Snpha Reflective Report

As an active community service participant and learner, I am determined to continue my community service and expand my knowledge on the most current pharmaceutical debates by becoming an active member of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPHA) and the American Pharmacy Student Alliance (APSA). I will bring my prior pharmacy experience and unique background to continue to succeed in my studies and seize every opportunity that USC has to offer to become a pharmacist who is intelligent, caring, detail-oriented, conscientious, and empathic. With USC’s diverse population and school spirit, I will benefit from of the strong Trojan family bond to become engaged with on-campus opportunities and build professional relationships. “Fight on!”

My talents and experiences have prepared me to support the Metropolitan State University School of Nursing mission and prepared me for graduate education. I currently work in healthcare as a certified pharmacy technician and work with diverse and underserved population daily. Unfortunately, I can see how communication barriers, access to health care, physical barriers, and monetary barriers can prevent individuals from living up to their full health potential. I have had patients call our pharmacy to tell us they are unable to pick up their medications due to a lack of transportation access and an inability to pay for their medications. I have also had patients who are unable to take their medications regularly also due finances and an inability to read or understand the directions of their medications.

This essay will detail a critical reflection of two key learning experiences that I encountered during my team observed structured professional encounter (TOSPE). Originally designed by Harden and Gleeson (1979), TOSPE takes the form of a mock multi-disciplinary team meeting. As a result, it allows healthcare students to work collaboratively as a multi-disciplinary team- developing non-technical skills and cultural competence.

Experiences such as my S.C.A.P.A. membership which granted me the opportunity to network with a diversified workforce of Physician Assistants who attended the annual conference for aspiring P.A.’s. Another attribute was when I worked for Dr. Leslie Pelzer, as her personal assistant. Through those two years of my employment I gained a firsthand insight into the life of a busy doctor. I was able to participate in patient visits by taking vitals, handling the details associated with all of their records, such as requests, the billing, and making the copies. I handled pharmaceutical questions with both the pharmacy as well as the patient. I learned about the different classes of prescription drugs and the various regulations that correlate to each class. Moreover, through my experience as a volunteer at the Barrier Island Free Medical Center, on John’s Island, S.C., I am assured that I made the right choice. Barrier Island’s primary objective is to give healthcare for the under-served residents of John’s Island which is considered a rural part of the surrounding Charleston area. The thing I love most about this clinic is that there is only one person on salary which is the Operations Manager, everyone else is a volunteer, even the physicians! The diversity of its practitioners really gives allows the patients to have options in health care. The doctors who volunteer there are all

I have been a Resident Assistant (RA) for about five weeks. Training to be a RA was tiring but very educational. I learned how to handle multiple situations that could happen with me being RA. After training, it was a series of task that I had to complete as a RA. Those task included: completing forty-four Room Inventory Form, putting in fix it tickets, etc.

I volunteer at Wagner Pharmacy, which is located in an underserved community. I help to improve patient adherence through medication education and Medication Therapy Management programs. I also perform hypertension screenings and assist the pharmacist in preparing patient assessment forms to furnish hormonal contraceptives, Naloxone and smoking cessation therapies. I will bring my unique pharmacy experiences to UCSD and become an exceptional healthcare provider.

As I completed the UNSW Professional Development Program , I was invited to apply for a pilot project called ‘NSW Global Scope’ offered by StudyNSW NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet and Sydney-based education services and technology start-up, Intersective during Semester 1 2016.

I learned that I need to take notes while reading and annotate the important sections I feel I will need later. I also found the information about evaluating print and online sources (75) very helpful, Recently I have been struggling with evaluating my research sources properly along with finding the important information through the clusters of text. My initial reaction after I noticed the actual questions I should be asking myself, was to reject it. Yet, I found myself accepting it the longer I read. After I read more in depth about “Assessing an Author's Credentials”, I came to the conclusion that I need to do extensive research on the authors along with the sources themselves. The pages publishers play a big role in the credibility of

During the first class period we were able to discuss the syllabus and gain a general understanding of what we can expect from SOCW 502, as well as the competencies that will be covered in this course. We further discussed what we, as students, are expected to do to be successful in this course. After discussing the syllabus we were able to have a group discussion about the semester project as well as the weekly reflective journals. This gave us time to get acquainted and further discuss each person’s area of interest, which will be helpful in selecting a topic for the semester project. We were then able to learn more about the instructor of the course. It was also interesting and entertaining to hear about the educational background of the

InTASC Standard #10: The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the professions.

My conception of the class, before entering, was that a struggling writer turned professor would be going to great lengths telling us how to write and how not to write. Of course, with me being a veritable writer who happened to need to take a writing related course not for the improvement of my writing, but for the acquisition of the credential. I was going to stubbornly disregard all reproaches, suggestions, and ‘improvements’ and trudge forward headstrong in my unalterable style.

The artifacts section of the portfolio is present the works I have done through my time in the MPA program. The artifacts range from the assignments I needed to complete from my courses to my internship experience. The purpose of this section is to displace how each of the work helped increase my skills and competencies as a public administrator.

My experiences working at Pawkets, a student-run business I founded with 12 of my peers, and Diyi Holdings, a company that provides tutoring and online supplementary education for grade school students, has sharpened my analytical skills. This experience combined with my strong communication and technical skills I gained from growing a YouTube channel from scratch to 10,000 subscribers and taking numerous Quantitative and Business Intelligence courses at Babson College will allow me to add great value to Vistaprint as a Business Analyst Intern.

To begin, the overall experience for this simulation was a good one. I was able to practice a skill that I am not a hundred percent solid on. A big reason for me not being solid on Foley insertion is due to the fact, I have never done one on a real patient. I have always made sure to take advantage of times when I can practice, but is so different when compared to real patients. This simulation also provided me a chance to practice my assessment skills, which made me realize that even when you have done something so many times, you can still end up forgetting something. I have to remind myself that a big part of it is just repetition; the more you do the better engraved it is in your brain. For example I always make sure that my patient has

As I am still working on the project, I could say, so far it is going well. Though I am very familiar with the instructions and the background information, but there is always something to learn. So, from doing this project and researching warning issues, I learned that Lovenox could cause the blood clot around spinal cord and produce permanent paralysis if the patient is having any epidural procedure and lumbar puncture. Since our patients often have lumbar puncture done, I will be paying close attention on the timing of Lovenox and lumbar puncture procedure. Furthermore, I will spread this knowledge to everybody I work with.