OMG met my first brat on9 after a nong nong hiatus

Oo

Saw her again when I went upstairs. She also went up for her rotation about the same time as me. She said hi, I said hi. I said bye, she said bye. Too many people around =(

My preceptor decided to toss me to do bedside counselling oreadi. Did a few on Friday courtesy of my ICU pharmacist. Luckily my OP training quite thorough - action packed counselling. I was reputated to be a zhao cai mao. Every where I go seem to get flood. Now at upstairs my preceptor pointed out, " So it's you ar?! The other day I MC but my phone ringing non-stop that there's not enough beds!"

May be I should have worked for a big chain pharmacy instead? But then what for? Pay still the same.

I wan more pay:

Why pharmacists resign

TodayOnline Sep 21, 2007

Better work conditions, pay may help stem high turnover rate of these professionals

I refer to the report, "MOH to recruit more pharmacists from overseas" (Sept 17). It was reported that of the 1,482 pharmacists on the register here, less than half are involved in direct patient care, such as practising in hospitals, polyclinics and retail pharmacies.

This is a worrying figure. While I applaud the ministry's efforts to recruit more pharmacists from overseas, it should also delve further into why pharmacists are not practising and find ways to stem the drain.

I know a pharmacist who has worked in a retail pharmacy and in one of the restructured hospitals. During her stint with the retail pharmacy, she worked from 10am to 10pm, with only half an hour's break for lunch and dinner. This included Saturdays and Sundays, when business is most brisk. Most times, she was the only pharmacist during that 12-hour stretch. When she was working at a hospital, it was common to see her and her colleagues having lunch at 3pm, after they attended to the last patient from the morning crowd. At times, she was called back to the hospital even though she was on leave. She worked till 3pm on Saturdays, even though the official knock-off time was 12.30pm. Sundays could become working days when duty called — working one Sunday per month is common.

Such is the life of a pharmacist, be it in hospitals, retail pharmacies or polyclinics.
Increasing demands on pharmacists without adequate compensation leads to many leaving the profession.

Perhaps it is time to review pharmacists' salaries. They are, after all, highly-trained medical professionals who run specialised clinics and make rounds with the doctors to ensure patients fully benefit from treatment.

Until we address the concerns of pharmacists and plug the outflow, increasing the number of pharmacists will not ease the crunch. Sourcing from foreign supply is but a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
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Letter from Darren Chong

Link: http://www.pss.org.sg/main/content/view/558/2/

I was told now that's now a drought at OP because one of my fellow pre-reg is a DCG. If not, every Wed can collect at least 20 interventions liaoz.

I missed the big space for dispensing in OP - got dispensing bench for you. But now upstairs no space to display your wares. Totally messed up my routine - my asthma counselling very the messy liaoz. So more got TV distracting in the A class wards @@ Just 2 weeks no dispensing can be come ga-bra verli the fast.

<3 all the "P" prescribing licence holders who call to check dosing before prescribing. Lidat better for everyone. Dun shy, I wun eat you or scold you one. Afterall, that's what pharmacists are for - rational drug therapy.

Need toilet

For women who compren not enuf toilets in their workplace, come to my workplace. I feel very deprive with the need for me to control my bladder, running to the different floors to look for a vacant cubicle to let go. If I were on diuretics then gone case.

Still very gong tou with my administrative roles in the upper floors as there's not much of those below.

Met some nice nurses and doctors but some just wanna AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So missies, misters and loo-goons which cat do you belong to?

Wah liao eh

A few days no do drug counselling already seeing oneself off the mark liaoz.

I need practice if not I'll start muttering jibberish in front of the patient.

My new rotation seems very interesting. Interventions largely done by the pharmacists while the PTs do nearly totally technical work. Very often they prefer to leave the higher level work for the pharmacist. Checking of doses are more controlled and stricter. A lot of HOs prescribing @@@@@@@ and can be a headache at times when they are too yaya until we have to call the MO or the registrar or the consultant. They need a gentle notice that they do not do pharmacotherapy in skool not like the pharmacists. A lot of delays.

Not so fast paced but very intensive. <3 the sign that one of the senior pharmacist placed on the dispensing window:

"90% of medication errors are due to interruptions"

More peace to do our clinical work and less interruptions and other nonsense.

I really feel sorry for the Missy and Mister students who have to act as kah kia for the RNs - have to run up and down to the pharmacy to collect meds - my advice to them, bring a note pad just in case got some things you need to convey or you need to remember bed number =/

Met a nurse who likes to feed me alhabet soup and one super kang jiong MO who did something really unprofessional - he used his consultant's name to press our pharmacist down. That consultant is caring and nice - way to go to bring down the consultant's reputation. I really recommend that MO to have a sit in with the pharmacists so as to understand what we are going through and our workflow. Never gave us proper notice in therapeutic changes then start nagging away. Quit watching too much House - we are not pushovers - we are crossovers.

Badly need company for dinner on Sat. If not I'll face the four concrete walls of DDMS again. YYY they all on call or fasting @@