Pharmacy School Instructors
Started by Pinser555
Probably because it's their job? I mean, you get like 1500 hours of practice out in the real world. The way the real world operates is dynamic and ever-changing, but the pharmacology of drugs is pretty much set in stone.
I think he's talking about the pharmacy practice instructors rather than the pharmacology/science instructors. I had a pharmacy practice professor take off 15 points off of my pharmacy label because I forgot to write down the pharmacy address on the label. 🙄
Who the **** still handwrites pharmacy labels?
Also, the same professor took off 25 points because I forgot "by mouth" on the instructions. This was the prescription:
Proventil HFA
#1 Inhaler
2 puffs q6h prn sob
I wrote it as "Inhale 2 puffs every 6 hours as needed for shortness of breath." I know there are alot of ******* patients out there, but I'm pretty sure that the inhaler won't fit into any FACIAL crevice other than the mouth. And yes, I've seen the House MD episode where one of his typical clinic patients uses the inhaler as if it was a perfume dispenser.
In that case, it's far better to have a sound foundation and start cutting corners later than to never learn the "proper" way. Are you ever going to give someone a 20-minute consultation on migraine headache and acetaminophen use? Probably not. But is it a bad thing to learn? No. You can take bits out of it and apply them to different situations. Better to learn things more thoroughly and idealistically than the opposite.
That's just what I was thinking, when Cerner goes down, I grab a handful of labels and a pen.
If you aren't going to learn the "proper" way of doing things while you are in school, when are you going to learn it?
