Title: Summer Mentorship Component
Label: Mentorship
Due Date: Monday, August 19th by 8AM (school starts August 20th)
Content: (directions)
Answer the following 5 questions. Remember to link the log of your mentorship hours using google docs (drive). Post your blog response on your senior project blog. We check it there.
Literal:
1. Using google doc link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties
2. What is the contact name & number of where you
volunteered?
Name: Andrew Kest
Work Number: 909-477-6300
Location: Del's Pharmacy 1
3. What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.
What is a pharmacist's daily routine in the pharmacy?
What is best way to start before you become a pharmacist?
How many medications does the pharmacist's have to go through
every day?
Is there a lot of paper work involve?
Can pharmacists dispose expired medication or is that someone
else's job?
What skills are involve into this field of work?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this career?
What happens if a pharmacist accidentally caused a person's
life?
Can you become more beyond as a pharmacist?
What is the risk of being a pharmacist?
Interpretive
4. What is the most important thing you gained from this
experience? Why?
My experience observing my mentor, Andrew, is gaining the main
factors of the most difficult parts about his career because I want to expect
what will occur in this field before I decide to take in a career as a pharmacist.
There will be a possibility that I can or cannot handle this job and I wish to
know now than finding it out the long way.
Applied
5. What
is your senior project topic going to be? How did what you did help you
choose a topic? Please explain.
My senior project topic will be based on patient compliance.
During summer mentorship in the pharmacy, I realized how peer pressuring it is to organize, label, count, and double checking every prescription medications. From counting every single pill to packaging them away, the line of work in the pharmacy is more stressful than you think. Until you become used to your daily routine in a indoor- pharmacy. Andrew, my mentor, told me that it is more easier working in a indoor- pharmacy than an outdoor. There is only one difference between those two pharmacy, the indoor is where you do not interact with patients and the outdoor you do. Andrew actually works in both kinds of pharmacy, he still prefers the indoor because in the outdoor you have to deal with patient compliance issue. Patient compliance issue is when a patient is taking their medication correctly and follow their medical advice, yet it falls into a situation of the patient becoming self - care and self-directed, and a lack of comprehension of treatment benefits. In other words, they rely on the directions written on the bottle and their self conscious than their own pharmacist. These kinds of patients would be taking their medication in their own certain way have no idea what are the side effects if they taken them in a different way. Examples would be, taking their medication before eating, smashing up the pills into powder, or not even taking their medication through their mouth. This issue has been a major problem towards for years, it is even against the law for the pharmacist to ask in a form of a question if the patient wants to know any information about their drug they have brought. I had seek interest of this information about this problem and want think more in depth about it. Especially I have no experience as a pharmacist myself, but knowing how stressful it is in both indoors and out. This issue must be shared to all of those who doesn't know the line of work inside the pharmacy.
My senior project topic will be based on patient compliance.
During summer mentorship in the pharmacy, I realized how peer pressuring it is to organize, label, count, and double checking every prescription medications. From counting every single pill to packaging them away, the line of work in the pharmacy is more stressful than you think. Until you become used to your daily routine in a indoor- pharmacy. Andrew, my mentor, told me that it is more easier working in a indoor- pharmacy than an outdoor. There is only one difference between those two pharmacy, the indoor is where you do not interact with patients and the outdoor you do. Andrew actually works in both kinds of pharmacy, he still prefers the indoor because in the outdoor you have to deal with patient compliance issue. Patient compliance issue is when a patient is taking their medication correctly and follow their medical advice, yet it falls into a situation of the patient becoming self - care and self-directed, and a lack of comprehension of treatment benefits. In other words, they rely on the directions written on the bottle and their self conscious than their own pharmacist. These kinds of patients would be taking their medication in their own certain way have no idea what are the side effects if they taken them in a different way. Examples would be, taking their medication before eating, smashing up the pills into powder, or not even taking their medication through their mouth. This issue has been a major problem towards for years, it is even against the law for the pharmacist to ask in a form of a question if the patient wants to know any information about their drug they have brought. I had seek interest of this information about this problem and want think more in depth about it. Especially I have no experience as a pharmacist myself, but knowing how stressful it is in both indoors and out. This issue must be shared to all of those who doesn't know the line of work inside the pharmacy.
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