there are differences although they are both.. pharmacies.
hospital pharmacy is more towards medications while retail pharmacy is more towards everything! :)
the feeling of working in a pharmacy is so much better than any other retail stores -_- i never knew i won't feel like crap.
getting paid as well, although i thought i was not gonna get paid. not too good but a basic part time pay.
in other branches, they are only giving me RM3.50/hour but in this branch (as what the branch manager said, this branch is having top 3 sales among other branches hence we got more work to do thus we got slightly higher pay as well) RM5/hour.
even anyone's basic salary here is higher. not bad eh?
what i've been doing:
1. stock up medications, etc
zomg 1st day was shitty because i don't know which medicine puts where & where. and also when people asked me for polytar (some anti-dandruff thing) i don't even know what's that! when i told the pharmacist i don't know what's that, she told me to learn the whole placing of the pharmacy is knowing medications alone won't help! then she asked me some basic question, "what's O.R.S.?" and i can't even answer because i don't know -_-;
2. talking
making new friends :) there's 3 other trainees as well - 1 part-time (from some local university), 1 student going into nottingham for pharmacy, 1 student planning to go to imu for nutrition. not bad eh? ;p
3. correcting product codes & prices
T_T people tagged the items (5-6 boxes of some medicine) wrongly of their product codes & prices then i gotta change it back to the correct one by re-writing :( not only once, a few times already. after re-writing my wrong coded products that i tagged on the first day, i've been trying to be very careful not to make any mistake because i hate using pen and correct the codes by cancelling it and re-write the new one, same goes to the prices on their price tags.
4. arranging medications in its cupboards
can you believe it i took 1 hour to re-arrange the things in 1 cupboard? its not even as big as a wardrobe but i took 1 hour! -_- even for syrups when they have the least items. ahh i feel so slow. but doing this helped me to know more of the medications although i don't know what is it for. most of the syrups are safe for children :)
5. price tagging
whoa my favorite. although it's not in my profession. all i need to do is to tag all the new stocked items that arrives.
6. cry on ibt days (ibt = stocking up days)
they stock thrice a week, and i thought it's once a week. i wanna cry! :( cause when they come, we gotta finish the work asap because 2 days later, new stocks will come zomg. or else you'll stack up all the stocks & you'll cry.
yep that's practically all.
i really enjoy it.
now i'm thinking of working once a week in the future once uni starts because it's really fun -_- now i'm scared if i'll get bored :(
oh sorry no pictures :D
