PMH Called

I had applied for a job at the local childrens hospital (PMH) a few months ago. I didn't hear back from them so I assumed that they weren't interested in hiring me. No big deal. Well randomly last week they called me in for an interview. The interview was fine and I was able to answer all of the clinical questions they had for me so that's always good. Anyway, they called me back this week to offer me the job! I was literally speechless. It's a great opportunity and I'm really excited to start working there. Unfortuanly, the position doesn't start until December so I'm going to have to stick it out at SDIP until then.

When I told my boss at SDIP he was very understanding and he is happy to have me work for him until the hosptial job starts. On top of that, later on that day, he gave me a nice raise as well so all in all it was a pretty great day.

After two weeks at SDIP I'm enjoying it a bit more now that I understand their systems. I've noticed that people really like to bring in their old/used/disgusting/dirty medicine bottles/tubes when requesting a product. This really annoys me! They hand it to me and say "I want THIS". How about you write down the name of the product on a peice of paper and bring that in for me. I really don't want to touch your used tube of haemorrhoid cream thank you very much.

At SDIP they don't compound many drugs because they are really not set up for compounding. Last week I did get to make an interesting cocaine and adrenaline cream used for packing a nose post-op. After I made the compound Chris managed to spill the stock bottle of cocaine all over the dispensary while he was walking it back to the safe. Luckly the stuff is cheaper than you might think.

Working at SDIP

This week I started at the new pharmacy (SDIP) for my 2000 hours. So far, it's been alright. Not great but alright. It's a community pharmacy but we fill all of the scripts for a few private hospitals in Perth. This means the pharmacy is run a bit differently than a standard community pharmacy. Sadly, SDIP has terrible systems in place and it all seems VERY unorganized. As a new trainee I find this to be extremely frustrating. I'll get the hang of it at some point.

One of the private hospitals we service is a short stay mental health facility. I ended up delivering some medications there this past week and the place was not what I had expected. It looked like a five star hotel! Apparently a one night stay will cost upwards of $800. Anyway, I hope I don't ever have to go back as I don't plan on doing deliveries. It seems they expect me to be doing deliveries but I've been riding my bike to work so the whole deliveries thing might become an issue.

Nothingness

Since classes ended I haven't been posting even though I've had lots of time on my hands. Actually, there really hasn't been much worth posting. I've been taking it easy. We can't start our internship (2000 hours) until our passing grades are released. This should be by next Monday, the 6th of July so I'll be starting the internship then. I'm doing the internship at a community pharmacy up the road. Other than that i've just been working my standard weekend shift at the pharmacy. I'll be doing three more weekend shifts there and then I will be permenantly at the new pharmacy.

Yesterday was Canada day and so we had our Canadian friends, Scott and Ericia, over for some food and games. We made them pizza which was pretty tasty. I've become an expert at making pizza sauce. The key is starting with tomato paste because it's packed with tomato goodness (and also lycopeine ). We tried to play the "LOST" board game with them but it was super complicated and it turned out to be a bust. We still had a good time though.