PRP's inner side nagging

Unbelievable! I actually have already survived 10 months of the hectic life without thinking to quit. I wonder what has made me become so determined. Yeah, I guess it would be “my stubbornness”.

For you who do not know me yet, yes I am a pharmacist. I thought I have chosen a wrong degree to study, I thought I would be a zombie who just memorizes each and every drug name, I thought I would give up this career in few months’ time. But, I have made it, and I am still in love of this professionalism.

I wanted to share my experience in hospital every two weeks, or at least once in a month, but somehow the busy schedule of mine has kept this delayed again and again, and I eventually have forgotten this until now. Don’t get me wrong, I am still busy at the moment, but I think I can say I feel less tensed up now.

As we all know, all pharmacy graduates have to work in hospital as a provisional registered pharmacist for at least a year in order to become a real one, which we call “Pegawai”. To earn this title, you have to learn in any way you can, from your preceptors, from your colleagues, from staff nurses, from doctors, from patients, or from mistakes (which sometimes we can’t afford the mistake).

At first we thought “yeah, finally we got a job after 8 months of waiting, I am gonna rock it and you all just watch me shine”. But somehow, sometimes a newbie has to be exploited fully with the so-called purpose “We are training you to be an excellent one”. Yes, true, I did actually learned a lot, including not only the knowledge, but also the humbleness to ask, the independence to work alone, the experience to deal with rude patients and last but not least the courage to meet some proud fella who tried to tease us yet never get defeated! I must say I am so worn out by this job, but at the same time I do feel grateful for having this opportunity to work in the busiest hospital in Johor, also one of the top 3 busiest hospital in Malaysia as I get exposed to more.

Yes, I have nagged a lot and I am still nagging throughout this year. My friends have to listen to the same complaining each time we met, thanks to them who bear much with me. Anyway, anyhow, it is not far anymore!

I can make it!

Jiayou!

Tips to become a good, better, best one:

1.       Pick up your courage to ask. Ask anyone, not only your preceptor or your colleagues: patients, staff nurses, doctors, dieticians……

2.       Don’t give the stupidest answer in this world “I don’t know”. You may take time to find out the answer, ask your friends, whoever, but don’t say you don’t know.

3.       Never get defeated. You may do some mistakes. Don’t have to live in sadness due to only 1 mistake. Learn from it and don’t make the same mistake again.

4.       Compromises. We work in a team and so we should respect each other’s differences. Of course, we also have to compromise with patients. If something can be solved nicely by little compromises, then why not?

5.       It is your responsibility in every prescription that you are involved or every medicine that you have given out or any decision that you have made. So when you have done a mistake, please don’t try to push the responsibility to others such as “I didn’t do wrong. I see it is like this, so I copied this. It is someone did wrong first, I just copied” or “I waited (not doing his/her job) because they told me wait”. Stupid idiot self-declaration, you would just piss people off by saying this kind of shit.

There are many many more tips for you and me to be a good one. Why don’t you share with me as well? Comment below or private message me. TaTa.