Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacy technicians work at pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist. Their main job is filling prescriptions according to doctors’ orders for patients. Technicians measure out correct amounts of medication from larger containers to prescription size containers. They also add drugs to intravenous solutions. All of their prescriptions filling work is rechecked by a pharmacist before medications are dispensed to patients or customers.

Other duties of pharmacy technicians are:

Checking inventories and ordering supplies.

·         Receiving and checking in supplies.

·         Waiting on customers

·         Keeping pharmacy work areas clean

·         Helping fill out insurance forms

Pharmacy technicians work in retail pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and some large industrial complexes.

Salary:  $15,000-$25,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take math, science (especially chemistry), and typing courses in high school. A high school diploma is usually required to begin pharmacy technician training. Two year courses leading to certificates are available at most community colleges. Six month programs are offered at privately operated schools.

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Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be a pharmacy technician because it involves math and chemistry, which are the two subjects I don’t like.

Student Success Statement

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined.”

-Henry David Thoreau

  

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined.”

-Henry David Thoreau

 

Reflection:

 Our dreams are the direction in our life, our purpose of living. As we plan out our life, we should walk confidently towards those dreams. Just don’t let your dreams just be dreams, make them come true. We can all have a fantasy world where we would like to live, but if we don’t try to make it real, we’ll only live there through our imagination. Take action to bring dreams into reality that we can be proud of the life we live in. We just need to understand that our plans or dreams should be placed in the hands of God before we even try to pursue them. He is the one who decides where we will be heading. He already has a plan for each of us that we don’t know about we just need to trust His will. Not everything we dream of will come true because God decides what’s best for us. Choose the right.

   

                                     Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacists prepare prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners. They review the prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then start to prepare the medicine. They weigh, measure and even mix drugs. When the medicine is ready then they give it to the prescribed patients or customers.

Pharmacists answer any question the patient or customer might have about prescribed drugs or even over-the-counter drugs. Pharmacists work in hospitals, clinics, health departments, universities, grocery or discount stores. For those that work in a store they are responsible for not directing customers with wrong medicine.

Salary:  $33,000-$51,000

Educational requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school classes (including AP or IB) available in English, science and math. All pharmacists must graduate from a college of pharmacy. Normally it takes at least five years to earn a pharmacy degree. To earn a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree, Phar.D., requires at least six years.

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 Reflection: I think I would like to be a pharmacist; it sounds interesting, where seriousness and responsibility is needed.

Student Success Statement

“I will persist until I succeed” – Og Mandino   

Reflection:

 Persisting means to stay strong in your goal, even though there is difficulty around you. Life will brings adversities that will not only try to cause us to fall but to give up and when we persist no matter what, your success is just around the corner. This is a great quote to live by because our goals can be big or small but as long as we persist we will succeed.

My example of persisting is graduating high school. When I stepped in this school I determined myself to persist no matter what until I graduated and received my diploma. Throughout my years in highs school, difficult situations came into my life but I stayed strong and I’m almost done. These last months in highs school are actually the hardest and most stressful because I get this laziness (or what the teachers call it “seniroitus”) but I know I need to persist and I will succeed. I’m trying my best and I know that if I just in God, He will give me the strength to persist any difficulty.                                                            

                                                        Perfusionist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Perfusionist operates circulation equipment during medical situations when it is necessary to temporarily and artificially replace the patient’s circulatory or respiratory functions. This occurs during heart surgery and similar operations. Perfusionists also control the temperature of patients during surgery. Their duties include:

~        Operating heart-lung machines

~        Administering some types of anesthesia

~        Administering some types of medication

Salary: $50,000

Educational Requirements:

A high school diploma with a strong background in biology and chemistry is required to be accepted in Perfusionist training programs. Admissions preference is given to students with college science work or experience in respiratory therapy and medical terminology.

Perfusionist training programs are given at academic health centers and medical schools and universities. They emphasize hands-on, practical training. Course length varies, but for the school to be recognized by the American Academy of Cardiac Perfusionists, the curriculum must include the supervised performance of 150 procedures to include 20 pediatric and infant cases.

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Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be a Perfusionist because it’s not a field that interests me.

Student Success Statement

  

“Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE.

Ø  TALENT will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Ø  GENIUS will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Ø  EDUCATION will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”   

                                           -President Calvin Coolidge (30^th president of U.S. 1872-1933)

 

Reflection:

Persistence is the key to success and there can’t be anything to take its place. Many have talent but are too afraid to use it, many are geniuses but are afraid to show it, and many have education but don’t know what to use it for. The only way to succeed in a goal is to first have determination to pursue it and no matter what or who comes along to bring you down, you always have to be persistent. Persistence is the voice that tell you to not give up when you what to throw in the towel. For the fact that we think were not gonna make it, we start losing strength and start giving up little by little. We all should have persistence in anything we do but most of all have faith in ourselves.

   

   

 

Patient Representative

                                   

Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient representatives work for healthcare administrators to address the concerns and special needs of patients and their families. They evaluate patient satisfaction, investigate complaints, collect information about patient dissatisfaction, work with departments to resolve patient problems, and educate staff.

Patient representatives work in hospitals, nursing homes, other long-term care facilities, and in public health agencies

Salary: $20,000-$40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Requirements differ, but most employers prefer college graduates with backgrounds in health or social services. Experience or course work in conflict resolution is also valued.

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Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be a patient representative because it doesn't catch my attention.