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.