My Career In Pharmacy

I believe it is very important to have personal goals and strengths; to always have a positive mindset for yourself, your environment; and the people around you. Growing up, my parents instilled, what I think, are good morals and values such as: integrity, determination, professionalism, discipline, time management, leadership, and teamwork. As a certified pharmacy technician of almost five years, it is very important to display these traits in the workplace making sure my job is done correctly and efficiently, as I have people’s lives in my hands. My learning strengths consist of hard work, dedication, willingness to learn, and the ability to teach others. I have some weaknesses as well, but my biggest is having a loose tongue. Knowing your

What do you want to do with your life? It is a question that almost everyone asks high school and college students, but for many, it is a dreaded question that is difficult to answer. For me, that wasn’t the case, as ever since my sophomore year of high school, my answer has been to become a pharmacist. My passion for pharmacy stemmed out of the opportunity to shadow a pharmacist who showed me a wide variety of career possibilities within pharmacy. I was intrigued by all the options that began on the foundation of learning science, understanding medications, and caring for patients.

Growing up in a family where my father worked as a pharmacist with both my older sister and older brother selecting pharmacy as their profession, I would be lying if I said that this did not serve to influence my decision-making in any form or shape. It was not until my freshman year of high school when I chose to volunteer at my aunt’s independently-owned pharmacy that formally opened its doors for business that I began to seriously consider my future profession. Initially, because business was severely slow and lacking, I did not find much interest in the field of pharmacy as I was primarily spending my time setting up equipment, organizing the store, and moving boxes around among others. It was not until a few years later when the business started picking up steam and more customers began to file in that allowed me to further interact with more people and consequently, increase the variety of drug medications that the pharmacy had in stock. In turn, this presented me an opportunity to familiarize myself with drug names such as Amlodipine, Gabapentin, Lorazepam, Metformin, and many more. Admittedly, even just seeing and holding the manufacture’s bottle in my hand sparked great interest in myself at that time. I was simply fascinated by the different drugs and found the role of a pharmacist to encompass much more than “dispensing medications.”

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.

Merci Clinic is a small clinic providing free health care services to adults that have limited income and without medical or dental insurance. The staffs of Merci Clinic consists of mostly volunteers. My job as volunteer at the clinic is like a pharmacy assistant. For my future career, I planned to work somewhere in the healthcare industry. As I narrowed my options down, I wanted to do a job that relates to medicine. I was just interested medicines and want to know more about it. I think that a pharmacist will suit this interest best. My ultimate goal is to research and discover medicine that will cure the incurable illness. Besides the point, I feel that volunteering at the clinic as a pharmacy assistant is slight advantage for my career.

Throughout my life, I have always strived to improve not only the lives of people around me, but to enhance society as a whole. Living in the community of the Gulf Coast has provided me with the opportunity to put my passion of helping others into action. Even though I am attending the University of Mississippi this upcoming fall and will be emerged into unfamiliar territory, I will use my basic values and passions to continue serving my hometown and college community even after I graduate.

In the beginning of my junior year of high school, my english teacher told us to write a topic about our career goal, which I knew what to write. I wrote about becoming a Medical Assistance like my older sister, who was my role model. She have show me what motivation and hard work looks like coming from a person whose was the first generation to come America during the Khmer Rouge. She really work hard throughout her school and finally able to become a Medical Assistance and working at Kaiser Permanente. Therefore, I knew that after high school I would go into the medical field. When I started attending Maric College also known as Kaplan College, which I had taken the Medical Assistance Program for 11 months. On the last month of the program, is when we started to attended to our externship clinic, where I was sended to Gentry Vu, M.D., Inc. of obstetrics and gynecology. When I extern there as a student, I excelled my experience, which lead them to hire me on the spot after I was finishing my extern. I took on the job and worked there until almost four years and five months that I decided to quit due to I needed to care for my dad's health and continue school. I become my dad care provider until this day and love what I'm

Through my upbringing and exposure to the healthcare profession through parents' careers, I have had the opportunity to witness their commitment and empathy towards their clients, and have grown to appreciate the work that medical professionals do. Pharmacists are ambitious and reliable people that interact and connect with their clients while providing treatment. They make personal sacrifices to ensure the wellbeing of others and I genuinely aspire to make that kind of difference in the lives of those struggling with illnesses while being in a profession that really interests me.

I love this post! I am having a similar experience. I am a caregiver, but recently I got a job as a Pharmacy Technician in training and as I am studying Health Care Management. I realize that some aspect of being a pharmacy technician came across my studies in health care. Not only will I be trained and received a pharmacy technician license through my job, now I will be gaining a license and a college degree. At this point, I am not sure where the two will take me but, I am looking forward to learning and obtaining as much knowledge as I continue to pursue my studies.

A pharmacist is a healthcare professional who is an expert on pharmaceutical drugs and how they act to fight disease and improve the health of the patient. Pharmacists are responsible for the implementation of drug therapy with the intention of improving the quality of a patient’s life. Some examples of such improvements include curing diseases, reducing or eliminating a patient’s symptoms, slowing the process of a disease, and preventing disease. A pharmacist works with patients and other healthcare professionals in order to design, implement, and monitor a drug therapy plan specifically designed for that patient. Not only do pharmacists advise doctors and patients on prescription drugs, but they also provide information on the best

Having a career is a standard of life that is necessary for the well-being of humans and providing comfort for their families. It is very important to plan ahead for the career that you want to pursue in the future. Doing this can help you make the decision to keep pursuing that career or find a different career that interests you. Having a plan for your future can help you find a job that you are passionate about, and researching your career can help you become more qualified for that job. In this day and age it is getting harder to find a good paying job without a college degree, so it is important to succeed in high school so you can go to college and get a job that has a good salary.

The facts on pages 398-400 relates to me and the career that I envision after graduation because of the differences within a health care field that is a melting pot. What I mean by melting pot, I mean by the different culture, background, and ethnicities that shares a common goal. While working with people and building relationships with them, it helps to have some perspectives and understanding of their culture. In order to work in rural communities, we need to have understanding of people cultures, build strong alliances, and learn how to effectively communicate with one another. The career I chose which was pharmacy, deals with many different cultures from the people I would be working with to the patients I would be dealing with. I must

Over the past few weeks I have been researching my interests, values, and goals. Throughout this research a lot of things that were already evident to me, were proven for a fact. My interests included researching different aspects of science and data analysis. Analysis has always been a big part of my life because I analyze everything. My values have been proven to be centered toward helping people and being around people. These interests and values are almost equivalent with what my goals in life have been over the past years. For the past few years I have wanted to become some type of pharmacist or physician. In this paper, I have researched what being a pharmacist and physician

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