No Probs, well where do I start. 1st day I was highly enthusiastic about finally working as a pre-reg, thinking finally I can put some knowledge into use. I had previously worked in a pharmacy prior to this on Saturdays but nothing prepared me for this!! The 1st day was really busy doing I think on average between 500 items, prob was we were short staffed, so most of the day I was just stuck in the dispensary doing labels, but at the time I thought no matter things will improve. But oh no things got worse, the second week both the main pharmacist and the dispensing technician were off on holiday so it was just me and a locum pharmacist, literally the blind leading the blind, we were rushing about like headless chickens, since neither of us knew where most of the things were kept, or who orded what, biggest headache was delivery days. The queues as you can imagine were right outside to the door!! I’ve never had headaches but that week I constantly had one everynight.
Plus point though I suppose is that I quickly learnt where everything was. And I learnt the value of having a good dispensing technician who practically manages the smooth running of the dispensary. After that week, things went back to normal and the rest of my placement was spent like this: Sign off delivery, put the goods on the shelves (used to take at least an hour or so, my pet hate!), do labels, get medicine boxes out, do md boxes, collect repeat scripts, do delivery days preparation, do nursing homes script, count scripts. Highlight of day would be: problem with script, OTC advice from customers, fighting between the otc staff, irate customer, unusual requests or script. My only consolation through out this was that im only here for 6 months but then it dawned on me, ill be stuck with this after I graduate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
