{"id":10684,"date":"2015-04-22T08:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:01:07","slug":"molly-landis-pharmacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/molly-landis-pharmacists\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Landis: Pharmacists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_4660.JPG\"<\/a>Molly Landis is a family friend of mine. She wrote this report and some of her information came from an interview with me and our pharmacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone knows that a pharmacist fills prescriptions of medication and provides them<\/span><\/span>\u00a0for their customers, but their<\/span><\/span>\u00a0job can get much more complex than this.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>One can be a community pharmacist or a healthcare pharmacist. A community pharmacist typically advises<\/span><\/span>\u00a0their<\/span><\/span>\u00a0customers on dosage of drugs<\/span><\/span>, the side effects, and even\u00a0<\/span><\/span>distributes over-the\u2013<\/span><\/span>counter medication<\/span><\/span>. In addition to this<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0some pharmacies choose to do compounding which is the combining of two different meds. A healthcare pharmacist would usually work in a hospital directing the staff concerning different medication and guiding patients before they leave the hospital. If someone chooses to become a pharmacist they can also choose a more specialized field such as focusing mainly on cancer patients or actually\u00a0<\/span><\/span>producing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>new drugs. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The working conditions vary depending on where they work<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0but several pharmacist<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0spend the majority of their day on their feet and work around forty hours a week. Initially a pharmacist spent a lot of time interacting with customers but now<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0due to insurance<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0more time is spent dealing with insurance companies and technicalities in paper work. They also have to deal with irate customers who are mad at their insurance company.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>After two tears of science related studies in college one can apply to pharmacy school. They then must get a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Pharm.D<\/span><\/span>. Degree which\u00a0<\/span><\/span>takes four years.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>In the US all pharmacist must have a license. They obtain this by having a Pharm\u00a0<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>D<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0degree and passing the NAPLEX (North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam<\/span><\/span>). Also the US requires potential pharmacist<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to pass a test on pharmacy law.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The top\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ten Pharmacy schools in the US are the<\/span><\/span>se\u00a0<\/span><\/span>universities<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Ohio State, Purdue, Arizona, San Francisco, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina and Southern Califo<\/span><\/span>rnia. G<\/span><\/span>r<\/span><\/span>eat pharmacy schools nearby are<\/span><\/span>University<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of Georgia<\/span><\/span>, University of South Carolina,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and College of Charleston<\/span><\/span>. In<\/span><\/span>\u00a0200<\/span><\/span>8 there were 269,900<\/span><\/span>\u00a0pharmacists employed<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They can acquire a job anywhere in the US, and in many parts of the world. In some other countries they actually have to be extra qualified because they do a greater amount of over-the-counter sales and have to advise their customers more.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The job outlook for a pharmacist is supposed to be excellent. One big component of this is because of the demand for medication. New drugs are constantly being developed, individuals are rapidly taking more, and insurance is frequently covering cost.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition medication is becoming more and more complicated so there is need for pharmacists to guide their customers so that dangerous complications don\u2019t take place. The average earnings of a pharmacist are roughly from around 93,000 dollars to<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>122, 000. However, this changes depending on whether they are independent or not. Also, a relief pharmacist makes about sixty dollars an hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pharmacy is ninety-five percent math and chemistry so these<\/span><\/span>\u00a0courses<\/span><\/span>\u00a0are absolutely necessary to take and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>excel<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>high school<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Some other helpful courses would be biology, physics, and various math classes.<\/span><\/span>Pharmacy can be hard and frustrating at times but it is also rewarding and can be used to help others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Molly Landis is a family friend of mine. She wrote this report and some of her information came from an interview with me and our pharmacy. Everyone knows that a pharmacist fills prescriptions of medication and provides them\u00a0for their customers, but their\u00a0job can get much more complex than this.\u00a0One can be a community pharmacist or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2Mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10691,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}