Curious about how medications work, I always ask why when given a treatment. Without health insurance, my family used to rely on inexpensive medications over the counter as a doctor’s visit was hardly affordable. The various medications for my recurring tonsil infections left me pondering the rationale behind them. I wish there were someone who could tell us whether we were taking the right medications. My determination to become that person to help those with trouble accessing health care raised my desire for higher education. Amazed as I was by science courses, I wanted to push forward and make my knowledge useful. My eagerness to learn about medications in depth and apply that knowledge to help others with the effective use of medications urged me to forge ahead with a pharmacy career.
Without guidance, I made pharmacy career achievable just as I fulfilled my undergraduate education. My engagement in research projects on DNA repair mechanisms was due to my persistence in understanding the theories beyond the bench. Likewise, I believed in the necessity to thoroughly understand a pharmacy career by participating in related activities. While interpreting for student pharmacists as they helped the underserved elderly select
I want to gain experience in infectious diseases and oncology because patients in these categories are most sensitive and need the greatest attention. As an expert on medications and the last stoplight to guide the effective administration of medication, I hope to develop positive relationships with diverse patients and the healthcare team to best serve the purpose of fighting diseases. Furthermore, besides using my solid experience to counsel patients on medications and help them gain access to better healthcare in underserved communities at home and abroad, I hope I can inspire my fellow pharmacists to do the
Overall, I retain three goals for this clinical day: Safely and efficently administer medication, enhance my nursing/CNA skills, and determine how to implement infection control into a health care setting. This week reflects my assigned time to administer medication in a health care setting for the first time, with a resident who retains nearly twenty medications. I except this experience will be a great learning experience, but it will also subsist slightly stressful. With the assistance of my FOR, my goal is to administer all of my resident 's medications without complications. To ensure that medication safety, I will perform the six medication rights and three checks prior to administration. Along with medication administration, a goal
This relates strongly with my long term professional goals. In the long run, I really wish to help as many people as I can by advancing pharmacy. It is a dream to be able to go to a developing country or be part of an organization such as the World Health Organization and spread the knowledge of pharmacy and bring h...
When you ask people what you think when word “pharmacist” come to your mind? They often say pharmacist have to deal with variety of legal drugs. From my personal opinion, when I hear the word “Pharmacist”, I think of helping others. This inspiration came from my Health Science class I took in twelve grade. Until senior year of my high school, I did not know what I wanted to be. But it all changed, after my first shadowing experience at pharmacist station. There I learn about what exactly the pharmacist career is about, what are some of the equipments used in the field and how I can contribute the knowledge I receive here to help others.
Upon my return from Africa, a new direction opened for me, and I stepped into a career in the pharmaceutical industry, exposing me to several facets and specialties of medicine. Simultaneously,
Medicine is an extraordinary field of study, you meet all types of people from various walks of life, encounter different situations daily and the difference that a physician can make in one’s life is priceless. More importantly, when you enter medical school, one of the most important things that will be embedded in your mind during and even after you graduate is, prescription, prescription and prescription, During ones medical education, physicians are taught not only about the human body but to write prescriptions. The pharmaceutical business is a billion dollar industry, today there are so many people that are on a drug treadmill. In a class that the researcher is currently taking, there was a young lady that asked the question, why physicians do not use alternative ways to treat patients, instead of just prescribing traditional medications? The answer to this is that, physicians are not taught to use alternative medicines or to try to find the root of the problem to an illness but to write prescriptions to alleviate medical issues. In all fairness, there are some physicians that do want to get to the under lying cause of any illness but they are few and far between. Moreover with all the advancement in technology and medicines, what if an individual did not want to take medication to treat their illness? Then how would he or she be perceived by the medical world and society? The researcher did explore a few cases of individuals whom just refuse to take medication for their medical conditions or their lo...
...ed throughout this paper that a career as either a pharmacist or physician would be perfect careers for me, due to the fact that they are equivalent with my interests, values and goals in life are. There is a lot of hard work involved in these professions, but my love for helping people would carry me through the stresses involved in the schooling and work required of a physician or pharmacist.
End-points of therapy in the medications that modify a disease are: lack of disease control, unacceptable adverse effects, lack of patient compliance, or something better becomes available (Faguy, 2016). Medications that suppress humoral immunity boost helpfulness but in reality recurrent or subsequent infections, as in the case of SC, beleaguer the patient (Ali, Muraro, & Nicholas, 2013). Nurses face the daunting task of explaining these medications are extremely expensive (ranging over $10,000 per year in estimation) and work to provide exceptional patient education for compliance as well as discussing a new window for alternative or complementary treatments
Since my early schooling days, science and mathematics have always fascinated me given that all components of the world are explained on the basis of these disciplines. In this regard, Pharmacy which is based on Chemistry and Mathematics has interested me a great deal as it has direct impacts on our daily lives. The more I have become familiar with the chemistry and mathematics knowledge involved in pharmacy, the more I have appreciated its significance in improving the lives of people in the community. Out of the many careers that one would opt to pursue, Pharmacy has stood out as the career that will enable me serve the society more directly and have a real impact in the quality of peoples’ lives by touching their health. In addition, I love a career that is challenging and one that I will be involved in even in old age. In this case, Pharmacy offers me this opportunity. My interest in Pharmacy has also developed from my personal health experiences and becoming aware of its expansiveness. Every time I have had to take medicine to cure an illness, I have become more interested to know how drugs are made and how the drug components work in the human body to alleviate pain and restore health. I desire to pursue a career in Pharmacy so as to gain practical experience in these aspects of research.
The importance of the becoming a pharmacist should not be about what the career can give a person in monetary value or the amount of accolades one receives. Instead, the career should be about saving and improving human lives and serving the public. Pharmacists keep people healthy, make them feel better, and try to help the public live longer and happier lives as long as possible. From small infant children to the elderly, everyone needs pharmaceutical care. Sometimes it can be a matter of life and death if medication is not available to the public. Pharmacy as a career would be a wise decision if a person could withstand the amount of education the profession entails.
I thought being a pharmacist would give me the opportunity at what I hoped to achieve, to offer patients answers to their questions about their diseases which they know very little about firsthand. But working in a pharmacy for two and a half years, I realized with every passing moment that as a pharmacist, I would only get the chance to pass on the knowledge which is already known and not exactly offer any new information. I wanted more, and even though I did not have an idea what exactly ‘more’ entailed, I signed up for Microbiology, a class I came to love because of its numerous real life applications such as industrial fermentation, drug discovery in the case antibiotic production and even creating vehicles for cloning in more complex organisms like plants. I especially liked the assignment where we had to run tests in order to identify an unknown bacterium. It was not so much about the correct identification of the unknown as it was knowing what the next tests to run were, based on the outcome of the previous tests.
I pleased to apply to the PharmD program as the program is one area that corresponds to my career dreams. Being part of this program gives one the opportunity to gain an excellent experience in working and collaborating with various health care providers in the ward. But more importantly, it facilitates a practical environment in dealing more closely with patients. Hence, it helps to provide the ultimate health care services to patients. Also, it permits me to carry on gaining different knowledge, skills, and values in addition to those I have already developed during my undergraduate studies. My interest in being a clinical pharmacist was first aroused during my SPEP rotation in the hospital setting where I was really impressed with the role of clinical pharmacists who provide a consistent process of patient care with healthcare teams to maintain the appropriateness, effectiveness and safety of the medication use. Unlike a pharmacist, a clinical pharmacist has a more diversified responsibilities and closeness to direct patient care. Moreover, provides
During the tenure of five years of undergraduate program I studied variety of different courses including Biochemistry, Anatomy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pathology, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmacognosy, etc. but always found myself more inclined towards pharmacology, physiology and pharmacotherapy of all the different courses I studied and with passing time my interest just grew stronger. In the commencement of undergraduate program, studying different drugs and their mechanisms, diseases and modes of their therapy was merely an interest but by the time my undergraduate degree program ended it became more of a passion. It was for this passion that I decided to pursue a post graduation degree in the respective field. Before I could go any further in academics I wanted to have some practical exposure and consequently, I decided to join a hospital rather than a pharmaceutical industry. Hence, after fighting off a tough competition from all over the country I was recruited among the twenty pharmacy graduates in a year lengthy “On-the-Job Hospital Pharmacist Trainee Program” in July 2013 and currently, I am working as a trainee pharmacist in the most preeminent hospital of the country, Aga Khan Ho...
As he made his way through the college experience, he realized BCC could only take him so far. After two years of hard work, he made his way to North Dakota State University, and tried to enter the pharmacy program. Yet, I knew my dad wasn’t into pharmacy, so I asked what happened to that dream, and what a response I got. Dad said, “With the high demand of pharmacists at the time, the program was only taking students whose cumulative high school and college GPA’s were a perfect 4.0, so I decided to switch to polymers and coatings. Yet after I started studying that, I realized I didn’t want to work in that field, so I switched to organic chemistry because the classes were similar.” As he...
Pharmacists often work together in a team with other healthcare professional like physicians and nurses. In the process, pharmacists will give advice to them on the selection of medication, by providing the evidences based on the dosage form, the side effects and possible interaction with food of the medication. On the other hand, pharmacists also take part in research and clinical studies. Recently, pharmacists are recruited to conduct pharmacy-based research in pharmacies. (Swanson, 2005)
My dream about being a pharmacist started when I was in high school, the enthusiasm I have for both chemistry and cancer research combined with the amazement by the human body magnificence encouraged me to think about taking the first step in this path and pursue my undergraduate degree in Science of Pharmacy.