Personal Statement

“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, hold within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.” I have been lucky enough in life to discover all the blessing from good and bad experiences I’ve been through. However, the most important blessing I found so far was from my worst experience I went through two years ago. The blessing that gave me the opportunity to explore pharmacy field, to clearly understand the role of a pharmacist in patient’s health care and to finally decide to become a pharmacist myself.
Since I was little, medication and drugs have always fascinated me. I often questioned myself how such little tablet or capsule can cure your headache or make the fever go away. Those questions just simply stayed in my mind

After a lot of self-courage, I decided to stand up and took another turn that can somehow help me stay close with the pharmaceutical field. I went to a technical institute to become a pharmacy technician. There, I learn more about pharmacy and drugs such as: pharmacy calculation, pharmacy and medical terminology, pharmacy compounding and especially learned about patient’s care. After passing school, getting my state license and my national certification, I started working fulltime at QmedRx, a compounding and home infusion pharmacy in Maitland, Florida. My job duties as a pharmacy technician and an IV specialist allow me to learn all different aspects of pharmacy employees, especially pharmacist in helping patients and their role in patient’s health care. Working side by side and shadowing our pharmacists every day; seeing them checking, validating prescriptions, monitoring patient’s lab and giving consultation for patients make me realize that a good knowledge about how medication works would be useless if they was not applied in life to help other people. That was when I decided to pursue a lifelong career as a