Personal Statement : Pharmacy Tech

A growing demand has emerged in the healthcare field for well-trained pharmacy technicians to assist the pharmacist in many practice settings by assuming greater responsibilities. These may include order entry, filing prescription orders, compounding sterile preparations, cart fill exchanges, inventory control, operation of automated technology, utilizing the computer system as well as fulfilling other patient specific duties. Well-trained pharmacy technicians in retail and institutional settings are a vital part of the healthcare team.

I like to think of myself as a stick to the routine type of person. I don’t like monumental changes. When I was in high school I use to come in the class sit down, and write note to the end. When I stepped out of class I still always had a question to be answered. In 11 grade reading class there would be times that I would be so lost that I would just put my head down and wait until class end and I would walk out with frustration because if I raised my hand , to ask a question I thought some one might laugh at my question and I would feel embarrassed. Towards my senior year in high school I learned how to over come my fear of facing the real world and asking all the question I need to help me succeed through out life.

Pharmacy is a prolific field of study that is taking a prime position in the world of academia. It is quite demanding and needs completeness and vigilance. Thus, by going through pre-pharmacy, it will help me reshape my educational and career aspirations by bringing into reality what pharmacy entails through prerequisite coursework. I will also be able to come to terms with what the profession has at the end of the tunnel and asses with it marches my career goals. The profession is loaded with numerous employment and personal advancement opportunities, and I am motivated to study pre-pharmacy since it will spark of my innovativeness and optimistic that my future days would be worth the trouble.

Job Description: Pharmacists ensure that medications are used appropriately, and that they bring about the best results. Their responsibilities include professionally interpreting and reviewing the prescription orders written by doctors, dentists, and other authorized health care providers, and also for giving out the medications accurately to patients. The main goal of pharmaceutical care is to improve the quality of patients? lives by the use of medications that have been prescribed in order to accomplish specific results.

My Butler University academic training and intern experience has positioned me to recognize and appreciate the essential role performed by the clinical pharmacist. Although sometimes transparent, it is the clinical pharmacist that is central to a patient’s ultimate successful recovery. This was evident during my clinical rotations, where I directly participated in the optimization of medication therapy to achieve patient-specific outcomes; it is for this reason I am impassioned and compelled to pursue a residency. As a PGY-1 resident, I plan to apply my clinical knowledge in the acute and ambulatory care settings to identify medication-related problems and make therapeutic recommendations in collaboration with other practitioners. Upon completion

So you want to be a pharmacy technician? A pharmacy technician (tech) is more than just pushing pills; it’s more than just counting and knowing medications. A pharmacy tech has wide ranges of jobs too; compounding, preparing and packaging drug orders, mail orders the list goes on. Anyone can be a pharmacy tech with the right requirements. Here is a little information to jump start your journey.

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.

What does it take to become a Pharmacy Tech? Well I’m here to give you a little information on things you need or must have to become one. There are a couple steps you need to take, from having an Extensive Background Check to Immunizations you will need, other items and criteria are just a few simple steps into becoming a Pharmacy Tech.

I am writing this letter to express my interest in your announcement at ‘ www.Inneeded.com’, a job finder website about pharmacy technician position. It is clear from your post that you are looking for a person who have at least two years of experience as a pharmacy technician. I have certain necessary skills and experiences which can be perfectly fit to your requirement. Kindly review my detailed achievements in the attached CV with this cover letter.

I decided to become a Pharmacy Technician originally from High School. My Junior year at Abilene High school I took an elective that covered the basics of different medical fields. After completing the course my junior year, I decided to move forward with the program. So my Senior year in High School I enrolled in dual credit and joined the Pharmacy Tech program at McMurry University. At the time I was also apart of the Abulene High volleyball team. With everything going on between after school practice and games, I had to choose between the two and I chose volleyball. Sad but true because volleyball didn’t take me very far.

I am eager to apply for the full-time position as a Pharmacy Technician Trainee at CVS Health which was located on your direct website. With my recent degree in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University and my practice in customer service roles, I believe that I will be an appropriate candidate in joining your team at CVS Health. Accompanied by my strong interest in working at a retail pharmacy and the dedication that I have to achieve my goal, I will put on my best performance to actively concentrate, understand, and solve problems within a reasonable time frame.

A pharmacy technician is basically an assistant to a licensed pharmacist. It is their job to provide advice, assistance, and medication to the customers, in correlation with the licensed pharmacist. The position of the pharmacy technician is usually behind a pharmacy counter in drugstores, hospitals, and other facilities. Learnhowtobecome.org (http://www.learnhowtobecome.org/pharmacy-technician/) informs that you should be prepared to work with pharmacists, as well as patients.

During the years, Pharmacy has became one of many huge professions to take. Numerous people will tell you that, you do not hanve to go to school to become a Pharmacy Technician; but if you do not know anything about this profession you are going in clueless. Fortis college was my greatest experiance, with the most amazing people people, and teachers. If it was not for school I would definietly not know the accuracy of speed, the multitasking with communication, and computer skills for a pharmacy that is needed.

The career path that I have chosen for myself is pharmacy technician. I have always wanted some sort of pharmaceutical job, and a pharmacy technician seems like a career that would be do-able and enjoyable for me.

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