For my once quarterly blog, I will talk about my pharmacy school rotations so far. They are each six weeks long and consist of going to various and assorted sites throughout the state, or, if you are particularly ambitious and want to go through all the work, the country or even the world. Since I'm not that ambitious and preferred to have someone else do most of the work, I chose to do all of mine in Colorado.
My first one was in a hospital. It was my first experience working in a hospital and was interesting. The end of my first day came to an end when I passed the "mortuary guys" as they are called wheeling someone out of the hospital in a body bag. Then I remembered that people tend to die in hospitals from time to time. But overall it was pretty good, I got to see lots of interesting stuff like a PCI and a knee surgery. I also learned what hospital pharmacists do besides sit in front of a computer and do order entry. Once I had to do some research about what could medications could be causing a problem that a patient had, and typed up my response and it got put in the patient's chart. A few days later I was reading a progress note on the patient and the physician that wrote it mentioned my sheet. I wanted to tell everyone: "I wriote that." But I refrained from doing so. I had to drive quite a ways to get there every day, so I'm glad to have that part over with.
My next one is doing diabetes management at a community pharmacy in a small town. It starts tomorrow and should be interesting. I'm especially excited about not having to commute. It can't take more than 5 minutes to drive across the whole town, so that should be great.
