My Career In Pharmacy

Everyone desires to feel loved, valued, and appreciated. A career in pharmacy opens a door into the lives of other to make a difference. My intentions, now and as a pharmacist, ensures the value of each person by offering quality patient, guiding them with healthy lifestyle choices, and respecting each individual. Being a pharmacists offers a chance to care for those in need. Opportunities to brighten some one’s day with a listening ear or a smile comes occurs on a daily basis. One of my favorite quotes whose author is unknown, states that a smile can change to world. ‘’Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.’’-Unknown

From there, I began to explore more of what a career in pharmacy would mean and take the steps necessary to pursue my dream. As I reflect on the past and look forward, becoming a Doctor of Pharmacy is still the clear answer to achieving both my immediate and long-term goals. My immediate goal is to work towards additional education to be better equipped to utilize my undergraduate degree. In particular, I have a strong interest in applying my knowledge of biochemistry to the area of pharmacy in order to better understand how different medications work, how to help patients understand their medications, and how to solve problems to better care for patients. Ultimately, through achieving a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, I desire to develop a meaningful career that would allow for life-long learning and impacting lives.

My strongest impetus for the study of this major is pegged on the personal urge to improve the lives and health of those around me. I would only be able to serve the health of others when I am fully acquainted with the knowledge of pharmacy, which to me is one of the noblest professions. I am deeply concerned about the welfare of others. My experiences, especially as I visit hospitals form a significant part in influencing my choice to study pharmacy. At one point, I felt very bad when a pharmacist in a hospital I had visited was very indolent in serving a patient. All human beings would feel adored and valued when they are given appropriate attention in regard to their health. The health profession has a mission geared towards safeguarding people's health and that mission is perfectly in sync with my desires. I want to be exceptional, to do my best in caring for people, and attend to their interest to the best of my knowledge. I admire nourishing hope to desolate patients and always give them a reason to

My childhood unleashed a desire to know how things worked and why things happened; this soon flourished into a more specific interest in the field of Pharmacy. Medicine fascinated me, driving my obsession to understand all of the dynamics of pharmaceutical drugs. My studies in Biology at New Jersey City University, and my current occupation as a Certified Pharmacy Technician, led my desire to go further with my education in pursing an advanced degree as a Doctor of Pharmacy. My undergraduate career has prepared me extensively, such as requiring that I take on a wide range of science-based courses including Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology. My hard work and dedication led to me being on the Dean's List for a number of semesters. I was also honored to be part of The National Honor Society of Leadership and Success and The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society.

As the first generation in my family to go to college I learned the importance of education. I graduated from Benedictine University with a Bachelors in Science and an Environment Certificate. I became intregted by pharmacy when I started to spent countless hours at a hospital watching my grandfather go in and out of surgeries and treatments for cancer. Seeing the different medication being handed to him inspired me to understand biological and chemical processes that happened. A Pharmacists, role is to aim to help patients treat illness by introducing new developed treatment of medicines with a range of patients. I began to take special interest in memorizing all my grandfather’s medications and how practical and clinical aspect pharmacy worked.

I feel like as humans we tend to make a routine for ourselves and before we know it we cannot go beyond it. The effort to learn something or do something different becomes tiresome. Our lives are conditioned to be a routine; eat, sleep, go to school (college now) and most dreadful of all, learn. It is not come as a surprised as when school is over we come home and toss our book bags anywhere, but, near. We do not want to be reminded of learning (until the next morning). So, for me my life became a sort of routine and I was totally fine with that. I was okay with my typical boring high school life with seeing the same friends and teachers and doing basically the same thing everyday.

Ten years ago I set out on a journey to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming an influential pharmacist and healthcare professional within my community, however, I was unaware of all of the challenges I would be faced in pursuit of my dreams. I began seeking work while I was enrolled in my first semester of college. During my job search, I discovered a job posting for an entry level pharmacy technician at a community retail pharmacy. After reading the job description, I knew that I was on the right track to finding a career that incorporated my love for both chemistry and biology. I began work as a pharmacy technician where I learned the ins and outs of the industry and decided to enroll in the certified pharmacy technician course that was available at my college in hopes of continuing my goal of one day becoming a pharmacist.

I received my Bachelor’s degree in physics in 2009 in Vietnam while I witnessed two deaths of my two 65 years old uncles due to medical related errors. Their unnecessary deaths at that relatively young age struck all my family members. I asked myself whether, if someone in my family had worked in the health care field, it might have been possible to save my uncles’ lives. As a science major student in Vietnam, I felt an urge to apply scientific knowledge to improve the situation. Over time, I came to realize that, in order to make a difference, I would need to gain a deeper background in understanding the mechanisms and the principles behind the field of medicine, a pharmacy major.

Moving towards in accomplishing that, I have to continue to practice my communication skills. I have to be working to attain information about insurance and their benefits, and become an expertise in it. If I have a command over that, I can aid towards achieving better outcomes of the patients. The staff members of the pharmacy and my preceptor on IPPE has guided me in making me understand their patient profile system. I esteem to learn, as I progress further in my education. I will endeavor to correlate the knowledge which I will gained with the practical setting of the pharmacy. Through this IPPE, I have acquired an ability to learn and flexibility to change, as the field of pharmacy is constantly transforming. I will attempt to carry myself updated, as newer medication are being marketed. All I have done till today and will do in future, my family always stands beside me to support me. My friends too are supportive, as we do group study. Group studies are a great help during exam time, as it creates a clear picture of topics which are studied. Apart from family, friends and pharmacy staff, FDU has opened their doors for me in accomplishing and achieving my

The core element of service to others in pharmacy was ingrained in me from an early age. At 10 years old, I experience the joy of helping others through my religious institution, which I quickly learned is more fulfilling than helping myself. Being 10 years old limited me from doing any major work so carrying out minor works like assisting the elderly and cleaning the prayer hall became an integral part of my daily life. These activities on a regular basis made me realize that choosing a profession of helping people would be in my best interest.

Choosing a career was no simple decision. As much as I would have liked a life-changing event to help with the process, my decision to pursue pharmacy was a gradual one. It started from my experience at a summer program for high school students that exposed us to different career fields in health care. Listening to the representatives’ seemingly endless enthusiasm for their profession and learning about how they apply their knowledge really gave me a grasp of what a fulfilling career can be. While a pharmacist was not among the health care representatives in the program, this experience allowed me to better appreciate health care.

Through listening to academic lectures, participating in conversations with fellow colleagues as well as professors and mentors, giving my own hand to the community to hear their dilemmas and access a probable solution for their needs, and developing my own experience in the Pharmacy workplace, I have acquired a set of skills and relationships that have helped me learn a little bit more every day about entering the field of Pharmacy.

The flow of the medical community is dependent on every person employed there. The harmony it creates does not only come from the doctors or nurses, but the janitors, surgeons, receptionists, and even the pharmacists. Each job is necessary in order for the hospitals to function properly; for instance, the doctors diagnose the patient with their illness, prescribe them medication to cure it, and send them to the pharmacist, who then gives them their medication and sends them home. However, some jobs are overlooked more than others and do not receive the proper credit, like the pharmacist. Pharmacists are recognized for dispensing and sorting drugs, but their jobs help educate patients over their prescription and uphold the

My decision to pursue pharmacy as a career started with my first job. I got hired at a retail store shortly after my 18th birthday, and one month later was hired as a cashier in the pharmacy. This start in pharmacy was completely unplanned, but overly welcome to me at 18 with no plans for the future. Due to strange circumstances I was pushed strait into a technician training program that was finally completed 5 years later, also due to strange circumstances.

I selected pharmacy as my career because I had an interest in science, and I also knew that I wanted to be able to directly and/or indirectly help people for my career. Caring for people is one of the most important aspects of my immediate and long term goals. During my junior year of high school was when I really decided that I wanted to go into healthcare specifically. We found out that my grandmother had cancer and only a few more months to live. She had hospice nurses taking care of her at home, but my mother and I went to her house every day after work and school to help take care of her. It was difficult to ensure that she was happy and taken care of while completing all of my schoolwork, but I worked through it by keeping a planner