Becoming A Community Pharmacist In Australia

Set of ethical values for a successful pharmacist

Question:

Discuss about the Establish of Successful Pharmacist.

In today’s world, the community pharmacists are the professionals in the medical field who are easily approachable by the public and they provide medicines according to the prescriptions provided by the doctors and in some cases when it is legally permitted according to the acquired degree of that particular practitioner, he or she can give medicines without any prescriptions of the doctors. Apart from that, I want to become a pharmacist in Australia in order to ensure that the patients are getting the appropriate and accurate supply of the medicines when needed. I strongly believe that my professional activities will surely include the counseling of the patients if needed and assistance in recognizing the effective side effects and issues related overdosing the medicines. In short I would surely try to let the patients know the details of the drugs they will be using to prevent any types of undesirable situations.I believe that to make the health sector better, there is a strong need of leadership to direct the pharmacists. There are adequate human resources in this particular sector, but I believe that if I acquire strong leadership qualities, I will be able to contribute much more in this field of work.I would try my best to maintain the link between the patients and the other professionals in health sector regarding primary health issues.

As a professional in medical sector I strongly believe that there is a set of ethical values that are inherent in me and those values would surely help me to establish myself as a successful pharmacist. The values include, I have to be honest with the patients and I would not ever sell them inappropriate products that would not be beneficiary for them or the medicines that may harm them. I would let the patients know everything about the composition of the drugs and the effectiveness of those medicines and all the details regarding the overdose of the product or possible side effects, so that the individuals can maintain proper caution before using the medicines. I would not ever sell medicines which are outdated and I shall never sell medicines which are duplicate. The burning issue of a society nowadays is that many manufacturers are spreading cartons of duplicate medicines. These duplicate medicines can heal nothing and in most cases they are pretty harmful for internal or external issues (Irwin &Weidmann, 2015). These practices must need to be stopped and I strongly condemn the individuals who are engaged in such practices.

Action plan for becoming a successful pharmacist in Australia

I believe that I do not possess adequate emotional and cultural intelligence to recognize the emotions of the patients who would come to me and I guess I will have to work on my emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence to be surely able to make them relax and solve their issues. The cultural intelligence that I possess I think will not majorly help me to understand the issues of the patients who may come from various ethnicities, thus I will have to enhance my communication with people from different cultural background.

Milestone start date_ end date	Milestone	Steps
10.01.2017_ 10.03.2017	Achieving enough emotional intelligence in order to manage the emotions of the patients	·         Not judging individuals too quickly ·         To be able to connect with the thought process of the patients ·         Listening to the intuitions
10.03.2017 _ 10.07.2017	Achieving enough cultural intelligence to be able to provide services to the individuals who come from various cultural background	·         By proactively learning about various cultures ·         Developing a self awareness regarding numerous cultures ·         Getting involved in discussion with individuals from different cultural background
10.07.2017 _ 10.12.2017	Full knowledge of basic medicines for normal fever, cough and cold, cuts, general injuries	Thorough reading of the study books regarding these issues and getting passed the first semester
10.12.2017 _ 10. 06.2018	Thorough knowledge of medicines for critical illness	Thorough reading of the books and getting good results in second and third semester
10.06.2018 _ 10.12.2018	Recognizing the illness from the symptoms	Thorough reading and passing the exams, and along with that proactive participation while doing internship

The main objective of this action plan is to establish myself as a success pharmacist in Australia within two years. As I have a lot of shortcomings along with little strength, I will have to focus more on the self-development as a professional in this field. I strongly believe that in this particular field we, the aspiring professionals should work hard to get to the bottom of it so that we can ensure that the patients will be under the best possible hands to get treated. The type of works we, as pharmacists do requires a lot of determination and concentration to acquire the necessary skills to excel in this field as a professional (Irwin &Weidmann, 2015).

For getting successful as a professional, I would have to consider the fact that I will have to get engaged in serious studies to get to know the information of the medicines so that I can effectively treat the patients and by no means they get misguided by my mistakes. This is the vital point, where the practitioners who have lesser knowledge regarding the medicines often end up misleading the patients (Benslimane&Khalifa, 2016). This is something that is not at all desired and we should consider this issue by placing ourselves at the place of the patients. What if we end up like that in the hands of a practitioner who has no clue about the medicines. This is how we can develop ourselves like professionals and we can feel the pain of the patients. It is a matter of fact that knowledge of various cultures and the inability to manage emotions might become strong barriers in front of my objectives, but I know that I will have to work more diligently in order to eradicate these issues. I will have to work more on the knowledge of various cultures and evolve in order to manage the emotions of the patients.

Importance of knowledge and good leadership quality

I was surprised to see that there are many pharmacists working in Australia who are not enough educated or lacks knowledge regarding the medicines and misleading the patients (Bullock et al., 2016). I have witnessed some cases where due to lack of their knowledge, these practitioners misguided the patients in a way that actually their illness aggravated. This is something that is not at all desired and these practices need to be stopped immediately. The chief fearful element in the process of my course is when I will have to do my internship; I will have to treat real patients and that too by judging the symptoms. This part is the hardest of all and I will have to participate in the internship in a way so that I can grab all the knowledge that is going to be shared among us. I think that the way we, pharmacists work in an institution, strong leadership quality is necessary. If the pharmacists work under a leader who can motivate the staffs subordinate to him, the productivity will surely get increased (Benslimane&Khalifa, 2016). I believe that good leadership quality is needed in this sector and I would like to groom myself in a way so that I can take the position of a leader one day. For this reason I will have to work on my shortcomings, and those are to increase my ability to handle the emotions of the patients and along with that I will have to gather knowledge regarding various cultures, so that I can communicate with individuals who come from different cultural background (Aronson &Janke, 2015). During this course already I have pointed out some of my shortcomings on which right now I am working on, and I guess I will be able to point out some more during my course. I think that working on my shortcomings shall lead me to the place I have dreamt for and that is successfully working as a professional in Australia. I am aiming to join St John QLD for my internship as a volunteer pharmacist and I think that I will be able to discover all of my strengths and weaknesses while working there. That is going to be a very vital point of my career.

The most important things that I have discovered already about myself are my strong will power. I can use my will to enhance my level of motivation towards my work. I see my work not as my responsibility; rather I look at it like it is my duty towards my society. It is a matter of fact that I believe if I cure one individual that would be showing my gratitude towards the society, the society raised me and let me be what I am now. I strongly believe that all the professionals in this field should have this type of a mindset. Apart from that, I found that I am naturally become very sympathetic towards the patients and start thinking that those issues are mine. This mindset is not very appropriate in this field and I should work on that because we, the pharmacists should not get too much involved with the issues of any particular patient in order to maintain an equal amount of consciousness towards all the cases.

Sharpening skills and gaining experience in the profession

After the end of my professional course I would like to volunteer in St John QLD in order to sharpen my skills as a professional and while working there I will get some real time experience by treating patients. While doing my internship I will get more information about various diseases and I will acquire the ability to diagnose the issues more accurately by judging the symptoms. After completion of my professional course, I will put stress on judging the diseases looking at the symptoms. This is the part where I will have to focus more and I will do that because I want to excel as a professional in this field and I do not want that any other individual gets into trouble because of me.

I feel that having conversations with my colleagues would not have much effect on me until and unless they have high motivating quality (Balaji& Krishnan, 2014). I believe that every professional in this field must possess composer and they should have a strong leadership quality conversing with the colleagues in the workplace will have various effects as something will be on the negative end and some of the effects will be positive. It is a matter of fact that in this field if professionals share their experiences while conversing, that would be more fruitful and have a positive impact (Aronson &Janke, 2015).The professionals in this field have to be extra cautioned regarding these issues and they should proactively participate in various events where they would gain experiences regarding diagnosing the diseases and gain more knowledge about the medicines in order to successfully treating the patients (Balaji& Krishnan, 2014).

Thus to conclude, it can be said that to become successful as a pharmacist in Australia I believe that there are requirement of three basic qualities and those are passion for the work, dedication and having a mindset dedicated to serve the community along with a bit of leadership quality. Having these qualities I think anyone can pursue the career of a pharmacist in Australia. The individuals who are interested should take the main professional course and the internship very seriously just like I mentioned above in order to get success within a very short time. Thus, in short it can be said that this job of a pharmacist is for them who have the mentality to serve the society, one should not look at it just another job, and otherwise that individual would not be able to gather adequate motivation to work as a professional.

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