Hospital Placement

apart from the five weeks of community placements, we have hospital placements too but only for a week and once. it was definitely an experience that i never thought would have an impact on me tremendously. ever since i took the pharmacy course, i had never really wanted to open and run my own pharmacy for i feel the area of work is pretty restricted. i have always took interest in hospital pharmacy but there aren't many stories of successful hospital pharmacists.

when i went to the hospital in Brisbane last Thursday and being exposed to what a hospital pharmacy does on their regular jobs, perhaps i might have the right thoughts on pursuing hospital pharmacy. we were brought into the dispensary and it was amazing to see the different kind of medicines surrounding us. from bottles to vials to capsules to powder....though a dispensary may look small from outside, it was absolutely huge in the insde.

we were brought to the sterile compounding unit too where we were able to watch the pharmacists compounding eye drops, total parietal nutrition, chemotherapy drugs, ointments and even intravenous fluid which definitely left us speechless and amazed.

in fact, i learnt on that day that a hospital pharmacist is capable to choose to specialise in one particular area or field such as the renal department, neurology or even cardiology field. the pharmacist who brought us around was working in the renal department and her responbilities were mainly on renal drugs and wards. that's where i would love to be.
a specialised pharmacist in cardiology.

the biggest weighing machine i have seen in my life.

xoxo,
the future to be pharmacist. =P