Life as PRP

• After graduation we were asked to have an interview in putrajaya. Since it was my first interview i was a bit nervous. But together with friends motivating one another it turned out to be fun actually. We were mostly asked the same question of whether we wanted to work in Sabah or Sarawak. My answer? a definite No... double pay sounds tempting but being separated so far from parents was something i can't bear after one year studying overseas..so when the interview ended everyone was given a acceptance letter n was told to wait for one or two months before we got our posting. One and a half months passed and i got my posting stating 'Johor'. I didn't really like it in the first place but at least it is within peninsular malaysia.
• So on Sept 27th 2006 i headed down to johor with no expectation only thoughts on whether i was prepared for contributing a service for my profession. When i report in to the hospital in Johor Bahru. Met my chief pharmacist and she explained to me about my first year pubillage training and the stations that are available in a tertiary hospital
• And so my first station was TPN. At first i didnt know what it stand for but i told my chief that i preferred that than clinical ward as my first station.So there i met my first friend named Margaret. She taught me a lot and was really serious on her work. I kinda enjoyed TPN because after much oncall i felt i connected to it some way as in a sense of responsibility to my patients receiving my product. It was this station that i met Pei Chin and Hooi Ying as well who really made the station a whole lot more fun.
• After that i moved to next station in Stor where i was taught Local Purchase Order and handling DD...I met two more friends there that is Tay and Lim Hui..everything was going swell for me as i had support from really capable people...my third station was manufacturing which was another relaxing station where we learned admixture n how to make cream n lotion...then I moved on to CDR which is reconstituting chemo drugs ...there i felt a bit trapped in a suit and was really choking in the filter room...Two weeks later i moved on to DIS where our main objective was to answer questions given to us by doctors,fellow collegues and patients based on reference provided..
• 5 stations and i still had no daily patient contact...then the hard stations came ...OPD station was next where i was to dispense,counsel and prepare medication to patients...Words to describe this station : Exhausting, stressful, pressure and hungry... You get the picture =P And before i know it , february came i was in Inpatient station...to me that was the hardest station and most nerve wrecking...filled with unexpected problems and unwanted trouble...perseverance got me through...
• After two months of Inpatient...i went to enforcement whereby i learned a different part of pharmacy..based on law, catching crooks and prosecuting them...it was really fun and less stressful...i really enjoyed my self there...then I was back in OPD after one month... i didnt really like my schedule after that because it was like three and half months of what i considered hard stations hehe...
• But OPD turned not too bad as the time i went in past january because i was not prepared then...moved to TDM after that and i really loved this station..at first my thoughts were 'need to do a lot of calculations and recommendations should be a boring station' ...but instead i end up having a good leader who teached me alot and i felt how important role pharmacists played in this station...at least people in the ward was listening to our suggestions..and actually making the changes...
• Then i went to clinical ward station..it was said that if ward was your last station it would be easier because you would have learned a lot from the past stations to handle what is thrown at you...i find it true but still there bound to be problems from time to time..my leader then was Teoh who guide me through well and i realised how hard it was to intervene with doctors...
• Completing all these stations was a good training process but what made it better was people i met along the way who made me tough , who made me laugh and who made me better...Margaret,Melissa, Tay, Hooi Ying, Lim Hui, Tracy, Vanessa, Irma Wati, Farah, Ainal, Pei Chin, Cheau Chen, Ling Nee, Yen, Yuen Kwan, Ying Erl, Boon Kiong, Kian Boon, Maria, Hidayah, Sabariah, Siti, Asmah, See Leau, Li Hun and Wooi Kyun

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