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IPPE Institutional Rotation: 2 reflections that discuss unique experiences
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Institutional |
| Write Reflection Here:: | Going into my institutional IPPE rotation I did not think that I would have much desire to follow an institutional career path. I knew that I did not have a strong interest in working in a hospital setting, and I did not think that I would find long-term care very interesting. However, after my last four weeks, I have changed my mind. I ended up enjoying long-term care pharmacy more than I expected that I would. One thing that changed my mind was seeing the strong relationship between the pharmacists and the providers. Because the pharmacy services over fifteen facilities, I found this very surprising. The pharmacists were very familiar with all the providers, which enabled better patient care. Another thing that changed my mind regarding long-term care pharmacy was seeing how the pharmacy is patients-only. This makes medication reconciliation and management much easier for both the patient and the pharmacy which I enjoyed. |
Personal Wellbeing Reflection
- What do you do well to take care of your well-being? List 2 things.
To maintain my well-being while in school, I try to exercise at least 200 minutes per week and participate in at least one social activity on the weekends.
- What is one area of well-being that you would like to improve upon? Give 2 specific things that you can do to make that improvement. What are some barriers to making this improvement and how can you address those barriers- list 2.
An area of well-being that I would like to improve upon is my tendency to linger over not achieving a desired grade on an assignment. One way to improve this is not to discuss grades with other students. A barrier to this is staying at school after completing exams. I will try to start taking walks after exams to clear my mind and focus on future assignments. Another thing I can do to improve in this area is try to reflect on what I did well, despite the outcome. This can be hard because it can be much easier to linger on the things I did wrong, but focusing on the positives may improve my outlook for subsequent assignments/exams.
IPPE Institutional Rotation: 2 reflections that discuss unique experiences
| Date: | 09/15/2023 |
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Institutional |
| Comments: | |
| Write Reflection Here:: | During my current institutional IPPE rotation, I was surprised that my site allows the technicians to count and keep track of the CII medications. While this is allowed legally, most pharmacies do not allow technicians to handle CII's just to have better traceability if anything were to go wrong or appear missing. I learned this while being shown the pharmacy. One of the technicians who has been with the pharmacy for a very long time showed me how they store the CII medications and maintain the perpetual inventory log book. I was surprised because at my community site and other community pharmacies that I have worked in only the pharmacist, and sometimes the interns, are typically allowed, by company policy, to handle the CII medications. It was nice to see that my current site has a technician that they dedicate to be allowed to handle the CII's because this can help balance the workload that the pharmacist's have, while still being safe. I also realized that having a designated technician who is allowed to handle the CII medications at this sight is not as much of a risk as if it were a community site such as a CVS. This is because this pharmacy is closed-door and there are always the same people inside the pharmacy, where as a community pharmacy has customers, floating pharmacists and technicians, which would make it much harder to find out who is accountable if something were to go missing. |
IPPE Community Rotation: 2 reflections that discuss unique experiences
| Date: | 08/31/2023 |
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Community |
| Comments: | |
| Write Reflection Here:: | Overall, I have had an extremely positive experience on my community IPPE rotation. This rotation reaffirmed my career goals. The patients at my site were friendly and had a high level of respect for the pharmacists at my site. I had one experience that made me doubt my goals. I had to call another pharmacy regarding an issue with a prescription that they had transferred to us. The pharmacist at the transferring pharmacy was highly unfriendly, making me doubt my skills. This was the only encounter I experienced on my rotation that made me question my career goals. One thing I experienced that reaffirmed my career choice was seeing how much the patients at my site respected the pharmacists. When there would be payment issues, and the pharmacists went above and beyond to ensure that the patient did not have to pay the pure cash price, the patients were genuinely grateful to have pharmacists who demonstrated that they cared for their patients. |
IPPE Community Rotation Reflections: Part One
| Date: | 08/18/2023 |
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Community |
| Comments: | |
| Write Reflection Here:: | Description - Describe the event. A patient was prescribed a topical antibiotic cream. I put the prescription through data entry with the patient's insurance information. The prescription was then sent to adjudication with an insurance rejection. The patient had Mass Health as their insurance provider. I learned that Mass Health does not cover the cream formulation of mupirocin, only the ointment formulation. I asked the pharmacist about this, and she told me that Mass Health can be very picky about formulations that they will cover and will typically be very specific about one particular one that they will cover. The pharmacist told me that since the prescription was written for the cream formulation, we needed to call the prescriber and ask if it would be alright to switch the prescription to the ointment formulation. I called the prescriber's office and spoke with the physician's assistant who wrote the prescription. I informed her that the patient has Mass Health which does not cover the cream formulation. I asked if we could switch the prescription to dispense the ointment formulation. The prescriber then confirmed with us that this is an alright substitution so we were able to switch the prescription to the mupirocin ointment, which was covered for the patient. II. Feelings - Describe the feelings you experienced during this event. At first, I was nervous to call the prescriber because I was scared that they would ask something that I would not know the answer to, and I did not want to feel like I was bothering them. I first confirmed with the pharmacist I worked with that I would say the correct things to the prescriber. She assured me that I would do this correctly, which made me feel much better about calling. During the call, I was nervous, but the assistants and PA I spoke with were extremely friendly, and I felt much better about calling the office. III. Evaluation - What is your evaluation (positive or negative) of your experience? Overall, this was an extremely positive experience for me. IV. Analysis - Why do you feel this way? This was a positive experience because I did not feel confident going in, but the providers I spoke with were very friendly and receptive. This boosted my confidence in myself and made me more comfortable with the idea of having to call patients and providers in regard to their medications and prescriptions in the future. V. Conclusion/action - What actions do you plan to take based on what you learned from this experience? This made me much more aware of how some people are still learning and new to pharmacy and prescribing. Even if I or someone else needs to call a provider or if a provider calls the pharmacy with questions, everyone is always learning something new, and people genuinely appreciate kindness and patience. It is also better to be friendly and patient with people to build mutual respect and encourage others to ask each other when unsure rather than assuming that you are doing the correct thing. |
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SPPD I: Reflection on the book "Who Moved My Cheese?"
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SPPD I: APhA Career Pathway Survey Results
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IPPE Institutional Rotation: IPE Fall field encounter
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Institutional |
| Interprofessional collaboration occurs when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care. (WHO, 2010): | - |
| Interprofessional education occurs when learners, educators, or health care workers from two or more health professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective interprofessional collaboration and improve health outcomes. (adapted from WHO, 2010 & Buring, et al. AJPE 2009;73(4): article 59): | - |
| During this IPPE rotation, did you interact with any of the following (please select all that apply)?: | Physician (MD or DO) |
| During this IPPE rotation, did you interact with any of the following (please select all that apply)?: | Medical Assistant - Practitioner Nurse Nurse Practitioner |
| If you selected "Other" or "Other - Student" from the list above, please list the type of health care professional you interacted with here:: | - |
| As you complete the following questions, please think about all of the interprofessional observations and/or interactions you had during this IPPE rotation.: | - |
| I was able to place the interests of patients at the center of interprofessional health care delivery.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to act with honesty and integrity in relationships with patients, families, communities, and other team members.: | Strongly agree |
| I was able to recognize the roles and responsibilities of other health care providers.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to recognize how the team works together to provide patient care.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to recognize limitations of my skills, knowledge, and abilities.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to express my knowledge and opinions to team members involved in patient care with clarity and respect.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to listen actively to other team members.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to encourage ideas and opinions of other team members.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to engage other health care professionals in shared problem-solving appropriate to the specific patient care situation.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to reflect on my individual performance for improvement.: | Strongly Agree |
| Please provide one example of an interprofessional observation and/or interaction that you had during this IPPE rotation in one to two sentences.: | The pharmacist I was working with had to call a prescriber regarding a prescription for both Plavix and pantoprazole. Normally this interaction would not be significant, but the patient was being discharged from the hospital for GI bleeds, which is the effect of the possible interaction of these two medications. |
IPPE Community Rotation: IPE Fall field encounter
| Date: | 08/30/2023 |
| Rotation Type: | Wor/Man IPPE Community |
| Comments: | |
| During this IPPE rotation, did you interact with any of the following (please select all that apply)?: | Dentist - Practitioner Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant - Practitioner Veterinarian Nurse |
| I was able to place the interests of patients at the center of interprofessional health care delivery.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to act with honesty and integrity in relationships with patients, families, communities, and other team members.: | Strongly agree |
| I was able to recognize the roles and responsibilities of other health care providers.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to recognize how the team works together to provide patient care.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to recognize limitations of my skills, knowledge, and abilities.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to express my knowledge and opinions to team members involved in patient care with clarity and respect.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to listen actively to other team members.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to encourage ideas and opinions of other team members.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to engage other health care professionals in shared problem-solving appropriate to the specific patient care situation.: | Strongly Agree |
| I was able to reflect on my individual performance for improvement.: | Strongly Agree |
| Please provide one example of an interprofessional observation and/or interaction that you had during this IPPE rotation in one to two sentences.: | I had to call a doctor's office to clarify directions for a patient's prescription when there were two different sets provided on a prescription. |
SPPD I: Reflection on the IPE Book Club "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
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Pharmacy Administration: Business Plan Project
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