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Pharmacy Essay

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“Helping people on their path to better health” is a quote used by CVSHealth, I first heard it during the orientation for my pharmacy technician job. I love this quote because it really defines my purpose for wanting to be a pharmacist in the simplest way. My journey to becoming a pharmacists consist of why I selected pharmacy as a career, future goals, and my backgrounds that will help me achieve the goals that I set for myself.
I came into college knowing that I wanted to work in the medical field, but without really knowing what profession I wanted to pursue. There were many reasons why I wanted to pursue a career in the medical field which eventually led to pursuing a pharmacy career. One reason was wanting a career where I’m regularly …show more content…

One of my long-term goals is to start an outreach program or help an existing one where I can educate my community on the importance of drug regulation, interaction, and always updating their physicians and pharmacists on what drugs they’re using and how they respond to those drugs. I feel like patient care should go further then what a job description says, and we should be helping educate our community outside of the workplace when given the opportunity.
My educational background consist of taking high level science courses which I excelled in and my professional background consist shadowing a local pharmacists for 40 hours during a week where I got a closer look at an everyday pharmacy environment, also I’ve recently begun working at CVS as a Pharmacy technician to get more hands on experience in a pharmacy setting. These experiences I believe will help me excel in pharmacy school where I can further build up my background to achieve my goal of becoming a retail pharmacist. One of my long term goals is to help educate my community on drug problems and regulations, to achieve this goal I believe my professional and personal background play a key role. My professional background in the future will help me achieve this goal, it will consist of becoming a pharmacists who’s established the respect of his community to where I’m looked at as a credible speaker by the community. As for my personal background, I think having grown up in a small

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