For the next month, I will not be able to follow Erica Stevens, my sponsor, due to her need to attend to her newborn son. However, I have the opportunity to be in the company of one of the pharmacy technicians who also works at the pharmacy in Carle Hospital, Jeanine Black. She has had a long history of working in many different fields of pharmaceuticals [D], which means she will be a great source of useful information about different career paths that I may take all within pharmaceuticals [A].
When I first arrived, I was greeted by Jeanine. I was happy that she recognized me from our first meeting because I was worried that I would not have recognized her [F]. After setting my coat down, I was given a brief tour of the pharmacy and introduced to some of the pharmacists and technicians before Jeanine took her lunch break. During her break, I was given a packet of information to read regarding the laws of regulating substances used in the production of methamphetamines, after which I was required to sign off that I would not break any of these rules. I finished with this reading fairly quickly [D], then I figured that I would just wait around until Jeanine returned. But after waiting 5 or 10 minutes, I started to wonder if I should ask for something to do. But since it was the first day, I thought that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to ask someone other than my sponsor to take their time to give me something to do. I didn't feel like I should be a bother on the first day [F]. So I waited another 5 minutes or so, and Jeanine came back.
I was then given a more in depth tour of the pharmacy. Everything was set up in a very organized fashion [D] (which was great for me because I am a neat freak [F]). Medications were shevled in groups, including creams, ointments, tablets, injections, etc. Within these groups they were alphabetized. Then in the front shevles right by the counters, there were the most commonly used drugs, placed there for easy access by the pharmacists. The people working in the pharmacy were set up in a sort of assembly line. Starting from the left, a technician would take prescriptions from customers walking in. From there, the scripts (prescriptions) would be evaluated by a technician and passed along to the pharmacist, who would prepare the medicine. The pharmacist would place the completed order in a basket where the cashier would place it in a bag and organize it alphabetically by the customers name where they would come to pick it up. Scripts also come in through emails from doctors and through a tubing system that runs throughout the whole hospital. The tubing system is like those which you would see at bank drive-ups. For patients who have been staying at the hospital and are leaving, their doctor will send a request for medication through a tube to the pharmacy where pharmacists can fill ther prescription quickly and send it back so that the patient can be discharged.
This first day was filled with tons of information, only some of which I can actually remember. I did a lot of talking to Jeanine about the different fields of pharmaceuticals and the kinds of education it requires. I found out that in order to be a pharmacist, you take both a pharmacy exam as well as a law exam [D]. This was not exciting news to me because I am terrible at anything relating to law, politics, government, etc. [F] But learning just about the rules of the methamphetamines earlier that day made it seem less horrible because it wasn't extremely complicated, but pretty straightforward, and you pick these rules and laws up as you go [A]. The most fun thing I did was I got to recieve some of the tubes with prescriptions from the chute [F]. I also got to do some logging and record keeping for the conformations of prescritions that were recieved [D]. All in all, it was a successful first day, and I look forward to continuing my internship next Tuesday! [F]
When I first arrived, I was greeted by Jeanine. I was happy that she recognized me from our first meeting because I was worried that I would not have recognized her [F]. After setting my coat down, I was given a brief tour of the pharmacy and introduced to some of the pharmacists and technicians before Jeanine took her lunch break. During her break, I was given a packet of information to read regarding the laws of regulating substances used in the production of methamphetamines, after which I was required to sign off that I would not break any of these rules. I finished with this reading fairly quickly [D], then I figured that I would just wait around until Jeanine returned. But after waiting 5 or 10 minutes, I started to wonder if I should ask for something to do. But since it was the first day, I thought that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to ask someone other than my sponsor to take their time to give me something to do. I didn't feel like I should be a bother on the first day [F]. So I waited another 5 minutes or so, and Jeanine came back.
I was then given a more in depth tour of the pharmacy. Everything was set up in a very organized fashion [D] (which was great for me because I am a neat freak [F]). Medications were shevled in groups, including creams, ointments, tablets, injections, etc. Within these groups they were alphabetized. Then in the front shevles right by the counters, there were the most commonly used drugs, placed there for easy access by the pharmacists. The people working in the pharmacy were set up in a sort of assembly line. Starting from the left, a technician would take prescriptions from customers walking in. From there, the scripts (prescriptions) would be evaluated by a technician and passed along to the pharmacist, who would prepare the medicine. The pharmacist would place the completed order in a basket where the cashier would place it in a bag and organize it alphabetically by the customers name where they would come to pick it up. Scripts also come in through emails from doctors and through a tubing system that runs throughout the whole hospital. The tubing system is like those which you would see at bank drive-ups. For patients who have been staying at the hospital and are leaving, their doctor will send a request for medication through a tube to the pharmacy where pharmacists can fill ther prescription quickly and send it back so that the patient can be discharged.
This first day was filled with tons of information, only some of which I can actually remember. I did a lot of talking to Jeanine about the different fields of pharmaceuticals and the kinds of education it requires. I found out that in order to be a pharmacist, you take both a pharmacy exam as well as a law exam [D]. This was not exciting news to me because I am terrible at anything relating to law, politics, government, etc. [F] But learning just about the rules of the methamphetamines earlier that day made it seem less horrible because it wasn't extremely complicated, but pretty straightforward, and you pick these rules and laws up as you go [A]. The most fun thing I did was I got to recieve some of the tubes with prescriptions from the chute [F]. I also got to do some logging and record keeping for the conformations of prescritions that were recieved [D]. All in all, it was a successful first day, and I look forward to continuing my internship next Tuesday! [F]
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