it's time to say goodbye to Apo brands~ no more pill counting, yeah~
and the daunting task of fitting ten pills into one pocket of a blister pack~~ takes skills and space orientation eh?
and lastly to my personal spatula and plate which my pharmer lent me for those 2 wks. makes counting so much easier :)
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had a break during the weekends and found out that my fabulous uncle managed to introduce me for work in another pharmacy :)
Next stop: another pharmacy called NE pharmacy (initialled) Just as I was thinking that canadian pharmacies are slow and relaxing, that place offered a totally new perspective altogether.
First day: sat at the patient counselling desk and ate my lunch and at the same time snapped a pic of the little amount of OTCs outside. That's becoz this pharmacy serves mostly dispensing meds and nursing homes. As you can see the rows of white boxes are Rx filed on a weekly basis.
The whole pharmacy is actually.. sorry to say. in a messy state. The place was small and the orders that came in every morning fill up the empty space in the middle. At the same time, there are like more than 6 pple working at the pharmacy and it's alot of brushing past, giving way and saying excuse me. haha reminds me of busy parkway guardian. But that place was much more interesting than parkway :)
3 tall shelves of meds. And once again I have to orientate myself to the placements of meds at the pharmacy. Those brand names wasn't trying to help at all. grrr...
The pharmers and PTs there were uber-friendly and they introduced themselves as soon as they noticed my existence. Then I was brought up to the second floor where they had a secret room to do blister packing for nursing homes. There was actually an automated machine that does the counting and drops the meds into plastic pockets and then sealed plus labeled. It was totally cool to see it at the retail pharmacy becoz the machine must be very expensive and most retail pharamacies don't have to get such a machine unless if they are handling huge amounts of patients everytime. So I could tell that the pharmacy is really providing meds for a huge amount of pple, especially at the nursing homes.
My first job for the day was to label the blister packs with the times of the day and then place them to the patient's trays. The shelves were practically filled to the brim with those blister packs and more was coming from upstairs. And the first PT whom I made friends with does manual blister packing the whole day, just in case if there are changes to the meds.
Still pretty shy even though many of the PTs tried talking to me. At the same time, I was trying my best to drop the Singlish accent and fake a canadian one. haha fortunately they could understand me. :)
