Thursday, December 31, 2009

Week One at PMH

My first week at PMH went really well. It was a pretty slow week because the clinics are currently closed for the holidays and lots of staff are on vacation. I picked a good week to start because it was a super short three day week. Tomorrow will be the first time that I've ever had a paid day off and I'm really looking forward to it.

The department seems really nice. There are 52 staff so it's pretty big for a pharmacy department I think. The intern from last year has been hired on so right now he's my mentor. I'm in the main dispensary at the moment so I get to see some of everything. They're using some terrible software on the dispensing computers so it's been slow going this week. Apparently the department is getting new software in a couple months so as soon as I get the hang of this one I'll have to learn a whole new system.

This week I did a lot of compounding which was nice. One of the compounds was a diazoxide suspension took forever to make because it involved opening 200 indivudial capsules to get enough drug.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice to hear things are going well at the new job . . .

Unknown said...

I am tres jealous that you get to do so much compounding...it is like baking, but so much more rewarding!

It was super weird that you got paid today to sleep in, but also super fantastic! Too bad I had to lift boxes to get paid today. LOL.