APPE Rotation Report

In the classroom, it is very important to have lab safety. In a hospital pharmacy, lab safety is essential to ensuring a safe dosage to each patient. Throughout my time interning as a pharmacist at the UVM Medical center, I was often observing how much pharmacists used DoseEdge software. DoseEdge automated system that assists the process of dose routing and preparation. This product of Baxter has allowed the tasks of pharmacy change. The focus of my project was “How does current and future technology affect efficiency and accuracy in pharmacy practice?”. Through my research of Baxter’s website, articles about their product, and reports of advancing technologies in pharmacy, I found that DoseEdge is very successful in productivity and safety in the workplace. Before DoseEdge, everything was required to be prepared by hand. This required a lot of responsibility for for pharmacists and technicians to make the correct dosage in the quickest manner. Medicine is very important to a hospital, so it is very important to have the most efficient way in preparing and distributing it. This allows pharmacist to have a better way of double-checking the preparation of drugs. In each IV hood, there is an overhead camera that takes pictures of what drug and how much of it the technician is using. Pharmacist can view multiple orders all by computer without the need of being physically next to the technician. There are also requirements to have two pharmacists check the same order for high risk drugs like chemotherapy. This

is essential to any discussion of issues related to current and future pharmacy technicians.[14,15] Policy statements of a numof national pharmacy associations are listed in the appendix. A summary of key events of the past half century follows.

When accepting a position with Laboratory Corporations of America (LabCorp), I was unaware of just how important what our company does on a daily basis is. Our motto is Innovation, Quality, and Convenience (LabCorp, 2015). LabCorp’s story is about all of the hard work and dedication that goes into diagnosing someone correctly from something as simple as an allergy or a life-threatening disease. A story is something that is true, repeated, and emphasizes something with particular value (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). Innovation is the backbone of my organization. With breakthroughs in Science happening every day, LabCorp is committed to being a state-of-the-art testing facility. We are constantly looking for new ways to test illnesses- one of the

According to the Clinical Leadership & Management Review, (2008) healthcare spending is currently taking up 16.2 percent of our nation’s economy. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, cost is expected to rise to twenty percent by 2015. Nearly, seventy percent of medical decisions are based on laboratory tests, yet the costs of lab tests account for only four percent of the total in health care costs. Annual sales for clinical laboratory testing in the U.S. in 2001 were thirty-five billion, and are expected to grow at four percent annually (Johnson, 2008). Upon looking at annual global growth rate, laboratory testing is projected to increase by 5.5 percent (Johnson, 2008). As a result, laboratories as a business plays a significant role, on how health care dollars are spent. Additionally, laboratories offer a tremendous service for a reasonable price by providing quality, state-of-the-art services and fair reimbursement that is essential.

work. I was given an insight into how pharmacists perform their tasks, and learned that it

As a professional in the Pharmaceutical field, David Hanlon finds many benefits in an association with the American Society for Quality (ASQ). This organization spans the globe, offering each member or affiliate a place to share ideas, learn through specialized training, and receive certifications in their field. The tools provided to Hanlon through ASQ are vital to his decades of career success.

student and scholar. I have over 6 years of consultative reimbursement and sales experience in a broad range of complex medications including Biotechnology and Oncology. This includes; revenue cycle management, reimbursement, teaching institutions, hospitals,medical office, infusion centers, specialty pharmacy, billing and coding, insurance including Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans. I have experience teaching at the community college level and working directly with medical staff on a daily basis. I have current working knowledge of the field and my unique experience and research objectives will contribute to diversity in the graduate studies

As a double major in biotechnology and biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, cancer research fascinates me. There are still so many questions unknowns and many challenges to be solved. It was not until last year, when I discovered my passion for research, that I was able to learn more about myself. For ten weeks, I worked in a pancreatic cancer laboratory at the Mar Institute of Medical

On my recent technical rotation I had dental, culinary arts, and cosmetology. The first technical shop I had was dental. The second technical shop I had was culinary arts. The third and final technical shop I was cosmetology. I hoped I would at least like one of the shop.

During my experience at Asterand Bioscience in Detroit I learned about the daily activities of laboratory assistants. This experience has helped me prepare for future labs which I will do in college and hopefully in my future career. Having working in the lab and learning the new technologies of DNA/RNA isolation it has changed my outlook on pharmacists and how they use the DNA segments and gel electrophoresis to find new ways to cure diseases and find out the genes involved. I shadowed Jean Mackenzie for 17 hours during my stay at Asterand Bioscience; I enjoyed her guidance during the labs. Jean also showed me behind the scenes of the company, I was able to go to meetings and file through paper work in order to have “Tissue Tumor” be delivered.

Anderson, C. (2010). Presenting and evaluating qualitative research. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 74(8), 141.

"I see your point, Juan. I felt the same way, too. This course was interesting, though, because it didn't focus on crunching numbers. I have some ideas about how we can approach making improvements in prescription accuracy, and I think this would be a great project. We may not be able to solve it ourselves, however. As you know, there is a lot of finger-pointing going on; the pharmacists blame sloppy handwriting and incomplete instructions from doctors for the problem; doctors blame pharmacy assistants like me who actually do most of the computer entry

As technology becomes more sophisticated it helps pharmacists to make their workflow more efficient. Pharmacists

These themes will be useful for understanding the past and potential errors in the processes to improve the medication and patient safety through recommended set of preventive actions to advancing the safety in the pharmacy compounding sciences. The study will benefit the organization to maintain the high quality standard of compounding medication and the potential risks to patients will be minimized.

Related to my learning goal of safe medication administration, I prepared cue cards, studied the Mosby skills website, passed med. quiz, and reviewed CNO medication standards. I continued to follow the safety and security rules and regulations in the