huh? you're back in school? here's why.

i've been meaning to address this topic for a while now and

since whenever i post a 'yay! my exam is over!' or 'can't.stay.awake.this.is.so.dry.'

remark, someone wonders what the heck i'm doing

i thought i would actually blog about what the heck i'm doing

so you're all in the know!

yay!

my occupation is a pharmacy assistant (note, not technician as the wording

has changed) and as of 2010, the college of pharmacists of bc 

have implemented a bridging program

to expand the role of a pharmacy assistant

and thus granting the title 'technician'

huh?

this means that as a regulated pharmacy technician

i will have the ability to have independent authority, responsibility

and liability to prepare, process and compound

prescriptions including:

-receive and transcribe verbal prescriptions from practitioners

-ensure that a prescription is complete and authentic

-transfer prescriptions to and receive prescriptions from other pharmacies

-perform the final check on a prepared prescription

(i snagged that from the college website lol)

pretty neat eh!

so to explain all of the schooling, the bridging program

is broken down into 4 modules, 3 of which you can

challenge (meaning just write an exam on the subject)

and 1 mandatory class on ethics

i'm happy to say that i've successfully completed the 3 exams

and i am now onto the final portion of the bridging program.

but it doesn't stop there!

THEN i have to register with the pharmacy examining board of canada

and write the evaluating exam (in april) which will tell me if 

i'm prepared to write the 2 day qualifying exam in september.

if all goes well i'll be calling myself a regulated pharmacy technician by the

end of this year!

go me!



when i'm all done, i'm totally gonna take a cheesy picture of
myself in a lab coat with my arms folded.

so now i'd just like to thank all of you for your continued 

support and all the "yay!"s you've been giving me,

they really mean a lot! :)

thank you!