CDR Part II

Usually, we do not receive chemo orders on Thursdays because that's just the way it is. And if we do, we will only entertain those that come in before 12pm (on normal days).
However, as I was happily on my way out for lunch at 1pm sharp today (after 1 week of not being able to go out for lunch at the normal lunch time), the phone suddenly rang.

Me: Selamat petang, Farmasi Chemo.
Staff Nurse: Selamat petang, saya SN ..... dari Wad ..... Boleh tak kita indent ubat chemo untuk seorang patient sekarang? Patient baru masuk tengah hari tadi dan doktor baru habis ward round.
Me: Patient kena guna chemo hari ni ke?
SN: Ya. Keadaan patient sesuai untuk chemo..(Proceeded with patient's lab results)
Me: OK..Apakah regime chemo patient ni?
SN: FOLFOX.
Me: (OMG what the tooting hell?!) Bolehkah tunggu sebentar, saya tanya pegawai saya dulu?

Thereafter, the conversation went on.

Conclusion:
I had to prepare the worksheet and labels and take out the necessary items for reconstitution. During my supposed normal lunch time. On a Thursday.

Luckily, I did not need to do the reconstitution. If not...But there's no point having lunch at 2pm cause I get off work at 3.30pm. Crap happens.

Cytotoxic Drug Reconstitution

Yes! I made it through my first ever cytotoxic drug reconstitution process without injuring myself or killing myself with the cytotoxic drug!

Somehow CDR is still kinda boring. It's cause I have to wait for the orders to come until noon before anything can be carried out. And all I can do there is read the the manuals, protocols etc. until noon arrives and the reconstitution work can be carried out.

I can finally get back from work on time but I feel weird cause I'm so not used to this much free time. I still have 1 report and 1 CPD to do and I'm still slacking away...

Office Girl

During the past week in my new rotation at Drug Information Services I have been:

1. Making photocopies of documents etc.
2. Binding documents.
3. Cutting carbon paper into tiny little squares.
   
4. Adding up sums for statistical purposes.
   
5. Preparing and sending out papers to be signed.
6. Preparing notices for presentations.
   
7. Becoming a sort of telephone operator and letter receiver.
   
8. Updating the formulary which contains 1467 drugs (had to convert it from pdf to excel, rearrange it in excel then categorize it according to Malaysian Drug Code indication and discipline).
9. And so far, I have only answered 3 drug info queries in the past week...
   

Now I'm being paid a pharmacist's salary for doing most of an office girl's job. *smirk*

New Year's coming

Chinese New Year is coming soon and I'm so excited!
Had a sudden pang and I miss KL out of the blue, feels like a long time since I went back but it was just 3 weeks ago. Maybe it's cause of the people here going to KL in turns every week.
And it's like they say "you can take the girl out of the city but you can't take the city out of the girl".

Can't stand fakers

I seriously can't stand people who like to fake it.
Seriously, can you do everyone a favor and get a freaking life?

And about that misunderstanding picture, if that picture is already that old and the topic is so yesterday news, can you not stick your sore butt in and add outdated comments on it?
Seriously, just fcuk off.

And provisionally registered pharmacists in HSNZ are not allowed to dispense at the ACC Pharmacy (outpatient) even though they have been in the hospital for almost half year and this is their second rotation at ACC.
I'm already in my 7th week at ACC and yesterday I was told that I could start labelling already after doing filling for 2 weeks. Like, are you seriously kidding me? I did more dispensing during my first rotation there (also my first month of my hospital placement) compared to after 4 months of training.
We're being paid a pharmacist's salary for doing an assistant pharmacist's job. Twisted.

Sick again?

Head's feeling fuzzy and eyes feel swollen..wonder if it's another bout of flu coming soon or just another case of insufficient sleep?

I miss home even though I just got back from KL yesterday. I can never stop missing home.

Payday

Finally, it's payday!
Thanks to the Deepavali holidays, we get to have our pay in advance so now I have 2 months pay!
Having mixed feelings though...I was happy because I'm finally earning my own keep but I did not felt as excited as I should have been when I got my first pay.
Maybe it's due to my long and hectic day at work today. In addition, I have an on-call this Saturday at the Methadone Clinic. Hate on-calls.
Just waiting to go back to KL this Deepavali...