...Catina Hunter 7/14/2014 The Worth of a Pharmacy Technician The Essentials of College Writing The work of a pharmacy technician can be both complex and stressful. We are not paid enough. For me it’s complex because I have to where many hats. It’s also stressful because not only do we have to deal with sometimes irate pharmacist but also facility employees. I have to even sometimes correct the pharmacist we are trained to assist. Our pay does not reflect the work or effort we put into our jobs. Even though we do more work physically and mentally than the pharmacist our pay does not reflect it. My work is far more important than what we are paid for. I on a daily basis assist customers, enter prescripstions, check inventory of controls, make sure patients get their meds in a timely fashion and deal with sometimes egotistical pharmacist who think we are nothing. I work for a Long Term Care pharmacy. Where our patients are most important. Dealing with families of patients who are end of life is also stressful. Will the comfort meds get there soon enough. Which is also stressful. I have to deal with nurses that think we are magician and can make things happen in a blink of an eye. Some technicians make less than $10 an hour. Which I think is unfair. I have argued this point for the other technicians for years. Some are even certified. Why be certified if a technician is barely making more than minimum wage? I work in the control department. I have been accused of not doing my...
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...Who’s constantly waiting for you to come home, get excited to see you, and is always there when your day was stressful? Your pet, he or she is always there for you. They’re your best friend and you wouldn’t want anything to happen to them. But, if something does. I’m here to help. I’m a veterinary technician, and I’ll make sure your pet will get the best care. I’ll take care of them and make sure the veterinary knows what’s wrong with your pet. If you are an animal lover like me and cares a lot about animals. Then you should read how to become a veterinary technician. I’ll tell you that being a vet tech is more than you think. I’ll talk to you about the work environment, education, salary, and the duties & skills. The work environment in veterinary technician is stressful. In a vet clinic, illnesses and injuries are common. One has to be able to handle being kicked, bitten, scratched, and more when holding,...
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...A pharmacy technician serves as the right hand to the pharmacist. Since they’ll work so closely together, it’s a good idea for the pharmacist to participate in the job interview whenever possible. The tech takes orders, counts pills, mixes custom prescriptions and processes insurance claims. A busy pharmacy needs to rely on the tech for accuracy and reliability. Sponsored Link Best Interview Answers The 3 Things You Should Never Say in a Job Interview. Check Them Out! www.InterviewSuccessFormula.com How Does Your Background Prepare You for This Job? Pharmacy techs don’t need to go through any formal training, although it helps if they’ve been through at least some form of formal training at a community college or trade school. On the other hand, someone who follows directions well and is a fast learner may move into the position after on-the-job training. At the same time, the tech must be able to show a state license in areas where it’s required. Even if the state doesn’t require a license, however, candidates who have taken the exam to get the credentials will bring some level of expertise to the role. Tell Me About a Time When You Had a Difficult Customer Pharmacy technicians interact with customers, physicians, staff at doctors’ offices and insurance companies. They need to be able to smooth over confrontations when they happen because dealing with the public and the professional community nearly guarantees conflict at some time. Recruiters...
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...Career fields today are hard to choose from. One may want to be a doctor while another will want to be a Veterinary Technician. As a Veterinary Technician one will take a person’s animal into their own hands. The animal could be sick, and the Technician will have to nurse it back to health. Without this profession people would have no way of diagnosing their animals and potentially saving their lives. Even the vaccinations potentially save one’s life. When going into the Veterinary Technician profession, it is important to know about the education, daily work, rewards, drawbacks, and the issues of spaying or neutering an animal. In order to become a Veterinary Technician there is some education required. During the college years of a major...
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...will entertain people. I got interested in this career from taking video classes here at Phoenix High School. Working as a video editor you will be working in front of a computer, indoors repeating the same movements(“Emergency Medical technician”). Being a video editor you will be in a studio most of the time or you can be working at home depending on the project. Yes you can certainly work I from home you just need...
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...Jay, an Emergency Room Technician, is walking into work. It is 6:40 am, his shift starts at 7 am but he is required to clock-in earlier and attend the “shift huddle” (the huddle is where the incoming staff gets any pertinent information about what happened during the previous shift). It is 7:05 am, the huddle is over and Jay is checking the assignment sheet to see where in the department he is going to be working. At this emergency department, the nurses and techs will work in one of the four sections: A-pod (for the medium acuity patients, and it also houses the psychiatric patients), B-pod (where high acuity patients such as respiratory or cardiac arrest patients go), C-pod (for low acuity patients…it is kind of like an urgent care), or Start. Today, Jay is assigned to the start desk; this is the area that processes incoming patients after they have registered to be seen at the ER. Jay will work closely with a nurse to help triage people coming into the ER, and to watch over patients in the waiting room. Jay’s primary responsibility is to take an initial set of vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation levels) on every person that comes in for treatment, and notify the nurse if any of those vital signs are abnormal. He will also help to take patients to their room once they are assigned one, help answer any questions, escort visitors, and to perform an electrocardiogram (EKG) on any patient that has a chief complaint warranting such a...
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...EMT’s treat approximately 25-30 million people each year. Emergency Medical Technicians are clinicians, trained to respond quickly to emergency situations regarding medical issues, traumatic injuries and accident scenes but are not allowed to penetrate the skin, meaning no needles or cutting into patients. EMTs and paramedics have an abundance of issues which go unnoticed in their field in today’s society. A few of these issues are gender-oriented issues, work-stress burnout, and PTSD. From the beginning, emergency medical services in the United States has been a male-dominated occupation. There have been data tests used to determine the male to female percentage. According to the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, “men make...
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...receive care for heart attacks, strokes, and other types of cardiovascular diseases. NHMS was quickly able to recruit a quality physician to head the unit as well as additional professional staff, however finding qualified technicians have become much more difficult than originally anticipated. The problem does not seem to be so much in terms of the position being attractive to candidates, but rather a lack of skilled technicians in the immediate region. Most of the skilled technicians are already employed, and are not actively seeking jobs with other organizations. In order to fill the 35 technician positions, the director of staffing has created a new staffing strategy that includes the following: 1. Place advertisement in the local newspapers 2. Contact staffing agencies that specializes in placing technicians into health care facilities 3. Organize a job fair and invite local professionals to attend 4. Offer a $1,000 signing bonus to anyone who joins the organization and stays for at least 180 days Although these four staffing strategies have the potential to increase the pool of candidates, I do not believe this strategy is strong enough nor will it be sufficient in aligning with the strategic goals of NHMS in filling 35 technician positions. The current...
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...I would welcome the opportunity to arrange a brief meeting to introduce myself, discuss your current and future business needs, as well as, how I can be an asset to your company. Thank Larry Pope | 202 shortreed Rd | Jacksonville Fl. 32254 | Moblie: 904-300-4620 | lpope429@yahoo.com | | Objective | | | I am seeking a challenging and professional affiliation as a technician with an aggressive firm that would utilize a person of my caliber, extensive talents, experience, and education to fulfill its strategic mission. | | | | Experience | Contingent Network Service inc.Field Network Tech,2010- Present Memphis. TnInstall cable cat 5 router,switch | | Misource, Jacksonville, FL | | Project Manager, 2008 - 2010 | | Install test and or terminate fiber, cat 5, 6, 3 and install all hardware includes modem, router and switches. All on Military bases and under military compliance. | | | | Audio Visual Innovation, Jacksonville, FL | | Project Manager, 2005 - 2007 | | Handled job assignment for entire office sales and technicians. Resolved all builders and customers questions and complaints. Mapped all jobs before and after completion.Use Microsoft office and good with 2000 and XP. | | | | US Data & Voice inc., Jacksonville, FL | | Project manager, 2001 - 2005 | | Install and test terminate cat5,3,and 6 wiring for phone and data system in offices . | | | |...
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...Factors to consider when choosing an appliance repair technician There are several things that make lives easier. Gadgets are some of these things. They help in completing work within a short period of time and also ensure that the work is done effectively. Sometimes these gadgets or electronics many fail to work as expected. They might fail to work due to different factors. One of the factors is poor maintenance. They need to be regularly checked by an expert for any faults. Using them when they are not functioning accordingly can lead to greater problems to the user and also to the machine. Some machines which have loose connections can lead to electrocutions. This is very dangerous as it can lead to death. Apart from that, faulty machines consume a lot of energy and the output is very low. This brings the power bills up and also if the apparatus are not fixed on time they can break down completely. Only the qualified technicians are allowed to handle the problems. There is a lot that one has to be exposed about the machines before one can fully be able to fix any problem. It is not easy to get one who is qualified. Most of them who are qualified have tight schedules and thus becomes impossible to schedule an appointment with them. Others are very expensive and it becomes difficult to hire them. However, there are other ways that one can use to get to the right and affordable persons. One of the ways is through research. Research on the papers or the internet can leave...
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...Cellphone No.: 0935-968-0915 CAREER OBJECTIVE: To obtain a full time position in a company which offers a professional working environment that enables me to grow while meeting the corporation’s goals. WORK EXPERIENCE: TOYO INK (PHIL.) CO. INC. Laboratory Technician / Research and Development Chemist 106-B, Integrity Ave., Carmelray Industrial Park, Canlubang, Calamba, Laguna Philippines (September 2009 to November 2012) - Duties and Responsibilities • In-process Quality Checking of Pigment Paste, Gravure, Offset, Silkscreen and Waterbased Inks. • Performs Color Matching Job for Gravure, Offset, Silkscreen and Waterbased Inks. • Evaluate incoming raw materials. • Prepare small batches of Gravure, Offset, Silkscreen and Waterbased Inks. • Prepare Certificate of Inspections for finished products. • Technical Service on customers when needed. (ex. Trial Run for evaluation of approved products.) - Handle the following machines and equipments: • Variable mixer for Offset Inks and Silkscreen Inks • RI Tester • RK Proofer • Spectro Densitometer (X-rite 500 series) DeGustibus Computer Repair and Printing Services (Family Business) Computer Technician / Maintenance Brgy. Matabungkay Lian Batangas (January 2013 – December 2013 ) Duties and Responsibilities • Install and configure local area data communications networks which may carry data, voice and video communications following organization standards...
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...inconvenienced every day due to the late and missed appointments. In the scheduling process of the appointments the company tries to make each customer happy by giving them the date they are requesting. With this being the case the days ends up getting overbooked. The company allows an overbooking percentage of up to 103-105% for the load. While the company is giving the customer the date they want, essentially they are pushing other customers out of the load. There are managers assigned to each state and those states are broken down into different regions i.e. north, south, east, west. It is the duty of the load manager to make sure that each job gets assigned to a technician so that every customer is serviced in a timely manner. The company expects that there will be unforeseen events that may cause the technicians to run behind i.e. traffic, car issues, and wrong addresses on the account. The company provides a 4 hour appointment window, for example, 8am-12pm. The company does notify the...
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...References 9 Section 1: Target Organization - Identifying the Network * My organization is located in Pompano Beach, FL with a secondary warehouse location at Sunrise, FL. The company employs around 1,400 to 1,500 employees which 300-400 are computer and mobile device network user. * All of our users must use password protected sign on to access the network which gives access to our main software systems. * The company uses to Dell servers, one for back up and one for daily accessing. * The IT department consists of 5 employees; * IT manager – Supervises all IT technicians and Help desk operators. * Network I technician – overviews and maintains network protocols, ensures regular server maintenance is executed. * Network II Technician – gives back up to Network I and provides different analytical services to users. * Help desk technicians I and II – Executes more regular tasks, such as user maintenance, printer set up, workstation access and set up, and mobile devices. Section 2: Diagramming the Network - Network Architecture Our main server is at our Pompano location which controls all of our logical aspects of the network. Main server is a Section 3: Network Models Transport Layer Section 4: Network Protocols and Agents Section 5: Network Security Section 6: Network Management...
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...(50 points) Chapter 1 Assignments Read Chapter 1. I encourage you to do all of the exercises. However, only report on those listed below. Exercise 1.1 (as written): 1 through 8. Exercise 1.2 (as written): 1 through 4. Exercise 1.3: Report your answers to the 6 entries from pg. 10. Exercise 1.4: List the 3 careers which you labeled 1,2,3, and 20. For each one, explain why you labeled the occupation with that level of status. For example: 1) Auto technician: I ranked auto. technicians number 1 because nearly everyone relies on automobiles for transportation. Without transportation, most people would not be able to support themselves or a family. Auto. technicians serve a crucial role in maintaining our standards of living. Exercise 1.1 First Impressions 1. I am a student athlete. 2. I need to stop procrastinating. 3. I want to graduate with my AA in May. 4. My current life stage in selecting a career has been altered recently, but is still moving in the right direction. 5. I would like to change my work ethic to be a little stronger. 6. If all goes well in the next five years, I will be doing the following things: Settled down with a family somewhere, financially stable, with my career established, possibly kids on the way! 7. If things go poorly in the next five year, I will be doing: more schooling to get another degree to change my career paths, not married or not even in a relationship, and financially unstable, but...
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...Date: Feb. 20, 2014 To: Ken Weston From: Islam Nassar Subject: Computer technician's issues. I would like to inform you that I am facing a major issue in our company. In the past month, three computer technicians suffered from similar complaints such as, sharp pains in the wrist, increasing numbness, and decreased range of motion. I have never had these complaints in this short time and the severity of symptoms seems to be increasing. I consulted experts from the sport and orthopedic medicine clinic about this major issue. They described these symptoms as repetitive strain injuries that might require surgeries if the cause of these symptoms is not corrected. Also, the physical therapist believes that exercise and wrist splints may help relieve symptoms and she recommended the consultation of an ergonomic analyst who recommended that, after his visit and observation of the company's work environment and equipment, the old keyboards should be replaced with ergonomic ones and every mouse should be replaced with a trackball. I investigated this situation from perspective of cost-benefit analysis. the ergonomic keyboards are designed to split the traditional rows of keys in half and to place the rows of keys at different angles, allowing the wrists to stay straight and relieving pressure on the forearm. Also trackballs do not require the repetitive clicking motion of the forefinger. Although following the recommendations of experts are costly, I think that they will avoid...
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