It hv been quite some time i dint update this blog. So, wanna know what happened to myself lately? And yes, last week i’ve been posted to Penang Hospital to work as a pharmacist there. For the first time, i am very excited as the hospital is not so far from my home. So, two of classmates also accepted there, Nasira and Fauziah.
So, we report for duty at 3rd of August and starts working imediately. So of us need to go to open account bank as the hospital only accepted certain bank for paying salaries. So on that very day i start my work as pharmacist with really basic job, doing filling. the first time i thought it was very basic, but after sometimes, i realized that filling drugs from prescription need to comply with certain rules and policy. For drugs that listed as A-list drugs, that is expensive and not so many available in hospital, we can only fill and dispense for 1 month top but non A-list drug like Metformin, we can supply up to 2 months max. Other policies include local purchase and certain drugs can be only prescribed by specialist or consultant physician.
The pharmacy is very hectic, the person doing filling cannot sit for hours! going, running, stagerring everywhere just to find the location of the drugs to be filled. Thank God to the pharmacy assistant students that are very helpful in assisting me finding drugs and doing extamporaneous preparation. Sometimes they AWOL and i have to do the extampraneous preparation myself but most of the they do not do anthing except being tremendously helpful. The FRP and older PRP also very helpful, so, it really helps me getting use and adapt to my work.
Next Monday, The pharmacy service will be extended to 24 hours compare to 16 hours before this and now i have to equip myself for duty calls (in malaysia we say it “on calls” that is grammatically inapropriate) and working for extended hours. Believe me, i’ve chosen this path, i know i’ll survive.
