Title: Blog 22: Mentorship
Label: Mentorship
Due Date: Thursday, May 14 by 8AM
Content:
Pharmacy Technician: Feddy
(Another employee who seen me work at the mentorship this entire year)
EQ: What is the key way pharmacist can enforce patient compliance to prevent noncompliant health problems?
*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office. After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody. It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly. The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.
Grading Criteria (May 13th)
Label: Mentorship
Due Date: Thursday, May 14 by 8AM
Content:
LIA Response to blog:
Literal
· Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog
· Contact Name and Mentorship Place:
Place: Del's Pharmacy 1
Phone: (909)-477-6300
Mentor: Nohan Khalaf (Pharmacist)
Pharmacy Technician: Feddy
(Another employee who seen me work at the mentorship this entire year)
Interpretive
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
The most important experience I gained from my mentorship is the inside knowledge of the process in the pharmacy. In other terms, what goes on in the back of the pharmacy? I learned a lot throughout this year in Del's Pharmacy 1, I learned how to assemble and package a prescribed medication, I learned how to make prescription labels, and the work differences and similarity between pharmacy technician and a pharmacist. It may not be a retail pharmacy, but I describe this closed pharmacy as a full expansion of the back of a retail pharmacy. Usually in the front of a retail pharmacy, there isn't much work to be shown, only consultation, but within the back, there are lots of work to be done.
Seeing visual action of what needs to be done in the pharmacy had really explained to me on the variety of questions I had in the beginning:
- Why do pharmacists get paid so much? (Answer: There is more responsibilities they need to do)
- How hard is it to pack a prescription? (Answer: Not too hard, but double checking is tedious)
- Why are the waits in the pharmacy long? (Answer: prescription preparation and consultation)
- Is there lots of chemistry involved? (Answer: Very little, yet useful once in a while)
My entire perspective of pharmacy field has changed forever and I have full respect of the works of a pharmacist. I hope to share my experience with other people who are interested in the pharmacy field and tell them how the job works for a pharmacists and the skills that are needed. As for people who do not take interest or respect for the field, I want to show them how important the pharmacist job is and the responsibilities they have to do in order to keep us, the patients, safe with our medication usages.
Applied
How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
EQ: What is the key way pharmacist can enforce patient compliance to prevent noncompliant health problems?
Mentorship had really expanded the ideas of errors and solutions within a pharmacy between the consultation/communication and the function of the store. I took use of my observation to answer and ask the right questions about compliance on how can a pharmacist enforce more. Every time in my mentorship, I was free of trouble to ask my mentor and the other technicians of any questions I found to be curious to ask. Throughout this year, I had five mentors (pharmacists) I worked with and each of them had a different experience in their field of pharmacy. Some of the pharmacists worked over ten years, some owned a pharmacy before, most worked in Egypt, and overall, . I was opened to a variety of information about the pharmacy field that I took interest and use of what I have recently learned. With every pharmacist I met, each one had a different on how to enforce compliance throughout my discussion of my EQ such as the use of handouts, calling the patients, and just taking their time during consultation.
For most of my research checks, I was influence to know more of what I recently learned and seen from the pharmacy and the discussions form my mentor and I which I found curious to check up on. These were ideas I wanted to research more about later on when I did my RC notes such as particular searches about the problem of patient compliance issues within the pharmacy, possible solutions, moderate ideas, and more.
All three of my answers that helped relate to my EQ were all part of my observation within Del's Pharmacy 1.
1. Good Pharmacy Practice:
This answer was influenced from my first mentor, Andrew Kest. He taught me how Good Pharmacy Practice helped improve his work in the pharmacy of knowing the basic roles and guidelines on how to be a Good Pharmacist. These rules basically shows pharmacist on how are the works in the pharmacy and what was requirements must be done within the retail pharmacy. There is even a set of rules on the requirements on how to give a proper consultation which my mentor, Andrew, told me that it helps pharmacists to enforce more compliance to patients. For every other mentor I met along this year, I always ask them first of their experience when they use Good Pharmacy Practice and each one I had a different response and more information on both their experience, thoughts, and Board of Pharmacy logic behind this answer.
2. Patient Portal:
I first found this answer by taking on the interest towards technology usages in the pharmacy. In Del's Pharmacy, their main and most reliable tool all employees are dependent on are the computers. They insert all information within the computers such as patients medication records, pharmacy documents, prescription labels, and other important information. This idea influenced me to search about modern technology within the retail pharmacy. Then I stumbled across patient portal which was something I found new, yet it was too new that all my mentors doesn't know about this website. However, they all found patient portal interesting as I told them what it was about and had their own ideas of its ups and downs.
3. Utilizing Technicians:
I found this answer as one of the most least obvious in my mentorship because the entire pharmacy was filled with technicians working around everywhere. I seen how technicians work and their daily performance every day, especially only having one pharmacist working and six technicians working by my mentor's side does really get the job done fast. At first I didn't found the works of technicians can help pharmacists enforce more compliance if they can't be part of it. But after a few information I found on the use of technicians, there are solutions that indicate that techs can help create more time for pharmacists to focus on consultation with their patients, making sure the patient understands fully of their medication. However, I wasn't sure if this information was legit, so as I went to the pharmacy, I showed my mentor all of the research I found to make sure it was legit and true from their experience. And my mentor did found a few errors, corrected my mistakes, and informed me new information about technicians and pharmacists relationship in between.
This answer was influenced from my first mentor, Andrew Kest. He taught me how Good Pharmacy Practice helped improve his work in the pharmacy of knowing the basic roles and guidelines on how to be a Good Pharmacist. These rules basically shows pharmacist on how are the works in the pharmacy and what was requirements must be done within the retail pharmacy. There is even a set of rules on the requirements on how to give a proper consultation which my mentor, Andrew, told me that it helps pharmacists to enforce more compliance to patients. For every other mentor I met along this year, I always ask them first of their experience when they use Good Pharmacy Practice and each one I had a different response and more information on both their experience, thoughts, and Board of Pharmacy logic behind this answer.
2. Patient Portal:
I first found this answer by taking on the interest towards technology usages in the pharmacy. In Del's Pharmacy, their main and most reliable tool all employees are dependent on are the computers. They insert all information within the computers such as patients medication records, pharmacy documents, prescription labels, and other important information. This idea influenced me to search about modern technology within the retail pharmacy. Then I stumbled across patient portal which was something I found new, yet it was too new that all my mentors doesn't know about this website. However, they all found patient portal interesting as I told them what it was about and had their own ideas of its ups and downs.
3. Utilizing Technicians:
I found this answer as one of the most least obvious in my mentorship because the entire pharmacy was filled with technicians working around everywhere. I seen how technicians work and their daily performance every day, especially only having one pharmacist working and six technicians working by my mentor's side does really get the job done fast. At first I didn't found the works of technicians can help pharmacists enforce more compliance if they can't be part of it. But after a few information I found on the use of technicians, there are solutions that indicate that techs can help create more time for pharmacists to focus on consultation with their patients, making sure the patient understands fully of their medication. However, I wasn't sure if this information was legit, so as I went to the pharmacy, I showed my mentor all of the research I found to make sure it was legit and true from their experience. And my mentor did found a few errors, corrected my mistakes, and informed me new information about technicians and pharmacists relationship in between.
*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office. After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody. It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly. The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.
Grading Criteria (May 13th)
- 50 hours completed (50 from the academic year)
- LIA response (submitted to your blog)
- Essential question connection
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