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Posts Monday, October 31, 2005 Hello Everyone,I am back! Enjoyed reading all your blogs. Dun worry Tini.. Like i said, the girl will be fine. But I am glad that this incident has woken u up.. hehe.. at least you didn't give 3 tablets of dormicum to the girl.. hehe (go find out what that is.. if you forgot already.. ) Glad that i was able to make you feel better tat day.. And yes.. Christina.. life's a bitch sometimes.. Trust me, there will be bitches and f***ing A**h***s everywhere. Even if you dun work in this place, somewhere else, things will be the same. There is no perfect place in the world.. just make the best of what you have lor.. Selina, glad that this attachment makes you want to pursue your dreams even more.. I really hope you can enter the Pharmacy school in NUS... Don' worry.. we on our end will try to make our PCT track even more recognised.. Yup.. like i said.. I'm back.. can call me if you have problems.. take care boys and girls.. see ya when i see ya.. HB Last blogged at 1:08 PM Saturday, October 29, 2005 Hey had a lunch outing with my bosses recently. here is the pic Last blogged at 6:27 PM Friday, October 28, 2005 Back to work!!!Kinda nothing to do so decided to blog... After taking 2 and a half day of MC I'm finally back to work! It's no fun staying at home feeling weak with nothing to do after all. Caught the flu bug since tuesday and get off since then. Later went to the doctor who suspect i might have dengue... (-_-") After all, I have fever, flu and rashes plus I live near Yishun... But thank God i've got no mosquito bites... It's no good being "ostracize" in the clinic while waiting for the doctor... got to mask up myself which reminds me of SARS period. hai~!... Really thankful for mommy who took care of me even though i was kinda wilful while i was sick (haha... do i still have guan(1) huan(2) on my head?)... anyway I'm back to work le... (^-^)... pass up my MC and log book to moi supervisor! Today got a new trial starting and went for the start-up meeting... Thankfully it's less than an hour.. wahaha... if not i'm bound to fall asleep again... \-_-/.... After the start-up meeting went to the lab to wait for more work to do.. but then sth crops up and no work to do... went to the CRT office to play a fool... asking for more work to do... end up playing dry ice turning lab into fairy la la land... (not good for my FYP report i suppose...) Imagine... Lecturer: What have u been doing during ur stay in the lab? Me: Playing dry ice?!?!... Alright I'll be serious next week... hee... only have to come for 3 days... As for now.. it's weekend on the way... woohoo... Enjoy urself during this weekend MB 0304! LL Last blogged at 1:26 PM Monday, October 24, 2005 yoz....how's everyone so far? no hiccups i presume...? :phmm...been quite bz wif cashiering,merchandising,receivng N pricing goods as well as attending to customers...the customers at rivervale plaza were pretty friendly... i enjoyed saying "hi" to little children that came in with their parents...i even get to carry some infants and were surprised that they didnt cry...heez...a pharmacist(not my project sup. as she's on leave last week) told me tat newer areas like sengkang will have more children lorh...the sale of infant stuffs as well as pregnancy test kits were good le.....in older places, walking sticks and other elderly stuffs will haf more sale ba... oei...wherever you might be attached to...jiayou orh... with regards, tiNi :) Last blogged at 11:10 AM well...just read through the posts...to all who's suffering...hang in there k...it'll be over in a blink of an eye...(wishing... :p) aniwae..i suppose there will be some degree of bitching at diff. places ba...hmm...the biggest hiccup that i once had and were actually quite paiseh to share...i gave a sweet gal 3 multi-vitamins while she could onli take 1(the bottle say so) ... as it was the 1st time i gave vit. to kids..i was terrified as the gal + her mum left the pharmacy liaox... worse, on the bottle says " overdose of iron containing products could cause fatal poisoning" geez...i practically gone cold with fear and 1st thought was to rush out of the pharmacy to search for them...then...my pharmacist walked in(she comes in at 1030am while i start work at 830am) ... i told her and instead of letting me know it was alright, she asked me to look up iron poisoning in the martindale book! i was worried-sick and really frightened...it so happen that i read 27mg/kg weight for iron poisoning...i was too troubled to find out how many mg is 3 multi-vit. and could only think of the fact that i dunno how much the gal weigh...came to tink of it...it was quite funny coz i called and sms any frenz who has 4-5yr old nieces or nephews that i know of to check...i was frantic with fear that something might happen to the gal...aniwae, thank God that the gal N her mum passed by the pharmacy again and i spotted the gal and rushed to let the mum know....the mum was like "never mind (x3) its ok wan" then went off....which caused me to worry till i knock off as the mum didnt really seems to bother like that...after work...i got ms ang's hp no. from cindy(bcoz cant get to ms ang via sch no.) and were relieved abit when told the gal should be fine....nxt day...i found out that 3 multi-vit. contains 18mgx3(54mg)..the gal surely is more than 2-3kg? ya...more relieved but not fully....the gal's wellbeing was still on the back of my mind until abt 1 week later....the gal + her mum walked in the pharmacy! i was like "thank goodness she's fine".....really thank God........... hmmm...really learnt that must confirm dosage b4 giving anything... this incident struck me..that just how little i know abt things N i could haf caused someone's death by accident if i werent careful enuff...i became more alert on wat i give from now on....hmm...yup tats it... tiNi ( woken-up from slumber)* Last blogged at 4:50 AM Sunday, October 23, 2005 I get to dispense!Finally after 3 weeks of working in NUH, im finally able to dispense, with supervision of course. It took me about 3 days to observe how the pharmacists dispense before they let me try it. It was really fun but stressful at the same time. Sharon told me that my hands were kinda trembling when im dispensing. And the pharmacists told me that my face was really red.. Haha i guess is because im really very anxious during the dispensing. However things went rather smoothly. Least the patients did not give me any troubles. After the dispension session, my ambition to be a pharmacist is even stronger. I wanna get that degree !! The pharmacists there are really helpful. During the observation for 4 days, they taught me alot of new drugs with their indications etc. They are willing to share any information with me. At least this is what i wanted during the attachment. Even if the pay was really puny, if i can learn, i don't mind at all. Last blogged at 9:29 PM Hi all. Firstly, to all those who are having a bad time during attachment, pls hang on yea. Recently i have been very very alone at work. Joyce and Clarence always have to go overseas to settle stuff regarding the sites such as monitoring, site initation and training. So i am usually the only one from the medical department. But nonetheless, i spend my time religously reading up all the lecture notes in the office. FDA ones, not those from nyp hehe. Quite interesting i may add. However i felt a sense of lacking. Hence i took the initiative. Clarence was driving me home on friday, and i took this opportunity to talk to him and asked if it was possible to teach me how to monitor sites. And yay! He said it was feasible and that i would have to organise it by contacting certain people. So all i have to say to all of you is that, if there is something u dun like or if there is something you would like, please speak up. No one will turn you down. Every opportunity to learn should be grabbed. Best Regards, Amreet Singh Assistant CRA Last blogged at 2:25 PM Saturday, October 22, 2005 Thanks to all... I'm fine and feeling better now. FINALY, the day have arrived... My training at Women's Retail pharmacy ended aka BLoody place with politics and bit*hes in your way! I'm going women's inpatient next week! hope that it will be better place! =) well, there's a dispute at KK hospital regarding whether let us dispense or not... Their point of view is that... What's the objectives of us dispensing? We dun even knoe the FOOD INTERACTIONS... DRUG INTERACTIONS How to dispense.... WHAT THE HELL!!! if they knoe everything like that.... AND if i knoe everything.... I will be WEARING YOUR WHITE COAT and sit there dispensing .... Dun have to wait for your to teach me..... They saying things like "You dun make us sign your dispensing list just bcos you want to reach your quota..." The fact is that.... I DID dispense the drug.... So why dun i deserve the signature? and the item is not OTC item.... (Bit*ch) Another thing, Counselling patient is not about the speed.... it's whether patient understand or not right? Someone tell me this (IT'S A PHARMACIST) "You dun take too long... you will jam up the queeue.." I was like What the f*u* FIrstly, You want me to say things like side effects, food interactions and drug interactions.... NOW, you are LIMITING the duration i counsel a patient.... You want i can RAP.... BUt u think the patient understand or not... THOSE PPL are brainless.... I think The ppl there thinks that we are SIMPLY packers... AND..... fortunately.... god is nice to me... there's maybe 2 nice pharmacists who allow me to dispense... they teach me... go through with me... so now i have 7 out of 30 dispensing =) (P.S. I did that when the devils are not ard...) and some very nice pharmacy technician/assistant who brighten my day there..... IN CONCLUSION, in future....after graduating.... i doubt i will return to KK hospital to work ......PS... I"m feeling better.... i suppose this blog to is let us grumble and complain about things haha... LOVE MISS MIA Last blogged at 10:04 PM Friday, October 21, 2005 gosh...thanks christina...its nutin reallie...i haf to say ppl its reallie tough here in kkwch..n seeing christina 'breakdown', i try not to...cos we haf to keep each other strong seeing we still have abt 8-9 weeks to go...almost each day it takes sum bull strength to get out of bed n ready for werk der... really taxing on us... d amt of werk(packing), stress (high expectations of ppl der) n our project is reallie amounting... obviously der are politics n ppl dat make life very difficult for us ( well have to take dat with a pinch of salt i ges) ...but den so der r some dat makes it more bearble for us der...all thanks to sum pre-regs, pharmacists..(oh ya ms ang ur classmate janice..she's reallie nice n patient) n of cos d tweety bird granny dat makes d daily dose of pantry gossips so fun which became d highlight of our day... i ges all me n christina cld do is try our best...tho we mite trip along d wae im sure both of us cld make it thru..rite chris?survivin 'd kkwch ordeal', faNa n ppl...we miss all of u soo much! Last blogged at 9:52 PM Haha... Good Morning... --- Ana + Zijie @ Alexandra Hosp. @ 8.45am. Last blogged at 8:40 AM Take a look at the time!!! Wow... Our work starts at 9.00am... and we already reached Alexandra Hops. Haha... Just to let all of you to know that we are not late but very very the early... Haha... Too busy to online... Too tired to online too... Wat we do is just work... Then go home and slp... Hmm... But attachment is fine at that moment.. Everyone take care hor... -- ZiJie + Ana To NaNa: "See openly"... After a day of hard work there... Let us be glad that we have a day less to go. Jia you! See you soon. Missing you a lot. Zijie To Eather: Go eat shit la... (i'm really very jeolous).. Haha... Take care!!! Last blogged at 8:25 AM Thursday, October 20, 2005 It's a true confession deep from my heart... i hate attachment.. First week, Honeymoon period.... Second week onwards, It sucks! I hate the politics there...What i saw "A senior pharmacist raised her voice at a pharmacy technician over a phonecall of refunding" And i wonder, is there a need to?...People gossiping, bossing you around.... WHERE IS THE LOVE??? Am i there to work? or to learn? my intention was to learn more things! so? IT's busy everyday.... it's so shorthanded that.... i have no time to see the drugs to know more about them except to read up on the product information leaflet.. i I'm freaking stress... the pharmcist likes to ask me out of chapter questions (YEA... she makes me read BNF... AND she's surprised i dun own a BNF...=[).. if i dunno.... she will start to say i have not been studying... IF i say i did study she will say.... "Oh... u studied SPECIFICALLY what i told you too.... " I was like.... i have no time .... after work it's damn tired and that i only have 2 half hour per week for project... My project is more important to me... But i can't explained my situation but to swallow everything deep inside.. what to do? she's is going to assess me... To them it's all excuses... Have you guys ponder over Why we slog so hard sometimes? what did u learn at the end of the day? simply plain packing? I'm eager to learn if only they could spend more time on us!....Finally i got to dispense some pessaries, vitamins and some pills for osteoporesis...(that's the only thing i'm happy with... but she did not sign for all... cos she thinks vitamins too easy for me... and the rest is like need to brush up more) SIGH -__________- me and farhanna Did Chat with the pre-reg.... she say something.... "It's the attitude towards my work..." Is the attitude towards the job lacking in me? or i'm not easily contented with the packing? i dunno! Ms Yap did encourage me to be more positive.... More positive? Keep looking into the mirror and say " tml will be better...? ... I love KK ? i love my job ??" I dun feel like cheating myself.... Guys... Be in my shoe and think about it... what exactly can i do to actually feel happier there.. And .... i really gotta thanks Farhanna for being there encouraging me and listen to my grumble abt the work!... (Girl... You should know which incident... That Rina thingy...I seriously nearly go crazy that day! =X)TRUE CONFESSIONS FROM: MISS MIA Last blogged at 11:20 PM Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Watching dispensing in actionToday was the first day that im officially attached to a pharmacist to see how they dispense. Initially when i knew i was attached to this particular pharmacist, i was kinda worried. She doesnt really talk to us during the first 2 weeks of our attachment and i felt that she can be cold sometimes. But instead today, i think i get to know her better. She was actually kind and sharing. During the non peak hours, she would go through with me most of the prescriptions and telling me what exactly the patient is suffering from, and what disease the drugs are used for. Basically i learnt quite alot about some drugs which ive not been taught in school before. She also gave me some of the information leaflets to facilitate my learning of those "new" drugs. I think that watching them dispense is a very good way to learn. At least this will sometimes stimulate my thinking and get me flipping through references to clear my doubts. I think its better than just packing drugs day in and out mechanically, without even having the time to stop and think about the prescriptions and drugs' indications etc.. Selina Last blogged at 11:33 PM Monday, October 17, 2005 Hi everyone! So sorry now then post my blog. 2 weeks gone already....got miss me or not? Ya...i admit miss u all...haiz...no one bullshit with me here...all alone in NUH cancer institute...except sometimes during lunch got ling ling, sharon, selina and janson to gossip with. Let me start sharing with u all what things i have done for these past 2 weeks:Week 1 --> Orientation loh...repeat my history times and times...again and again until someone offer me to record down my history to save my saliva. Given a protocol to read and come up with CRF. Have my first part of 1 to 1 lecture (because i am the only one attached to there, so 1 to 1 loh) that last 2 hours! Talking about NUH Cancer Institute history and what I learnt in school. Almost doze off...haha...cos i get to lost concentration easily...but cannot blame me! 2 hours...its a pretty long time loh without any breaks... and i was hungry too at that time, thinking of cup corn and wages. Ya...other than that...get to go "jalan jalan" with the study coordinators to the cancer center...see subject loh...stand beside like road block like that...haha...but not bad lah...at least get to know better about real-life clinical trials.Also sometimes, get to be translator...haha...study coordinator who is a filipino, often bring me "jalan jalan" becuase whenever she has a chinese subject who speaks mandarin only, she will sure bring me go there and translate loh...like ask whether they feel good, got take medicine, any discomfort after chemo that sort of things...ya and also repeat my history to them...hence get to know some subjects and have a chance to show off my powerful mandarin! Thats what i did in the mornings. In the afternoon i will go over to the mursing admin to do a non-drug trial...there i key in data and ...enjoy myself...haha...siter nurses there very good to me...there slack....key in tons of data but once you get use to it then it will be fast...after that you can surf net and also they give me CD player to play music. Ask me to bring food to microwave and eat here also can. Then sometimes bring me "jalan jalan" loh. Share with me what nurses do and also bring me to NUH Quality Talk to take a lot freebies and have buffet there! (Zijie dun jealous hor) Week 2 --> Design CRF and show it to the person in charge of me there, ms ong. Made a lot mistakes i should say. But its okay cos learn quite a lot from there. Ya get to do PK sampling on a new subject. Given 3 chances to do it. 1st chance I gave up cos I not prepared yet...its safer to make sure you understand the procedure then can do right? 2nd chance I poke into the cannula successfully! But blood was difficult to draw. I thought the moment you poke into the cannula...it would be easy to draw the blood. But i was wrong...it was difficult and i was shocked! luckily study coordinator say nvm and helped me along. So this time round consider fail lah cos got pple help. Then the 3rd chance, I managed to draw the blood successfully without help! so happy although is a simple process. And also i get to process the blood myself...in fact is just centrifuge, take out plasma and then put in the freezer correctly then done. Nursing admin there as usual...key in tons of data but fast enough to finish all...thats why now i have the time to blog in front of the sister nurse and play solitaire! haha! heard sister nurse say going to bring me ward one day to do the trial...maybe that will be fun loh... Ok i shall stop here cos its time to knock off soon! Esther Last blogged at 5:45 PM Friday, October 14, 2005 No complains... instead I'm filled with thanksgiving!I'm really thankful that I'm attach to Lilly-NUS where the people are so friendly, with a supervisor who likes to chase us home as early as possible. Not only so, but also purposely give us exercise to do after knowing abt our 'problematic FYP' which we have to hand in. If not, we will have a too smooth journey in Lilly and not able to hand anything for the FYP report... I am also thankful for a nobel lab technician like Victor, who is willing to give us his blood so that we can use it to practice sample processing when subject's blood is not enuff for us to use. Not forgetting about Janson, whom i'm very sorry for wasting his blood cos my phlebotomy technique is so bad... Though at times it can be quite boring yet it is during this time that I make use of it the most. Other than chatting on the web secretly, I also make an effort to do research abt the drug and technique that we need to use for the trial we are involve in and gain better understanding than before... The dull time passes real slow, but after it has passed I know that I have not really wasted my time... Great! [PS: another dull time is during conference and meeting. --> slept a few time and i suppose they saw me thru... (-_-")] Another thing to give thanks is to Ms Yap and Ms Ang... for all the hardwork that u guys put in to train us. Now i'm doing clinical trial and i can relate quite a lot of thing that Ms Yap taught us though can't remember everything. Next to give thanks: Esther, Sharon and Selina! Having lunch with u guys is a great thing at least it is never dull as compared to eating in the pantry with ______... haha... u guys know what I'm trying to say... I love to hear their experience and share with them all the stupid mistakes that I made during the lab session as well... It makes my lunch time the most enjoyable moment of the day! Finally to my attachment "buddy" --> Janson. hor... this guy... yes must give thanks that at least I am not going to a company alone but with a fellow classmate... He's quiet...but thanks to him for answering the question that i do not know how to answer when supervisor ask us, for sharing the 'burden' of calling all the bosses to ask them to give us training and etc... To all MB 0304 --> though we are at our respective company for attachment purpose but i think what ms Yap say is really true --> our relationship with other people is still more important than our work [It is after all people whom we are serving not the work itself, rite?] =P Last blogged at 11:20 PM Thursday, October 13, 2005 First day at counterYa.. serving customers.. At least its something intresting for me becoz i get to see the patients instead of standing behind packing the drugs. However there were some unreasonable patients i met today.. This guy came with a prescription of 7 drugs, but NUH carries only 5. Then he kept on asking how much the price, and whether we can do ordering for the remaining 2 drugs. We told him that he had to go outside like guardian to get it but he was so angry and irritated and kept argueing that how am he going to do w/o his medicines. We told him its alright but just have to go out and get it. And he kept asking and pushing us to be faster when we were trying to check the price for his drugs. We are just doing patient a favour and that we are not obliged to actually help them to check out drugs not available in NUH. He must learn to appreciate instead of being impatient. Another case is that this lady came with a prescription, but she told me that she's gonna come back later becoz she felt hungry and wanna go have her lunch first. So i just process her prescription and told the ppl inside to pack it. However during dispensing her drugs by 1 of the senior pharmacy tech (PT), she was not around to collect it. The PT then placed her drugs aside him at the counter. When that patient returns, she asked me whether her drugs was ready or not in a angry tone becoz she claimed that she waited awhile but her number did not flash on the screen. I searched high and low for her medicines but did not find it. I told her to wait while we find it but she started raising her voice and said something like " You lost my drugs... obviously you dispensed it to a wrong patient!" At that moment i really don't know what to do becoz i trust that the pharmacists will not dispense wrongly. Then someone found her drugs beside the counter where the senior PT was previously at. By right i thought that uncollected drugs are suppose to be placed at a drawer dedicated for it. That's why i cannot find it in the first place. I was kinda pissed becoz i got scolded for nothing as it was not really my fault.. Another patient with similar scenario happened a little while later. But luckily this time, this patient was not angry, but joked around and waited for her drugs to be found. And again.. it was at that senior PT counter again when he put aside during dispensing when the patient was not around -.- Selina Last blogged at 8:36 PM Hello Everyone! Miss having you guys around.. Reading Christina's blog and she mentioned that her pre-reg pharmacist told her "well we haf to start from the bottom..everytin has its beginnin den u will understand n appreciate better"... That's so true.. even when I was a pre-reg, I had to pack drugs for months before I was allowed to dispense. Even as a pharmacist, we are not spared from packing drugs, price-tagging, doing extemporaneous preparations, typing labels etc. Do not think that a degree or a dip makes you a better or more superior human being than your colleagues. As I have always stressed in school, attitude is very important. We all work as a team in the pharmacy. There is no such thing as an inferior job.. I'm really so happy to see all your blogs here and listen to your experiences.. quite fun actually.. can relive my younger days (PS: I'm not that old la... haha).. but i think this blog makes me sound like some old longwinded ah ma.. Ok.. for the next two weeks.. enjoy yourselves.. I will be somewhere in the other part of the world enjoying my hols... hehe HB Last blogged at 10:53 AM Fire in the Lab Going to use chemistry terms here, let's see how much you guys remember. ;) I was washing chromate (VI) oxide crystals off a spatula on Tuesday, using acetone. I was making PCC (A mild oxidising agent), and those crystals are one of the starting materials. And then, the waste flask which I was washing the spatula in burst into flames. For awhile I was staring dumbly at the flames while this thought flashed across my mind, "Fire extinguisher, fire extinguisher, FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!". One of my labmates ran to the next door lab to grab a fire extinguisher. As I watched her run, I was wondering where she was going, because I remembered seeing a fire extinguisher in our lab, ah well, I just watch her. =P She tried to release the plastic catch, but couldn't. I grab a pair of scissors and cut away the plastic catch so that we can release the safety pin. She then tried to press the handle to release the CO2 but couldn't. (This is partly due to her panic and her small size, she is really small in size.) In the end, she aimed, I squeezed the handle. Hehe. Moral of the story? Never wash inorganic chemicals into organic wastes. We deal mainly with organic chemicals, Chromate (VI) oxide is an inorganic chemical. Well, you guys break glasswares, try setting a fire in the lab! Blah! *Sticks out his tongue* People here are nice, they never blamed me for the fire, well, because I did ask one of them whether I should continue washing with acetone or water before the fire. (So not exactly my fault although I did commit the act...) On Monday, I left at 8:45pm! Had to run a long colunm chromatography and wash up. The PhD students in the lab I do my project in have superhuman strength. They arrive earlier than I do (Which is 7+) and they leave much later than I do (Which is most likely 8+ to 10+). I wonder how they survive daily. Going to get NMR training next Monday. Doing project here seems exciting, with all the journals to read and the reactions to run, extraction and column chromatography. All the spectroscopic techniques. I'm actually doing all the stuff we learn in Pharmaceutical and Organic chemistry but never get to do it in NYP. Fun~ Terence Seah. Last blogged at 12:35 AM Wednesday, October 12, 2005 heylu every1..reallie miss u guys now comin to week 2..all dos borin lectures nw meant sumtin.. ok maybe d memory of eatin wedges durin lecture :P... aniwaes...everydae is such a tiring dae being on ur feet almost 7.5 hrs... nonetheless todae was pretty exceptional... well dis few weeks im attached to the children's retail pharmacy dat also serves the outpatient pharmacy... with me there's dis very sweet pre-reg. pharmacist, Pearlyn... she's been at KK for sumtym but yet she is so humble not like urm sum pharmacists... she's willing to help me with ma calculation, extemporaneous preparations n although she's a pre-reg she has to do the packing of drugs...we talk n when i sigh due to its tiredness n asked her why she didnt dispense (believe me kids dis daes get sick n are prescribed tonnes of medi + now sch hols..tsk tsk), she simply sed " well we haf to start from the bottom..everytin has its beginnin den u will understand n appreciate better" i was so blown away n frm den on didnt complain as much...n oh yes i get to dispense first time!! ehehe exhilirating!! tho abit nervous but den he did understand...but ma pharmacist incharge wont record it down as he sed since its in malay he cnt understand n therefore cant mark me n record it... :( wasted.. :PLast blogged at 8:13 PM attachment's tiring but quite fun..heez...regretted not studying my pharmaco well coz its definitely impt if i ever wan to be a pharmacist in the future...*faint* yoz..missed you all...hmmz...do jiayou orh...(^ - ^) ciao ~ tiNi waS herE... :P Last blogged at 6:21 PM Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Yo hi everyone, Jin hereme having lots of fun in Aust. (-_-;;) *eating sandwiches everydae zzz... i wan CQYD noodles sob* hmm.. the project is interesting here... we are trying to find new ways to deliver heparin to the body. Juz to refresh memory... heparin is anti-coagulant... it is administered to the body via injection only. Now what we are doing is trying to deliver heparin to the body using novel approach such as via microcapsules... we envelope heparin inside microcapsules, and took photos of it using microscope. *tht is sooooo interesting, beside the kangaroo & koala bear bear* tht was all done in week 1.. for this week (week 2) we will be doing wif florence tag, and trying to quantify it. heh.. Jin@111005@time 12am (o.O) Last blogged at 9:51 PM Sunday, October 09, 2005 Hi... how are you all?I should thank Miss Yap for posting me to Sengkang UNITY. There i met a very good pharmacist, Miss Peck. She is helpful, friendly, responsible,... and more for me to find out. oh ya she likes chemistry hehe... ya she prepared a time table for me containing what i will learn in this 11 weeks. Miss Li fang (Peck) built a very close relationship with the customers, to her i think they are patients. When the patients come, instead of telling her what they want to buy, they tell her their problems n diseases. Miss Peck will then ask more detail before choosing a suitable medicine for them. I will then standing beside learning her skills. I learned cashiering, tagging price, calculating cost and other merchandising stuffs. I have never been a cashier before, so these look interesting to me. They sound simple, but it took me sometime to learn them. The great thing is Miss Peck teaches me a lot about medicine. She will allow me to explore her pharmacy only drug and POM include viagra. haha... She will ask me questions that stimulate my thinking and link things together. Sometime she can throw me a question that stimulates my nerves for hours. Yesterday I was asked to compare the different types of eyedrops , their uses and to find out what products can be used for contact lenses by looking at their chemicals. diao... then i remembered Ms Ang's notes.. now then realised that patient care is important.. and Zeyi's polarity rules apply everywhere... I also learn different functions of all the supplement products. still have alot more to learn... i enjoy my days there... hmmm... tml morning have to attend their pharmacist training very early 8.30 pm at great world city. probably i can meet some of you there. Best wishes for you all... Me Ling Last blogged at 11:22 PM Saturday, October 08, 2005
Last blogged at 9:37 PM 1st week is over! Tons and tons of work. Very tired already. I wake up every morning trying to find an excuse not to go to work as i am so tired. But by time i enter the office, im raring to go and excited to work another day for SCHERING. This is actually the 1st job i have done that makes me feel fulfilled. I finally have begun to appreciate clinical trials and i must thank miss yap as her teaching was very extensive and covered so many parts of clinical trials and thanks to that i didnt look like some blur cock in the office. :) New things that i have learnt: Checking for ADR using CIOMS. I decided to bring the laptop home for the weekend as i have to prepare an application form which is rather extensive to submit to Gleneagles for participating in our clinical trials. I really hope that this works out as we are really in need of patients for the qouta and i pray this time we get patients. Anyways i have to submit the application form to Gleneagles by Monday and decided not to take any risks by doing it on Monday as both my seniors are away on Site Initiation trips which leaves me alone and if i keep emailing them queries, its going to be very time consuming so being the good little boy that i am, i decided to take it upon my responsibility to complete as much as i can over the weekend so that progress can be made faster. In the real world, the most important phrase is "TIME IS MONEY" and i realised that its very true when you spend so much money a day and if nothing is done, its good money wasted. Best Regards, Amreet Singh Assistant CRA Last blogged at 12:32 AM Wednesday, October 05, 2005 The archive thingy (which amreet wanted it so badly he was begging and all...) something like that la... Problem is when u click on the month it goes back to the main page... so u gotta click back on the 'voice' to view the posts in that month. Free i figure out the html how to link to the voice page la lazy wanna crack my head at the moment wasted 45 mins here already... gotta work tmr chow for now...-janson Last blogged at 10:57 PM First 3 days of work were mostly on packing. Sometimes we did some checking of stock for their expiry dates and recording those that gonna expire in 1 year time. So ya basically its all about packing the correct drugs in a fast and efficient way. I guess this will continue for like at least 1 week until we are used to do it accurately and quickly. Oh ya btw, our pharmacy sees lots of psychiatric patients, followed by gastrointestinal disorders like gastric problems and constipation. Lots of clozapine, bromazepam, fluoxetine, lactulose and omeprazole.. Selina Last blogged at 9:49 PM Tuesday, October 04, 2005 Day 2, very very very mentally exhausting. Both the regional manager and CRA were down with a bug today. Hence, i was given tons of lectures to read. Each over 100 slides long!!! Holy... But thankfully Joyce, CRA, emailed me a document to work on regarding patient recruitment. That was indeed much interesting than reading from a computer.The best part about my office is that in one corner, there is this "lounge" where you can relax with a cappucino and sit on the plush couch and juz stare into the sky where planes land and take off. Below is a meadow of blooming dandelions. Nah just kidding, just untamed grass. But still the colours blue and green were oh so calm. I juz plopped myself down and started reading one of their books on clinical trials. Work culture in a german company is definitely so much more flexible than a singaporean context. I think i caught the bug. Feel so weak now. Hope i can go to work tomorrow. I might be following them to Gleneagles for a meeting! Weee! Best Regards, Amreet Singh Assistant CRA Last blogged at 11:57 PM   woohoo... Guess everyone's having a great time in their respective attachment places. Well as Janson have mentioned, we are attached to Lily-NUS and that's FYP for me... And now let me recount my first day till now... I was told by Ms Yap that our supervisor was quite good looking and make me so excited (wahaha...) so I was really looking forward to the first day where we will be introduced to our supervisor... and well... ermm... He's fine! Really! Too bad attach le... Haha... But that's besides the point... (-_-") I really like my first day at work where we were introduced to the whole staff of the organization and it's really hard to remember all the names in one day but hopefully we'll get it right as time goes by... Like the rest, the staff who took us around are all nice people very friendly, but I'm kinda not quite myself as I am reminded by Ms Yap's words of not to tarnish the school's reputation and blah blah... so have to behave myself and show the best positive attitude to everyone around... (kinda shy too... ice-breaking not as good as Amreet's one hee...) But hopefully by this week we'll get to lunch with other colleagues or so and get to know them even better... Well the best part was that we were told that we actually had a office desk all by ourself... woo... that's a luxury for me cos never had the privilege before... I did attach a picture of my working desk... We also got our access card and it's pretty professional but that our chain looks like erm... ___ _____ but i kinda like it though Oh ya one thing so cool about Lily is that the distance between Lilly sponsor side and the actual site is 2 door away. So the CRA do not have to travel for monitoring and stuff like that... Later during lunch we had it with our supervisor who showed us the cheapest food we can get in NUS and it's really cheap... i spend only $1.80 on my lunch and the vending machine is also heavily subsidised by the company... one can of coke only cost about $0.50. Cheap isn't it? Heard from the supervisor that it used to be free but was misabuse by the staff over there... (T_T) that's why the company have to make the staff pay some at least... Singaporeans... After lunch we had a few SOPs to read and it's pretty dry... (ok, i admit! i did fall asleep while reading but i woke up real fast!) Then we had to attend lectures too... woo... Though some of the stuff we did learn it in school but i think it is really nice of the company to help us revise our work and train us before we start on any projects or lab work... Thank God! Well i think that's all. Will fill in more details as the days go by... Hope you guys are enjoying ur work too! Last blogged at 9:34 PM My first day of work was in Lilly-NUS (together with Lingling), nothing much i would say just touring of the company and being introduced to some staff. Actually not some but many of them! Tried remembering thier names at first but soon there's more and more... and more. Other than that given some SOPs of the company to read on what you should do and what not. The second day was much more interesting. The supervisor brought us to watch an actual clinical trial being carried out in humans. The buzzy atmosphere was an eye-opener. Besides that did some citing of journals, short lectures and reading of an actual ICD and protocol which was handed to us. With all the technical knowledge imparted to us over the last 2 years, thankfully everything or should i say most of the things are still comprehensible... so far so good =D. Well the actual work where we would 'get our hands dirty' (that's what the supervisor said lol) will start on 17 oct... would definately anticipate that. Oh and I learnt something today... since my work ends at 17 30, never eat dinner there or guess what... the bus would be jam packed with NUS students! Ended up reaching home at 20 00 ... 2.5 hours of travelling time -.- guess i have to skip my cca for today =p - janson Last blogged at 8:31 PM First day of work Sharon and I both were posted to NUH's retail pharmacy department. We reached the reporting place today at 8.30am and attended a briefing about the organisatin of NUH's pharmacies. They have lots of main and satallite pharmacies around NUH. The lady incharge of us was Nancy. She was very friendly and made us feel very welcome. After that briefing, we went over to the pharmacy which we are suppose to work for 2 months. Redzwan was the senior pharm tech over that who taught us the ropes today. We learnt about packing drugs from prescriptions. We had to be cautious of many things just alone in packing. Names, strength, formulation etc must be checked thoroughly before picking the drugs for packing. I can tell you its kinda stress becoz if any medication errors occur, you will be giving the seniors there trouble becoz they had to repack again. I've made a few mistakes today, like taking the wrong formulation (the package for eye drops and ointment are really very similar), and like pasting the label in the wrong way or forgeting to check certain things before packing. However Redzwan was not furious but instead correct me in a very friendly and helpful way. I find that after making such mistakes, ive became more vigilant in doing it since i will always remind myself never to repeat it again. I hope things will get better next time, and not causing any troubles there while working. Target for myself this week is to pack drugs in a more efficient and faster way without mistakes. Selina Last blogged at 12:33 AM Monday, October 03, 2005 Well, since Amreet wrote such a descriptive one...I left my home at 6:00am, not knowing how long it would take me to reach Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Read through my Organic Chemistry notes along the North East Line and slept through the East West line all the way till Boon Lay. Took 199 to NTU, with the most vague of all instructions from friends studying in NTU, "Just get down from the bus when you see a lot of people getting down." Along the journey to my supervisor's journey, my initial thoughts about NTU was, "This place is big, pretty and green!". The chill of the morning air greeted my skin wherever I walked, the silence reminds me that the world in NTU is only just waking up. Somehow, I reached my destination, the office of my supervisor. The corridor lining the staff offices had the musty new smell, it looked new as well! He arrived, and talked to me briefly regarding some administrative matters, then he asked one of his students to mentor me along with another lady, a research assistant working in one of the research labs. We took a lift to the basement 2, well, not much of a basement since NTU is set on a hill, just like Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), only much bigger. The lab was well equiped with all the things one would need to do organic chemistry experiments, I was tasked to start small, with the first step of a whole series of reactions, and was given a general orientation of the lab as well as the people there. I left at 5:50pm, it was a slow day, but as I remember and re-learn my techniques, so will the pace of the reactions, and soon, you guys would probably see me staying back beyond my allocated timing. ;) Terence Seah. Last blogged at 11:38 PM Today was My First Day at Retail Pharmacy. The shop is pretty small. I am like a elephant in there. All girls and aunties except the pharmacist is a guy. Pretty retail stuff..Nothing science and clincial...I learnt how to put price tag,use the system to check the price,display abit of stuff and finally, do stock check when the stock arrive...oh gosh...So PM...Fainting...It left me wondering what am i doing in a retail pharmacy. And definitely, pharmacist will never be my profession. In a retail pharmacy, the pharmacist only give the drugs without much consulting because the customers already know what they want. Nothing fascinating. Today, i am asked whether i know the pharmacy law..Oops...I forgot..I need my basic dispensing notes again..Need to read up on patient care too...So many things....Dont know am i be able to go through it ..... 73 days to my Salvation. Regards Jun Hou Last blogged at 10:42 PM Hi guys, today was the first day of work. I left my house with much uncertainty looming in my heart. It was really nervewrecking thinking of what lied ahead. The journey was very long and i even thought i was lost. But thankfully, i saw the Expo halls and knew i was in the right direction. As i approached the bulding where i worked at , The Signature, butterflies were fluttering away. As i went up 7 stories to the office, i could not help but marvel at the gorgeous building i was in. It felt really posh to say the least. I saw the door, which was made entirely out of glass and 3 metres wide the least. No one was in and i wandered abit outside until Clarence Khoo and Kit came my way. Immediately he knew who i was. We exchanged pleasantries and he led in me. I was given a thourough tour of the place. My favourite part if u ask me was the pantry. Expresso machine, Fridge, drink machine, tidbits. Yum yum. I was offered cappucino by Clarence but declined as i wanted water at that moment. I laid down my bag thereafter on my L-shaped desk which was huge. Then, i stepped into Clarence's office and we had a hearty 1 hr long chat about the company, myself and himself. It was really the icebreaker i needed. The company felt so receptive. I felt at home. I was introduced to all the staff whom i must say are extremely friendly. I was later presented with my own personal laptop which also had my personal email in it. I was also given a telephone line but it is not installed yet. Maybe tomorrow. I proceeded to double check all the copies of files that laid around for syncroncy which otherwise meant everything was in order in all files. I did some bit of paperwork as well as reading up some notes in the office which were very informative. I was beginning to like this place. It was cosy. Lunch time came and the managers and I had a hearty lunch. Food was inexpensive thankfully. After lunch, the fun came. I attended two manager meetings which really was an eye opener. The real world laid before me. Just in case anyone is lost, I am working in a Regional HQ for SCHERING. The place i work in does not carry out clinical trials as all the main managers reside in there. It oversees all the clinical trial site over the region. We talked about countries and which was profitable and which werent. Politics was in the air. Inevitable. At 3pm, I proceeded down to SGH with the CRA, Joyce Lim, to gain ethics approval for a protocol for a new upcoming clinical trial. After which i went home. Pretty eventful day it was. Currently i am waiting for the director's meeting which i am scheduled to attend in November. Its going to interesting i say. I guess the objective would be to discuss the quarterly performance but i can't say more as im bound to the confidentialy agreement of SCHERING Asia- Pacific. Amreet Singh, Assistant CRA 3th Oct 2005 Last blogged at 8:52 PM Sunday, October 02, 2005 oooh i forget...dat was by me farhana...teehee... :bLast blogged at 10:40 PM gosh...scary isnt it..toms is finally d dae..whoa! feel a sense of trepidation already...well aniwaes goin to reallie miss d whole of mb0304... n of cos our lovely2 lecturers ms ang n ms yap..our "mummies"... well gd luck u guys!~ Last blogged at 10:33 PM Yeah... gd luck all ya on ya attachments.. gosh.. time really passed so fast.. n not knowing.. we have ended our 2 n half yr semester.. now attachments.. haiz.. surely be missing our class.. the funs we had and all the gd memories of it especially the talentime days.. well, see u guys again after aour attachment date ends, during our presentation.. take care all ya.. By: Ana p.s: oppss.. that dae i post tis, i forgot to type my name.. ahahha... gd luck everbody.. Last blogged at 10:00 PM yo all, today is e last day of the holiday tt we haf...enjoy as much as u can cos tml will be e 1st day of our attachment!! rem to do ur best for our attachment and hope to u all real soon..hope tt we can meet up often even though we are all separated everywhere in S'pore. even if we can't meet up, rem tt this blog is for u tp update on ur attachment..wahaha..all thanks to selina got setting up e blog. Oh yah, we still haf e chatterbox for us to chat there too, thanks to janson too..hehe ttz all...hope tt all of us will haf an enjoyable attachment~! 'simlan Last blogged at 7:25 AM I've added a chat section to the html although the 'chat' word seems abit larger than the 'voice' and 'world'... dun quite know what font size is it lol... anyway hope u guys keep posting any short comments or whatever ^^ - janson Last blogged at 12:00 AM Saturday, October 01, 2005 ooo class blog hehe... excited about the attachment man!!! Dunno wat's gonna happen but whatever the outcome is we must do our best go mb0304!- janson Last blogged at 11:10 PM Jia You Jia You Jia You!!! ---- By Zi Jie Last blogged at 10:16 PM Yeah... gd luck all ya on ya attachments.. gosh.. time really passed so fast.. n not knowing.. we have ended our 2 n half yr semester.. now attachments.. haiz.. surely be missing our class.. the funs we had and all the gd memories of it especially the talentime days.. well, see u guys again after aour attachment date ends, during our presentation.. take care all ya.. Last blogged at 8:55 PM Class list AmreetJanson Jun Hao Ling Ling Selina Sim Lan Terence Tini PCT0304 MSN Group Credits Layout: AngelaPicture: AdvancedAnime Insert your tagboard here =) You can get one from Cbox, ShoutMix,
SayBox, MyFlashBox or get a mini-chatroom from Chatango.
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