Blog 18: Third Answer

1. How can a clinical pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?

2. A good consultation is achieved when the pharmacist incorporates palliative care.

3. Palliative care is additional care that is meant to help patients with a chronic or serious illness, such as cancer. Palliative care is not a cure, but helps the patient on an emotional and spiritual level. Palliative care is unique because it aims at helping the patient and their family to continue living the best quality of life.

4. www.palliativedoctors.org/about/faq.html  www.cancer.org/aboutus/drlensblog/post/2010/08/20/the-unexpected-benefits-of-palliative-care.aspx www.patient.co.uk/doctor/palliative-care

5. Palliative care should be incorporated in modern clinical consultations because it has the potential to help desperate patients to continue to live, and to give them a chance to enjoy life.

February Blog pics

More pics I forgot to include from Valentine's Day

February Blog

Not really much happened in February for me. Just more mentorship and here are the pictures:

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Volunteer at the V.A. specifically for meetings or consultations, and extra RC on medical manuals and patient psychoanalysis studies.

2. Getting a signature from my mentor on a spreadsheet and providing my extra RC.

3. Attending meetings or doing meeting minutes will allow me to help my answer 2, and doing extra research checks and viewing consultations will helps formulate my third answer.

4. Done.

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1. My activity because it clearly defined itself as part if my senior project and represented I put a lot of creativity and thought into it.

2. Aside from time, I honestly think an AE. I had an in-depth description on my first answer divided into three parts supported by facts and studies. My sponge and actual activity also incorporated what I wanted to stress about my answer.

3. My answer with information that supported it and my activity.

4. I would've tried to calm down because it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I became too nervous and anxious and skipped slides or completely forgot to mention information.

5. How doctors work to improve by meeting with their peers.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

What is the information you look for first on a patient's profile?

Why are these (or this) information the most significant?

How helpful is the profile in a patient consultation and why is it (or isn't) helpful?

What happens if their patient profile is incomplete or unable to be accessed?

How else do you prepare for a patient consultation?

During a consultation, what do you do if the patient is unresponsive?

What is more important, being able to understand the patient needs or wants and why?

Are there pharmacy exclusive meeting, and, if so, what is their significance?

What do you normally talk about at these meetings?

(If patients were not mentioned) Why are the patients not included?

(If any acknowledgement of self-improvement to staff is not mentioned) How does the pharmacy staff work on improving themselves?

How does the pharmacy staff work on improving as a cooperative team?

How often are these meetings, and do you think they should be more or less frequent?

What do you consider a successful patient-doctor consultation? (Specific details)

What do you consider an unsuccessful consultation? (Specific details)

Under the VA, are there are any objectives you have to complete, and, if so, what are they?

Are there people who come who are not veterans, and need different methods of communication due to age and/or gender?

What is the significance/purpose of meeting with a patient?

Does performing patient consultations make you a better doctor, and in what way?

Do you believe there are more important duties than consultations? If yes, why?

If no, why not?