I'm back in Cardiff for the weekend, finally I got internet to get online after weeksss! I've finished the placement with Boots last friday, on the 8th of Aug, and I started hospital placement on the 11th of Aug. It was a rushing and tiring weekend for me last week, as I came back from Oxford on Saturday, carrying all the stuffs with me all the way from Oxford to Cardiff, then on Sunday I was busy moving all my stuffs from previous house to the new house where I will be staying for my final year, and at 6pm we rushed to train station to catch the train to Llanelli, the place where I am currently doing my hospital placement.
On the very last day of my placement with Boots, one of my colleagues, a senior dispenser, brought out a bouquet of flower and a gift bag for me, telling me that, "We did some collection among the staffs and we bought you flower and chocolates as a gift...." my tears were almost dropped out, I was really touched when I see the bouquet of flower, to be honest this is the first bouquet of flower I ever received from friends. Darling was teasing me by saying that I had no any feeling when he gave me roses but I can easily get touched by someone else flowers! But i was in a real shock when I see the gifts from them, and they gave me a box of chocolate and 2 box of cosmetic gift sets. And also, I will never forget the warm tight hugs from my tutor before I left the store, and our tears almost drop at the moment but we managed to control it!
In the hospital, I admit I'd learnt quite alot of clinical stuffs that I will never remember from studies, but most of the time I am so bored, we are not allow to do any work in the hospital other than OBSERVING!! I love ward rounding, the most enjoyable moment in the hospital, can get a chance to look at all difference type of patients, get to learn all the clinical knowledge, get to watch all difference field of professionals walking around (too bad most of the doctors are old men, haven't seen a good looking young handsome men yet!) but it could be quite sad seeing patients in pain or suffering from a disease. I've learnt to appreciate with all I have now and I know how lucky I am now after seeing and comparing myself with those patients.
In this whole week, I spent most of my morning session doing ward rounding, been to different wards every morning, observed on how pharmacy technician take patient's drug history, what pharmacist do in ward, how to help to improve patient's quality of life, check on the drug chart to find is there any interaction between drugs and also suggest any further recommendation on drugs. I really enjoy them. But in the afternoon after lunch break, it is really killing me, as I will have nothing to do then. I have been scheduled to stay in the dispensary every afternoon but the hospital is so quiet that we hardly get busy in the dispensary, so I spent most of my afternoon in the reading room online searching informations for everything I can think of.
Still got one more week to go, I can't wait till I finish the placement and go back home. I want to go home now! Gillian is on her way home now, 2 more hours to go and she will be touched down in Singapore Changi Airport. I wish I could go home together with her!! Anyway I am counting down the day to 24th Aug where I will be flying home! :p
On the very last day of my placement with Boots, one of my colleagues, a senior dispenser, brought out a bouquet of flower and a gift bag for me, telling me that, "We did some collection among the staffs and we bought you flower and chocolates as a gift...." my tears were almost dropped out, I was really touched when I see the bouquet of flower, to be honest this is the first bouquet of flower I ever received from friends. Darling was teasing me by saying that I had no any feeling when he gave me roses but I can easily get touched by someone else flowers! But i was in a real shock when I see the gifts from them, and they gave me a box of chocolate and 2 box of cosmetic gift sets. And also, I will never forget the warm tight hugs from my tutor before I left the store, and our tears almost drop at the moment but we managed to control it!
In the hospital, I admit I'd learnt quite alot of clinical stuffs that I will never remember from studies, but most of the time I am so bored, we are not allow to do any work in the hospital other than OBSERVING!! I love ward rounding, the most enjoyable moment in the hospital, can get a chance to look at all difference type of patients, get to learn all the clinical knowledge, get to watch all difference field of professionals walking around (too bad most of the doctors are old men, haven't seen a good looking young handsome men yet!) but it could be quite sad seeing patients in pain or suffering from a disease. I've learnt to appreciate with all I have now and I know how lucky I am now after seeing and comparing myself with those patients.
In this whole week, I spent most of my morning session doing ward rounding, been to different wards every morning, observed on how pharmacy technician take patient's drug history, what pharmacist do in ward, how to help to improve patient's quality of life, check on the drug chart to find is there any interaction between drugs and also suggest any further recommendation on drugs. I really enjoy them. But in the afternoon after lunch break, it is really killing me, as I will have nothing to do then. I have been scheduled to stay in the dispensary every afternoon but the hospital is so quiet that we hardly get busy in the dispensary, so I spent most of my afternoon in the reading room online searching informations for everything I can think of.
Still got one more week to go, I can't wait till I finish the placement and go back home. I want to go home now! Gillian is on her way home now, 2 more hours to go and she will be touched down in Singapore Changi Airport. I wish I could go home together with her!! Anyway I am counting down the day to 24th Aug where I will be flying home! :p
