...PHARMACY CAREER 1 Pharmacy Careers Daniel F. Bohmer Saint Leo University PHARMACY CAREER 2 Finding a career within the pharmacy profession holds appeal for many reasons: a strong job market, high pay, work equality, divergent career opportunities and favorable working conditions in a profession that consistently ranks at the top in Gallup’s annual poll of most trusted professions. Careers all across the ever-evolving health care industry have seen consistent growth in demand over the last several years, with no projections for slowing down. Pharmacists can look forward to higher than average employment opportunities. The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), projects a 25% growth in demand through 2020. This increase is attributed to an ageing population, advances in medicine, increased number of people with insurance coverage and the expanding role of pharmacists in patient care. Additionally, pharmacy students have the envious distinction of a nearly 100% job placement in their career field within a year of graduation. Another appealing aspect of the profession is pharmacists enjoy a relatively high median salary. In the most recent statistics published by the BLS, the median wage is nearly $115,000 per year. Earning potential is projected to continue to rise due to the predicted high growth in jobs, without a corresponding increase in the number of graduates entering the profession. When it comes to work equality, careers in pharmacy continue...
Words: 1197 - Pages: 5
...I am a first generation student pursuing a medical career. Since my great grandmother died of cancer in 2004, I was interested in medicine. I gained interest in pharmacy my sophomore year in college from a college roommate who was also pursuing medicine. She gave me a different perspective on the career field. Since this encounter, I have shadowed several different pharmacists located in Columbia, South Carolina. I began to research the different career paths a pharmacist could take. Clinical pharmacy is my ultimate goal. While working at a retirement center, I worked with a clinical pharmacist and physician on a daily basis. As a caregiver, it was my duty to let these individuals know how the residents reacted to the medications I administered to them. The clinical pharmacist was the second pair of eyes for the doctor. I plan on working in the hospital environment helping treat cancer patients. Having family members and people from my hometown lose their life from this disease, makes me want to pursue this career even more. My ultimate goal is to help treat and save as many lives as I can....
Words: 709 - Pages: 3
...In focusing on my career goals, I have decided to work as a hospital pharmacy technician while obtaining my PharmD and to, therefore, join the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The organization's emphasis on inpatient pharmacy makes ASHP the perfect organization for me. Becoming a member of this organization will afford me the opportunity to network with countless inpatient pharmacists and technicians in the country. It would also give me access to ASHP's continuing education, which I feel will be more useful since it focuses on topics that are specific to my inpatient setting, as opposed to the generalized topics covered in courses offered by other organizations. The financial aspect of obtaining and maintaining professional...
Words: 406 - Pages: 2
...Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary Rita Ben-Cherqui HCS/531 September 9, 2013 Professor Richard Harley Smith Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary In Health care members of a healthcare team plays many important roles to ensure the delivery of healthcare is appropriate care to provide each patient to the best of his or her abilities. A pharmacist role is critical to the quality of healthcare and delivering the best care. The pharmacist’s role is critical by delivering quality care. In the article “Occupational Outlook Handbook, By Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013) Pharmacists dispense prescription medications to patients and offer advice on their safe use. Career Description The career of pharmacists concentrated in the correct interpretation and proper correction of administering the prescriptions along with dispensing the product describe by the FDA. Pharmacist are the approval and last check before the product is dispense out of the pharmacy and given to the patient for the patients’ personal use. Most pharmacist are either in a hospital setting or drugstore and are responsible for the drugs they dispense to the patients but pharmacist also practices as wellness providers, promote health, clinicians, and industrial pharmacist in pharmaceutical companies...
Words: 825 - Pages: 4
...one of the most critical factors that inspired me to seek a career is the quote by Andrew Carnegie, “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” I incorporated this principle into my individual value system, vowing that I will work with vigor to accomplish life endeavors. My contact with pharmaceutics commenced early, which is because my family owns a non-profit pharmacy where I have worked and volunteered. However, growing up in Bangladesh, a pharmacist was a civilian without any formalized training who owned a pharmacy and sold medication. Hearing about a different concept to pharmacy in 2010, science fair at my university sparked my interest. After that I did a lot of research on this new career and attended open...
Words: 692 - Pages: 3
...elementary school has some sort of “career day” where the children dress up as what they dream of being when they grow up most kids dream of becoming an astronaut or a princess however, I dressed as a pharmacist. My mother is a pharmacist and at the time I looked up to her and she was (and still is) my hero and that was the reason why on the sheet of paper where we wrote what we were going to dress up as, I in my first grade chicken scratch handwriting wrote “farmasist” and showed up to school in a white coat and a bottle full of M&M candies resembling pills. Now so many years later I am hoping to accomplish my ultimate goal of becoming as pharmacist. Don't get me wrong, the path to deciding that Pharmacy is the career for me was not ultimately decided that day on career dress up day. Through out high school I excelled in math as well as science and knew I wanted to work in medicine and ultimately help people but I wasn't completely sure what that entailed. As my senior year approached an ending I decided to take a leap of faith and go to a school 500 hundred miles from my friends and family on a full ride scholarship. Here I realized that if...
Words: 629 - Pages: 3
...daily lives. I have become fascinated by Pharmacy as a career because it brings together Science and Maths which effects directly on the lives of people in the community. Pharmacists are now more actively involved with the patients and have become more accessible to the community and I am looking forward to the challenge of career that involves life long learning. With knowledge of Mathematics I can analyse and solve problems and gained the skill of producing written and illustrated results for a mathematical problem. With Maths, I am able to calculate the accurate dosage of the drug which is required for the patient in relation to hospital pharmacy. I can bring skills from Computing that can directly relate to a career in Pharmacy. Coursework in computing has enabled me to tackle complex subjects such as building a system via computer programming. I have pursued many activities that have given me experience in this field of study. I am a certified pharmacy technician and work for Walgreens Pharmacy branch in Odessa, Texas. From this, I have learnt the insight of being a Community Pharmacist and dealing with prescriptions, which will prove valuable in the future. This has given me the opportunity to use my initiative and enabled me to interact with various kinds of situations with different people such as dealing with the consumer’s problems. This has helped me gain responsibility, which I know will be required in the career of Pharmacy. At University, I would like to contribute...
Words: 311 - Pages: 2
...ever growing field of pharmacy. People assume when it comes to pharmacy it’s a guy or a girl that stands behind a counter, counts pills all day, and sells them, there is actually way more to it. Pharmacy is a very dynamic field of study it’s not just someone who stand behind a counter all day, there are different types of pharmacy careers all over the country such as ambulatory care, nuclear, and of course the retail pharmacist. I will go into more detail about each of these later on in the paper, but first I want to explain and give you an idea of what it takes to be a pharmacist and show you the positive and negative aspects of the field. What it takes to be a Pharmacist, depending on where you apply to pharmacy school you’re going to run into different styles of prepharm curriculum. What I mean is some schools might require a 2 year associate degree while others may require a 4 year bachelor’s degree of Chemistry or Biology. One thing that you will run into with all Pharmacy schools though is a PCAT, which stand for Pharmacy College Admittance Test (AACP). This is a test brought around in 1974 to help eliminate student who are more likely to fail out with in the first year of Pharmacy College; the average score of acceptance for a PCAT fluctuates from school to school (PCAT). Once someone has made it through perquisites of pharmacy and successfully entered pharmacy school, they are going to spend at least 4-5 years of professional school. Pharmacy school is split up into...
Words: 1516 - Pages: 7
...The need for prescription medications is drastically increasing, making pharmacy technology to be one of the fastest growing professions in the country. If you have an interest in a medical career and a passion for helping and interacting with people on a daily basis, then becoming a certified pharmacy technician may be the right path for you! Day in the Life Pharmacy technicians work in pharmacies and health care facilities under the direction of a pharmacist. Most of their time is spent interacting with customers and patients, gathering the information needed to fill prescriptions, processing payments, and arranging for pharmacists to meet with customers if a customer has a question about their medication or health. They are also responsible...
Words: 374 - Pages: 2
...Pharmacy is an intriguing, and mutable field in our society today. A particularly attractive feature of this career is the wide variety of opportunities that one is afforded. The versatility in having a Doctor of Pharmacy is quite rewarding and promising. Nevertheless, it is essential to know ones intentions and motivations in considering a career in Pharmacy. My interests are engrained in my desire to be an active component in the enhancement in others health, to be conversant in topics relating to different areas of healthcare, and acquire the means to be able to grow, and evolve in this profession. I've always wanted to be a pharmacist. I can remember being an adolescent going to the local pharmacy with my grandmother. I admired the way our local pharmacist always dressed in a nice clean white coat; he looked very relaxed and personable, she would give him her prescription, and he would give her something that would improve her quality of life. It is through this observation that my interest in this profession sparked. My character is built on the principle of compassion. I have always had fervor for caring for other people and aiding to their well being. I am searching for more meaningful experiences in the field of pharmacy although I have played an important role in health care by being an intake coordinator for a mental health agency. When I visit a pharmacy I am met with enthusiasm and care, especially when I am consulted on my medication. Pharmacist gives the patient...
Words: 555 - Pages: 3
...concern for the well- being of the patient. The pharmacists role is to dispense prescription and over the counter medications to patients, and offer their expertise in the safe use of them. They also provide advice on leading a healthy lifestyle, conduct health and wellness screenings, administer various immunizations and supervise pharmacy technicians. (“Occupational Outlook Handbook”). Pharmacists must also collaborate well with other health care professionals in order to monitor and review the most effective medication therapies for their patients. A career as a pharmacist can be a rewarding profession but in order to be successful, a pharmacist must be well trained, organized and focused, and be willing to be very versatile. In order to become a pharmacist one must attend a higher institute that offers a pharmacy degree. In 1992 all colleges and universities in the United States voted to make the Doctorate of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) the only type of degree one can obtain in order to practice pharmacy. (“Becoming a Pharmacist”). Schools phased out the typical five year Bachelors of Science degree in Pharmacy to a six year post-secondary education program to receive a Pharm.D. Admission requirements are usually strict and one must be at the top of their class in subjects Smith2 such as biology, chemistry...
Words: 713 - Pages: 3
...The first job market qualification sought by potential employer is Baptist south medical center in the pharmacy. The employer is seeking education of a high school diploma or equivalent, registration with the board of pharmacy, and license with the state board of pharmacy of Alabama. Some knowledge, skills, and abilities include: Evidence of commitment to continuing education towards Certified Technician Program. Proficient in needed pharmaceutical calculations and the metric system The second employer is Walgreens. Their pharmacy technicians receive some of the best hands-on training in the industry, learning and working alongside dedicated and compassionate professionals. In fact, the Walgreens Pharmacy Technician Training Program is accredited...
Words: 264 - Pages: 2
...Working as an intern during pharmacy school at the Lewis pharmacy in Brandon, SD has taught me much about community pharmacy. As an intern I was able to grow into many responsibilities. When I first started working I had no pharmacy experience and would consider myself very naïve to the world of pharmacy. My initial shifts consisted of getting familiar with the till, serving customers, becoming familiar with pharmacy workflow, filling prescriptions, and completing daily tasks. By the end of my internship, I was able to take on more of a pharmacist’s role by processing prescriptions, calling doctors, counseling patients on prescriptions and over-the-counter medications, and providing immunizations. Looking back from when I first started...
Words: 568 - Pages: 3
...about. The truth is it is never too early to think about your future. I, like many people, put little thought into my future career and now am lost in an unfortunate mix of indecision and anxiety. Not knowing where you want to be in the future is a hard burden to bear. Many of us tend to find out that we only know what we do not want, not what we actually do want. Do we want to be poor? Absolutely not. Do we want a boring job? Of course we don’t. We all want our nice big house, white picket fence, and dog in the backyard. We also want to be happy. These next few paths are ways I might be able to achieve both. I have many different possible interests when it comes to my future. I hope to attend a four year college, and after graduation attend graduate school. Having gone to small schools my entire life, I prefer a small school. I am looking for a school with a tuition under $30,000, but would not rule out schools that aren’t significantly over my budget. I am open to the thoughts of leaving home, yet I am not sure I would survive on my own. None of preferences are set in stone and I am willing to try and consider new possibilities. When it comes to careers and majors, I have considered becoming a pediatrician, orthodontist, pharmacist, or being an english major. After researching all of my options, I became even more interested in pharmacy. A pharmacist helps in the treatment of disease. They advise both doctors and patients about the dosages, interactions, and...
Words: 1293 - Pages: 6
...experiences is most beneficial. To gain my experiences I have joined organizations at LIU and I have been looking for a job in a hospital. I have worked in a retail pharmacy previously, and therefore, now I want to focus more into hospital setting as I have great interest in clinical pharmacy. During my site visits in Walgreens and Brooklyn Hospital, I got the opportunity to figure out in which type of an environment I would prefer to work in the future. To gain my knowledge in the pharmacy career I have joined almost all Professional Development Programs and came across many great leaders. Besides it, I am also an...
Words: 610 - Pages: 3
