October Extra Blog:

Since I am only able to attend at Del's Pharmacy on saturdays, it made it difficult to schedule my mentorship time with daily up coming events. Recently for this month, I have been making calls to other pharmacies to ask if these facilities are hiring any young high schoolers as clerk. The clerk job in a pharmacy is my idea of my independent component. My topic, patient compliance, is mainly about interactions with patients. Since I am still a minor, the closest way I can communicate to patients is by phone calls to answer simple questions that these people are in need to ask. So far, none has reply to my calls or just aren't interested in hiring anymore clerks. At all else fail, I told my mom that no pharmacies were up for hiring. My mother, who is an RN, suggested if I wanted to work in her clinic as a clerk. She told me at her work there are only a few clerk management who are close to my age and receive daily phone calls from patients everyday. I was interested in her idea and have taken her offer. By the beginning of the first week of November, I will be attending at my mother's pharmacy. But for the first day, I will not be working yet. It will only be a observation check throughout the clinic able to get familiar with the place and know my places when I work as a clerk in the clinic.

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ
Label:  Research
Due Date: Thursday October 16 by 8AM

1.  What is your working EQ?

How can pharmacist enforce patient compliance?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

How can pharmacist enforce patient compliance?

•Physicians need to develop a relationship towards their patient to have an understanding of their way of behavior when it comes to medication.
•Patient Portal is an electronically source patients use to transfer their medical information towards their physicians by text, emails, and electronically able to save time from them going to the pharmacy on foot.

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

My recent sources are from my research checks I have found through articles that explains about what are the useful tactic to help decease noncompliance in patients. I even get a more in depth understanding by asking my mentor of what he thinks about these answers.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

My mentor is Thai Dang, he owns a local pharmacy in Avocado Heights, "Dang's Clinic." I am going to work as a clerk who answers phone calls and helps with any customers in the front desk while the pharmacist is busy in one place and the other.

This relates to my working EQ by understanding the way of communications towards patients able to have an idea of ways to help patients received the help that is needed. I can learn to observe their way of behavior and why he or she occurs to be acting the way they are, which relates to patient compliance.