One of the first and the greatest lesson I got when I become a student at Belmont University is that whether we are in class or not, every day is a lesson by itself. As I go forward toward my goal, I have grown and learned so much throughout the years to this point. Since I become young adult, integrity was not something I received only as encouragement from my parents but also expected. I came to the full understanding behind the meaning after I become a college student.
There were times when I face the risk of losing and sacrificing my integrity. But these kinds of situation are the one that helps you to hold on the value and understand the real meaning behind word. It means to be true to one’s self moral, value and beliefs. This leads to inquire an answer regarding life and its assets, which comes as a package including education and real life experience at Belmont. Lessons do not start and end in the class, but rather expand beyond and above. There is no boundary or limit to humans desire to learn, inquire and acquire more knowledge.
Real life knowledge comes from people. Learning those lessons requires good collaboration and service. I believe that, the ability to interconnect and collaborate with in a group setting of diverse personal traits and learning environment will result a success. When collaborating with people or developing a team work, one must consider and understand, the difference personal traits that makes up the collaboration. Every person has different interests, culture, beliefs and values that make up their character. Obtaining the ability to identify and measure their weakness and strength as well as behaviors and skills, will ease my decision. I was able to learn effectively and developed strategies for...
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...as a pharmacy student, are always has to look patients interest above ourselves, provide professional advice regarding health and medication use, maintain principles of competence and integrity. Regardless of the challenges to professionalism presented by changes in health care system, students must embrace the responsibilities that come from their profession’s guiding principles, such as the comfort and dignity of the patient, effective collaboration and communication with colleagues.
Communicating and interacting with patients with difference social, cultural and economic background is a very important part of a pharmacist. As a student those individual decision making have had different impact since it require taking responsibility for it. But as a pharmacist, the many experiences that I went through will benefit me in future when I engage with the larger whole.
These differences in origin accounts for diversity in socio-cultural backgrounds and nurses must develop the knowledge and the skills to engage patients from different cultures and to understand the beliefs and the values of those cultures (Jarvis, 2012). If healthcare professionals focus only on a narrowly defined biomedical approach to the treatment of disease, they will often misunderstand their patients, miss valuable diagnostic cues, and experience higher rates of patient noncompliance with therapies. Thus, it is important for a nurse to know what sociocultural background a patient is coming from in order to deliver safe an effective
By working together there is information sharing, improve safety and quality also collaboration gives knowledge to other professionals. (Littlechild and Smith, 2013).what I have learned through working in partnership with other professionals was creating a poster related to what each professional does. Some of the professionals I did not know how exactly they work together in partnership. Example: I was not aware of how a radiology would work with a social work and the outcome of that was that Radiology develop and maintain collaborative relationship with medical colleagues and participates in regular meetings with other professionals activities to meet the needs of a service users therefore they collaborate with Social Workers. By doing a poster and delivering information I learned a lot from the other team members, shared experiences knowledge and skills with other group members. Group work made me realise how it is very important to work in multi-displinary team, the benefit of it and what others can benefit from. During the poster each of the student was from different professional however we all had the question but each had to look at it in each profession perspectives. This gave an opportunity to everyone to go and search for each professional and communicate with the rest of the group the outcome of the presentation. By doing that, we exchanged ideas learned from each other’s skills and used it into practice. I have learned about sharing information with others, learned about communication and
Going to a different country or area of the world can open up anybody’s eyes to see that culture makes a huge impact on the understanding and practices of healthcare that seem to be so common to other areas of the world. When a person lives in one country their whole life, that person may not realize how different the life they live is from someone in a foreign country. If a person is going to receive treatment from someone with a different cultural background, they should be expected to get treatment to respects their own culture. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences having such a diverse variety of students has their own cultural competency definition that states “effectively and comfortably communicate across cultures with patients of differing backgrounds, taking into account aspects of trust in order to adopt mutually acceptable objectives and measures”. In the book Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler, the issue of culture and healthcare are greatly prevalent. Katherine Dettwyler herself goes to West Africa as an anthropologist and her horizons are broadened when during her research she comes in contact with how much culture has an impact on healthcare and everyday life.
Drug administration forms a major part of the clinical nurse’s role. Medicines are prescribed by the doctor and dispensed by the pharmacist but responsibility for correct administration rests with the registered nurse (O'Shea 1999). So as a student nurse this has become my duty and something that I need to practice and become competent in carrying it out. Each registered nurse is accountable for his/her practice. This practice includes preparing, checking and administering medications, updating knowledge of medications, monitoring the effectiveness of treatment, reporting adverse drug reactions and teaching patients about the drugs that they receive (NMC 2008). Accountability also goes for students, if at any point I felt I was not competent enough to dispensing a certain drug it would be my responsibility in speaking up and let the registered nurses know, so that I could shadow them and have the opportunity to learn help me in future practice and administration.
The last aspect in my career that I had to develop is the ability to be prepared at all times. Pharmacy is a full time career that occupies most of your time. It is very important to be always ready to help anyone in need of your assistance. Preparation could be done in multiple ways, but
...rity, as with as much in life, involves a system of interconnected rights and responsibilities that reflect our mutual dependence upon one another. The success of our individual efforts in this course, as with so much in life, depends on all of us conscientiously exercising our rights and living up to our responsibilities. And the failure of any of us--even just one of us--to do what is required will diminish, however slightly, the opportunity for the rest to achieve their goals. That is why it's essential for all of us in this class to practice academic integrity, n both senses of the word practice. For practice today will lay a solid foundation for practice tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, so that through daily practice integrity will come to woven throughout the fabric of our lives, and thus through at least a part of the fabric of society.
Many graduates from LLU School are actively involved in the medical field. The environment surrounding LLU University provides pharmacy students with ample opportunities to serve the co...
Ten Lessons in Collaboration include (Gardner, 2005): 1.Know Thyself - by understanding your values and biases 2.Learn to Value and Manage Diversity – by optimizing the differences among the members of the team and realizing that there is no value in everybody thinking the same way 3.Develop Constructive Conflict Resolution Skills – by redirecting conflicts on a personal level to the task at hand 4.Use Your Power to Create Win-Win Situations – by utilizing knowledge, education and goodwill towards other members of the group 5.Master Interpersonal and Process Skills – by utilizing flexibility, clinical competence and cooperation 6.Recognize that Collaboration is a Journey - by recognizing that it takes time to develop successful collaborative relationships but with each successful encounter, the collaboration process gets easier as trust and mutual respect is
Integrity can reflect upon an individual’s daily, school life because honesty and strong morals can get you through school, and also can differentiate you, or make you unique compared to your class mates, which can lead to leadership in the future and a greater high school and college experience. With integrity students and scholars will be able to succeed in high school. Integrity clearly applies to one’s school life because it can change your perspective on your school life and how to make yourself a better student, in both the present and the future. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), the five fundamental values of academic integrity are responsibility, respect, fairness, trustworthiness, and honesty. So
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 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
First, here is some important background information about Pharmacists. A Pharmacist is someone who is trained and licensed to distribute medicinal drugs and to advise on their use. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook Pharmacists do all of the following: "Fill prescriptions, verify proper amounts of medication to give to patients, check whether the prescription will interact negatively with other drugs that a patient is taking or conditions the patient has, instruct patients on how to and when to take a prescribed medicine, Advise patients on potential side effects they may experience from taking the medicine, Advise patients about general health topics, such as diet, exercise, managing stress, and on other issues, such as what equipment or supplies would be best for a health problem, Keep records and do other administrative tasks, Complete insurance forms and work with insurance companies to be sure that patients get the medicine they need, Teach other healthcare practitioners about proper medication therapies for patients, and lastly oversee the work of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists training."() Some pharmacists participate in compounding, where they create medications by mixing ingredients themselves. Pharmacists tha...
Skills and knowledge possessed by every member is also important for a team to become high performance. Although it is among the most important factors, however, it must be coupled with a good working relationship with every team member and good collaboration with every team member. The members who possess the good skills and wide knowledge will be a useful resource to the team if that team member can share their strengths with the other team members and vice versa. It is usually misconstrued that having skillful and intelligent team members is already enough to make a team work right. This kind of thinking is the reason why most teams, despite all of those competent members they have, fail to achieve their goals. A team should establish one common goal, not to think that way and develop a good working relationship with each member. (retrieved from: http://www.strictlysuccess.com, August 18, 2005) This can be done by self awareness exercises, like the DISC assessment and other assessments or any other kind of self awareness exercises regarding communication style differences. Then these factors and important pieces of information should be taken into full consideration before the actual project is begun. These exercise or assessments can be great ice breakers and mark the difference between a group of individuals merely assigned to a team, as opposed to functioning as...
In order for teamwork to be successful in the workplace it involves building a relationship and working with other people. The ability to work as part of a team is one of the most important skills in today’s job market. Working cooperatively and contributing to groups with ideas, and suggestions benefits everyone. A key to team effectiveness
...sionate professors who helped shape the type of teacher I would like to be. They found ways to talk to me in a manner that motivated me to want to improve, all while honoring the work that I have already done. I would like to bring this same moral into my classroom, when a child is motivated, passionate,and self-aware of their needs, strengths, and weaknesses, they can and will push themselves to improve. Students do not solely care about how much knowledge an educator has, but they care about how much these educators truly care. We shouldn't judge a person on how educated they are based only on test scores. The most educated person may not be the most suitable person to teach children. I may lack the test scores, however, I do not lack the passion and motivation needed to be a great teacher. If we cannot celebrate small successes, the final outcome is less weighted.