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Monday, February 25, 2008
I forgot to blogg a few weeks ago and introduce the new fourth year student that is here. Erica is on her third week in Leader. She is working on a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) project, doing med reviews at the clinic and nursing home, and attending rounds at the nursing home and hospital.
Even though my proposal is at a standstill, my primary care and clinical work is progressing steadily. After the team meeting last month I started doing rounds at the hospital. Each afternoon Erica and I spent 30 to 60 minutes reviewing the charts of in-patients. The hospital really isn't very busy and often there are no drug related problems for us to handle. Last week we did resolve a drug related problem for a patient being started on IV antibiotics. The empiric dose was for the drug to be scheduled three times daily; however, this dose was too high based on the patient's kidney function so we recommended a twice daily dosing schedule. Without our intervention this error would not have been discovered and the result would have been detrimental to the patient.
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Friday, February 1, 2008
My good news was short lived :( The Primary Health Care team meeting was yesterday and it went well; all of the team members are glad to have a pharmacist on board and on site. Today, though, I spoke with the PHC director from Swift Current and she told me that perhaps by the end of April the health region will be ready to post a part-time pharmacist position. They are not interested in a contract with Stueck Pharmacy and the position will only be for work at the clinic (everything that I am doing at the nursing home and will soon be doing at the hospital will be excluded). This news has let us down, after all the work that I have done and the support that Gord has given me. If by chance I am offered the position then I would be doing less than half of what I am doing now. I think that the rest of the team will be disappointed to learn that my job will be so constrained, especially since they have come to expect so much more from me. I don't know if Gordon & Stueck Pharmacy will be willing to continue subsidizing my clinical work or not.
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