Blog #5- Pharmacy
1. My responsibilities in pharmacy were..
to help the pharmacists distribute and keep innovatory of the medications.
2. New knowledge I learned this week were learning the names of some of the drugs and what categories they fit in. I also learn how to distribute medication to different parts of the hospital with the tunnel system.
3. The best thing that happened was being able to stand with the pharmacy tech and help her put medications into bags and bottles.
4. The worse thing that happened was being in a very slow and dull work environment, because you really don't get to see any cool things in pharmacy.
5. This week was fair, because I'm more interested in the more fast paced medical jobs.

Technology observed
The tunnel system, and The IV room (I didn't get to go in but she showed me things through the window)
Diagnostic Procedures
I saw where they keep the clot busters, and the stuff the inject into veins to see if you have a blood clot, these are both used in diagnostic procedures.
Therapeutic Procedures
I was basically surrounded by them, inhalers, allergy medications, chemo, and many pain medications.
Disease/disorders
One of the techs was getting some chemo packaged for a cancer patient
Medical terminology
Rx, antihistamine, diazaphram, and many more medicine names

Assessment of the Environment
All of the personnel are ready to work, they keep their desk very neat and organized. The counters where they package the meds is very clean and neat. They have to constantly keep innovatory on their computers to make sure they always have the right number of meds in the system. If someone needed chemo and the computer said they had a dozen pills, and they only really have 2, this would be a major issue.
Observation
The personnel are very open to teaching you. This one lady kept asking me questions that I had no idea of. But of course she told me the answers. They are very open to the idea of us their, they really like teaching kids about the pharmacy.
Knowledge
I learned that for oral meds they use amber colored casing so the nurses know this is for oral use ONLY and really dark bottles used for meds are for meds that can be deactivated by light.
Evaluation
My personal experience was not as great as some of my previous weeks. The pharmacy is just too slow paced for me. I'd rather be running to the ER with the respiratory Therapists. It was a very good educational experience though, I learned a lot about different drugs that i might need to know later on in my career.