Pharmacists in May....

[UTCPharm]

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To those of you will be graduating this year, I'm curious as to how prepared you feel to be a pharmacist. I'm finishing my undergraduate degree this semester, and I can't imagine this sort of education being enough for any specific job. I know that pharm school is totally different though, so I'm wondering if your education has gotten you to a point to where you are completely confident to go out there and do it on your own.

Basically, do you feel like you totally know what you're doing and you are about to explode if they don't release you and let you do your job?

or

Do you feel timid about being the last line of defense and making all your own decisions?

 

[ultracet]

i honestly know what i know and know what i dont

i am confident in my ability to make clinical judgements off of my knowledge or the ability to look up information if need be.

i will of course double-check myself for a while just to be sure.

 

[sdn1977]

I've been out of school awhile, but I clearly remember the day i was fully responsible as a pharmacist - it was not the day of graduation since I hadn't taken the board exam yet. The day I found out I had passed, my boss, after many congratulations, told me I would be the day pharmacist since he was going to reassign the previously scheduled person who had been my supervising pharmacist while I worked as an intern and proceeded to give me my set of keys & combinations. I was elated & completely confident until I unlocked the pharmacy the next morning. I walked in with my techs & thought "holy @#$* - what have I done????"

It took me a few weeks to find my rhythm & I spent many sleepless nights recalculating neonatal TPN solutions in my head, but the previous poster is right - you always have resources & another pharmacist is only a phone call away. The best thing I ever learned was to acknowledge that I won't know it all.