So this week has been light as it the week before Summer School Program starts at work.
So glad it worked out, because I finally had time to work on my Pharmacy Intern application.
Take a look! All together, the intern questions and an updated resume took about 3 hours. Time well-spent, what do you think? Any comments or suggestions before final submission?
Until the next Rx
Nicole
College Activities/Honors/Achievements
• UCI's Share Tutorial Program: coordinated with fellow club members and students at low-income high school Saddleback High School, collaborated with school teacher’s to distinguish student’s areas of focus
• Community Care Health Center: Grand opening El Modena Women’s Health Center and Clinica Medica De Ella, Teen Clinic Outreach Volunteer, Collaborated with Dr. Tomlinson on increasing foot traffic and community awareness through neighboring high schools
• Development and Marketing Volunteer: coordinating grant paperwork and media publications for the center at Huntington Beach Community Clinic
• Sacred Heart of Jesus Retreat Center After School Program: Arts and Crafts coordinator
• Hobbies and Interests: Family, Fitness, IWFL,Buddhism, Rockclimbing, Entrepreneurship, Blogging
What are your pharmacy career goals?
I foresee myself organizing clinical trials and communicating within a Pharmaceutical company’s divisions. I would also serve in a community relations capacity to assure new and current drug adherence and improve therapeutic outcomes. In the community setting, my position can help improve the quality of life. As a pharmacist, I can aid in affecting local and global change and work towards a positive future. My interest in Pharmacy is not strictly limited to the immediate and long-term effects on a patients’ health. Instead, the statement “think globally, act locally,” highlights my passion for Pharmacy extends to Pharmaceutical Outcomes as well as Research and Policy. My future career aspirations include graduating with a dual degree PharmD/MBA or MS in Research and Policy.
What do you hope to experience and or gain from this internship?
This internship would provide valuable experience in private health care to and to prepare me for a career in the Managed Health Care specialty. In the end, I hope that this intern experience can help me provide a strong background to step into a pharmacy advocate role and serve the community's healthcare needs. This internship experience combined with (insert school name) Pharm.D. program would only enhance my perspective in Pharmaceutical Industry and future contribution to the policies that currently exist. I believe that the altruism, think globally, act locally will allow me to collaborate with other pharmacists and medical professionals to better our health community. This internship will serve as exposure for me to gain valuable clinical experience to create a pharmacy that provides quality care for the members and families and contribute to the well-being of communities.
What is the job of an intern, and why are you a good candidate?
An intern’s job is to work with and report to the pharmacist and staff in order to facilitate their duties in helping patients and fulfilling the mission of the Kaiser health care organization for members and families. Under direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist dispenses and distributes pharmacy products. As an intern I would be consulting with Kaiser patients and medical personnel about medication therapy and product identification. While upholding Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures, I would be considering cognitive, physical, emotional & chronological maturation process in the delivery of services to patients, interviewing patients and assessing the patient's needs & provides pharmaceutical care needed in accordance w/ department policy. This intern position requires that I am evaluating and resolving medication therapy problems and discuss with medical personnel pharmaceutical care and treatment of patients.
Growing up I was a Kaiser member and I realize the utmost quality of care that Kaiser health professionals and staff provide for their members. My first-hand experience with their professional has shown me how to act in an empathetic and consistent way. Their professionalism and my own experience has enabled me to deal with problem solving situations. When caring for a person it is important to be sympathetic and supportive and not to lose one’s patience. Indeed, when working in a hospital, pharmacists can show compassion and respect in addition to their pharmacological competency. This same compassion, respect and competency are traits I wish to learn from and emulate. Kaiser's environment focuses on patient-centered care and my experiences have prepared me to pool resources and work efficiently especially when dealing with the dynamics of health care and specific patients.
As a Kaiser intern, I would be able to communicate effectively with members and staff. I am capable of shaping my words and my message for not only to my Kaiser preceptors about my assigned tasks, but also Kaiser members and families about their prescriptions. Most importantly, as a professional, I act in a manner that is not only best for all but also contributes to a positive and harmonious health care environment. I am a candidate best suited to this intern position because I can be professional as I can cope with the challenges and conflicts inherent in professional health care setting.
How will your academic and extracurricular activities contribute to your success as an intern?
I feel that the culture and diversity here has imprinted an appreciation of new cultures and traditions that my preceptors, fellow interns and other staff members bring to the table. My educational foundation at UC Irvine has brought me in close contact with research-based professors in the field of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. An extraordinary caring yet adventurous attitude to help people has excited me and made the pharmacy profession my role model. The changing global environment, increased life expectancy, and ever-increasing population are offering unmet challenges. These challenges offer an opportunity to use my abilities to find new and innovative solutions. Over the years I have developed myself in countless ways in terms of a hardworking, persistent and focused personality. My UC Irvine education and Orange County community health experience has prepared me to engage with the faculty and front-line clinicians to be in service within the Kaiser organization. With this, I believe the Kaiser's program can help me face these current health care challenges.
With my diverse perspective and experiences, I have a strong feeling that I will able to finish the Kaiser organization Pharm.D. program as a professional who will advance patient care and facilitate the discovery, understanding and cost-effective use of medicines for the community and society.
In order to prepare myself I have immersed myself in multi-cultural setting to help me develop the skills necessary to interact with Kaiser and community members and other healthcare professionals. From those under-served within my health community to my students and parents of different ethnic backgrounds, these various settings have allowed me to interact with those from diverse backgrounds.
More recently, I have recently been able to return to school to fulfill pharmacy requirements. At that time I earned an A's in all three courses: Statistics, Chemistry and Calculus all while working full-time and managing over private clientele of students. I believe this work ethic and time management skills can carry over into my Pharmacy intern experience, because I am fully capable of managing the responsibilities as a Kaiser intern while completing my Pharmacy education.
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