clinic. By Andrew's experience, I am able to have his view of  his response towards patient compliance issue. Another fact was that Andrew is the one who suggested this topic for me because he says it was a issue that relates to everyone. Since I have only been there twice, I wasn't able to take pictures, but my mother has because she goes there to drop off expired medications from other companies. In the right hand corner, there is a picture the labels the pharmacy use for the prescription drugs. As you can see that the information needs to be cleared up for various reasons to prevent the medical information of the patient to be shared with anyone.