Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

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Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. The ESLR that I have excelled in most for my senior project would be Effective Learner.

2. To excel in this ESLR as a senior, you have to take responsibility for your own learning. I have excelled in this ESLR because of taking a college class that is extremely demanding of time and requires a lot of brain power. I took this college class not only to just fill out my independent component hours but to really educate myself about something that is a main aspect of my senior topic. By taking this class, I am also able to educate myself about lifestyle and diet choices that can affect my health. Therefore, I am taking responsibility of my own learning.  

3. Here is a link to a PDF that was a part of our latest assignment. We had to track our diet and input into this diet analysis program where it would analyze what vitamins or certain aspects of our diet we were missing compared to what we should be having. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0TrsAi92Qd1Y2FHaGoxclNMdW8/edit

Blog 18: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. How can a clinical pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?

2. My third answer is the patient being the pharmacist through follow up care.

3. In about a week or a month, a follow up care is necessary to really ensure that the patient's understanding and health. Each follow up care is different and customized to the patient depending on their disease state and drug regimen. The whole point of the follow up care is to review the first consultation but having the patient being the clinical pharmacist. They can do this by explaining what the drug regimen is to you. This can prove further understanding of the drug regimen and to make sure the patient isn't missing anything.

4. The source that helped me was talking to Robert Ngo. He is a clinical pharmacist. From him, I then did further research on the importance of follow up care. One article that showed how important follow up care was an article called, "Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative Change Package." It talked about the goals of clinical pharmacy and what can be improved. Follow up care was under those categories.

5. I plan to do more research on follow up care so that I'll be able to talk more about how important follow up care can be to a patient and how it can contribute to having a quality patient consultation.

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. My essential question is, "How can a clinical pharmacist best provide quality patient consultations?"

2. My second answer to my essential question is adherence rather than compliance. 

3. This means that the patient must be fully aware of the disease state and drug regimen. They not only have to be fully aware but be motivated and encouraged by the clinical pharmacist to follow through.  According to my third interview, who is both a clinical pharmacist and a retail pharmacist, most, if not all the patients he consults knows nothing about the disease state and drug regimen. By telling the patient of the disease state they are in, they will not only know why they have to take the drug regimen but what is happening to them.  As a clinical pharmacist, it is their job to let the patient know how serious their disease is and what could possibly happen if they don't comply with the drug regimen. According to ACCP, in a paper published called "Clinical Pharmacist Competencies,"  a clinical pharmacist needs to be able to educate patients so that they can improve the patient's outcomes.  Therefore, it's extremely important to have the patient understand the disease and drug regimen to optimize the patient's outcomes just from a quality consultation. 

4. My most important source that helped me prove this answer was my 3rd interview and a paper published by the ACCP.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by studying more about what a clinical pharmacist does and cases of clinical pharmacists actually consulting the patient. I also plan to talk to the person I interviewed for my 3rd interview and try to work out a time where I could possibly observe a consultation.

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 
          I am currently trying to get into a nutrition class for my independent component as well as trying to get into a laboratory to observe biology students.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.
          A recent piece of research that has guided me towards what to do next for my independent component is an Op-Ed called, "Out of Control Compounding of Drugs." The article is about the recent outbreak of the steroid being contaminated by a fungus. Because of this, people are now skeptical of compounding pharmacies and new FDA standards for medicine. This has geared me to not only know what a pharmacist does but how important the current issues in pharmacy are. This article also pertains to my science fair project. Because of this research I will start looking up current events in the pharmacy world because the medicine and new restrictions are always coming out.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 
          The evidence of new research that I have found are new issues such as the meningitis outbreak, what FDA inspections regulate, and more about compounding drugs.

Working EQ and Possible Answers

1. My working EQ that I used during my presentation was "How can a pharmacist best help a patient?"

2. I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

3. My possible answers to my current working EQ is through giving consultations, giving preventative advice, going through the prescription to check for discrepancies as well as call insurance companies. I believe these are my answers because I have found these basic duties to be throughout all my research. 

Pharmacy

a. What is your topic and why? 

My topic is pharmacy. I chose this because it's something I'm interested in investing my future career in. Before I take the huge task of being in medical school for four years, I want to be sure that pharmacy is really what I want to do and study.

b.  What do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic? (Relating to ESLRs)

-iPoly Citizen: 

I plan to contribute more to the community in finding multiple connections with different pharmacists.  This relates to me improving as a iPoly citizen because it allows me to take responsibilities for myself and for my actions. By being able to build more connections, I will be able to learn  more about current issues and history regarding the field of pharmacy and an even more broader field, medical. Learning more about these things will allow me to develop an awareness and appreciation of how the field itself makes an impact.

-Effective Communicator:

This year, I plan to be able to observe and apply all the communicating and teamwork skills that a pharmacist has. As a pharmacist, they work with tons of people from patients with consultants to techs with communicating about prescriptions. This will make me more effective as a communicator because being in a pharmacy can be a stressful environment dealing with more crucial things such as giving the right prescription and other things like that. Observing how they deal with the certain situations can allow me to learn and apply them to any stressful situation and in the future career. By applying this, it will allow me to be a better contributor, collaborator and work better with people and in turn, make me a more effective communicator.

-Effective Learner:

This year, I plan to learn basic medical knowledge and to apply this to medical situations that come up. For example, if someone has sprained their leg or has the cold, be able to know what to do. (Seeing Brandon Zelaya know so much information about specific medicines in his senior presentation just amazed me.) This will make an effective learner  to me improving as a iPoly citizen because knowing basic knowledge can help me become a better problem solver with a topic I am not really familiar with. Having this knowledge also opens up to my mind to learning even more knowledge and being able to really help people out.

-Effective User of Technology:

I plan to improve my researching skills with not only researching my topic but also other things that I need research for in the future. This will make me more effective as a user of technology because I will be able to find ways to research more effectively and be able to integrate it into becoming a more effective learner.