Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. How does a clinical pharmacist communicate to patients or their families?
2. How does providing patient consultation help the patient?
3. How does providing patient consultation help the pharmacist?
4. What is a pharmacist's main concern or goal when providing a consultation?
5. Does performing consultations help you perform better as a pharmacist?
6. What types of communication are there besides a consultation?
7. When you give a consultation, do you have a method for it?
8. What factors determine whether or not a patient will adhere to their consultation?
9. What is the most challenging part of talking to patients?
10. How does providing this service improve the profession or hospital?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. Nee mentorship at VA (Veteran's Affairs) Ambulatory Care Center.
2. New contact is Jonathan at 
3. By 1/10 it is 2.5.
4. Shadowed a pharmacy technician named Jason as he produced undoes medicine.

Blog 10: Senior Project, The Holiday

1. Over break my mentor was not around, and I began to talk about looking for another place to mentor, so
    I was contacting Pomona Valley and Citrus Valley.

2. I learned that even though my mentor is an abundant source of research, it is of no use to me if I am
    unable to see him due to how far away he is and his short hours. But I will keep in contact with Dr.        
    Campbell for research.

3. I would be forced to talk to Dr. Campbell or one of his co-workers who excels in patient consultations.
    But I would prefer to first go to another hospital and see how my potential "mentor" can help.

December Update

Happy New Year! I just turned 18 so yay I get to sign up for the draft!!! Anywho I enjoyed a nice relaxing winter while my mentor left for vacation. Speaking of my mentorship, he and I finally realized that our schedules are too different and the hospital is too far for my parents to take me, so I am looking at Pomona Valley Hospital for potential mentorship. Wish me luck!

November Update

Over Thanksgiving break I saw my mentor Wayne Campbell on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I volunteered for about 2 1/2 hours following one of his pharmacy technicians, Jason. He showed me how they package drugs the hospital orders, how it's barcode is loaded into the hospital system to keep track of it, and how he orders drugs. He also showed me the IV bags, different medicines, pills, capsules, etc. I'm not sure how to post pictures yet, but I will put them up ASAP.

EQ

1. "I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."

2. 
a.  This meets the rule of three.
b.  This is not an EQ because the wording does not seem to make sense. How can you find the best way to convict someone?
c.  This is not an EQ because it does not take a stance and can be answered through pure information.
d.  This meets the rule of three.

3. What are the safest and most efficient ways of providing the correct medication to patients?
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12/2/2013 EQ
 What is the safest and most efficient way of delivering the correct medicine to patients?

Research and Working EQ

1.  What is the most efficient method of providing patients medicine?

2. Having a pharmacist on the medical team to correctly diagnose illnesses.
    Having the ability to compound medication that is tailored for specific patients.
    A hospital's ability to order, package, label, and distribute their own medication 
    through an air tube system.

3.  Observing the Beverley Hospital's pharmacy department and how they are able to distribute medicine around the hospital.

4.  My mentor is Dr. Campbell, head of the pharmacy department at Beverley, and he is relevant to my EQ because with his help I have been able to use an apparent problem in pharmacies as my EQ.