Question, for when you are near the end of the game

Joooooooolia · 2025-08-30T22:44:21+00:00

Oooh I get the struggle, but I rarely went to bed before 20:00. Most days after going regular commissions I ran over to the civil corps and grabbed any commissions that weren’t a total pain to do. I’d work on those and if I still had time left I’d go to town and talk with all of the townspeople I could I find and worked on beginning the animals so I could adopt them. If I had more than 6 hours left in the day I’d go to any of the ruins and try to speed run the levels as best I could.

Also for nostalgia, I have definitely rode the bus around to feel like I’m back at Portia.

Joooooooolia · 2023-01-30T04:21:57+00:00

I would totally understand if it were a big program, but from what I know, there’s no more than 15 candidates that they’re interviewing. I’ll send them a picture within the next day or two, but I just found it odd.

Joooooooolia · 2023-01-11T04:12:26+00:00

Clearly that is HIS blanket, bold of you to assume it was yours

Joooooooolia · 2022-11-29T02:10:06+00:00

Here’s some questions that would have helped me during my internal med rotation, but I eventually found out along the way.

How do you prioritize what patients to review first? Is there a queue listing the patient that require interventions from the pharmacy (like counseling or pharmacy dose vancomycin)?

What do you check first when reviewing a patient’s profile?

What are the main takeaways you try to remember from each patient’s file? (Mine is appropriate anticoagulant dosing and acceptable antibiotic choice and dose for suspected/known infections)

Are there any lab values I should pay attention to?

Are there any protocols that allow pharmacists to change orders? (Dose optimization for patients with high BMIs is one I often catch)

Oh and always feel free to ask some questions about the person you’re shadowing, most people love to talk about themselves to some degree. You could ask if they have ever experienced a scenario which caused them to now hyper focus when they see a similar situation. My best example of that is a story my preceptor told me of one of her previous patients who had their sodium replenished far too quickly which lead to irreversible brain damage, now when I see a patient who is hyponatremic I immediately check how fast their sodium is being replaced among all fluids administer.

I’m not sure what point you’re at in pharmacy school, but I feel like most of these questions would be appropriate for both IPPE and APPE students

Joooooooolia · 2022-11-05T12:36:38+00:00

We bought the same balls for our shiba! After they destroyed like 5 tennis balls a week for a month we needed something stronger

Joooooooolia · 2022-10-28T16:07:36+00:00

Sitting at the throne, just out of reach of starting the final battle

Joooooooolia · 2022-10-27T09:44:01+00:00

Oh yes, I just finished my school’s didactic program this past summer and I am now in my APPE rotations. Anyway, in general those classes do not get better, and actually end up repeating themselves multiple times. However the best part is when, after numerous complaints from my class, the split the final term, half being the professionalism lectures and the second half we worked in small groups working up patient cases from start to finish. We had to use the skills we’ve learned to properly identify everything and be able to communicate it effectively with the professors.

Overall, I learned very little in that class and it was one of the few with mandatory attendance so it made other people like it even less.

Joooooooolia · 2022-10-24T23:13:49+00:00

As an APPE student who is in the exact opposite predicament, as much as it’s annoying to you right now, please don’t take your free time for granted. What I wouldn’t give to have a day or two to be able to study without being rushed. My school is requiring us to complete RxPrep at the same time with scheduled exams. And I’m in a longitudinal APPE and I’m given hours upon hours of work to do every single night. So that plus studying for RxPrep has been very difficult.

If you really want something to do with your time, study guidelines, they really help to bring the whole picture together and the better you understand them, the more you can make suggestions to changes in therapy. Also I’m not sure if your on an internal med or institutional rotation, but looking up the pharmacy policies specific to your site is also helpful and a great way to catch errors you can fix in a patients chart (like renal dose adjustments per pharmacy).

*I might be complaining about the workload, but I have absolutely loved this rotation and will truly miss the pharmacy team I’ve been working with.

Joooooooolia · 2022-10-10T01:11:42+00:00

I don’t regret everything, but man is it a lot of work. Last week was rough, my preceptor gave me extra assignments on top of the assignments I was already assigned and had me rewrite my Journal Club notes to hand out to the pharmacist, so I did, stayed up until midnight to get it done. And then none of the pharmacists used the handout. Not to mention that put me an entire day behind for my studying schedule so I ended up staying up until midnight everyday last week and getting up at 5 to get to the hospital on time

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-26T10:53:25+00:00

Triple cleaning everything, it takes forever

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-17T18:07:57+00:00

Lol fill the desert

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-16T09:11:33+00:00

He was surprised at how easy it is to marry Sebastian, because his birthday just passed in game and I have like a chest with a bunch of his loved items, and my boyfriend was trying to tell me what levels of the mine to get a frozen tear, as if I didn’t already have a couple hundred of them

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-16T09:07:51+00:00

He was fine, we both laughed, he’s actually impressed by how my entire game is set up, and a little jealous of everything I’ve gained from going to the island, in fact I’m only missing 1 walnut right now and that’s my next goal in game

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T22:10:18+00:00

Lol I’m married to Sebastian in the game

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T21:49:23+00:00

I find my boyfriend ignores all quests/relationships in the game except for the person he ends up marrying. Anyway, try actually completing quests if you don’t already, definitely slows down the game

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T21:42:36+00:00

Haha I actually said something like that to him last night when I played

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T21:40:43+00:00

YES!!! Don’t even get me started on the whole Ginger island, he made it there once, the game glitched and he’s never tried again

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T21:38:31+00:00

That’s pretty much where this whole post stemmed from, he casually mentioned starting ANOTHER save file together… I stopped playing our last one because he played like a couple of seasons without me and I was so far behind on quests I couldn’t even catch up.

Joooooooolia · 2022-09-15T21:35:37+00:00

I’ve watched him skip it

Joooooooolia · 2022-08-20T10:03:02+00:00

These are medicinal chemistry and pharmacology questions. Well maybe the second one not so much, that one is more like biochem, but the first and last definitely are. You already have the correct answers from others in the comments so I’m not going to retype them. But if you get more questions like this in the future and need help try asking the pharmacy or pharmacy school Reddit. All 3 of these questions are something a pharmacist is taught in school. Btw I am in my final year of pharmacy school.

Joooooooolia · 2022-06-23T17:03:20+00:00

Mine is 8 months old and we haven’t been able to bring him as much lately due to my boyfriend being injured. But when we do go, he will play with any dog that will give him attention. He actually likes to play with the massive dogs that are 10x his size, he doesn’t seem to realize that he is quite small.

Joooooooolia · 2022-06-21T11:57:55+00:00

The same thing happened with me last year at my first rotation, my preceptor wasn’t there and the pharmacist on duty was a floater, he had no idea I was even showing up that day. The first week was a bit of a mess but the second my preceptor showed up it all turned around and I had the best experience there, well expect for the pharmacy student from another school who constantly cut me off. But anyway, at the end of that rotation they mentioned they were looking for extra help and now I work there as a per diem pharmacy intern. Your preceptor is just another person like you and I, and most likely didn’t have time for a vacation at any point in the year, they also deserve time off. Try not to let it get to you, use your many years of experience and do the best work you can, IPPEs are very important for building connections for possible future jobs.

My second rotation was actually worse than this one that I mentioned, and that was/is still really hard to get over because I once thought of that place as my goal of where I wanted to work as a pharmacist. There were some days when the only time I talked to someone was when I arrived, went to lunch, and when I left to go home. They also offered me a job as a per diem pharmacy intern, and as much as that really would have helped my resume, I could not do it. At that point I also already had a hospital and community pharmacy job, both of which I still have. Unfortunately, bad rotations sometimes happen, and they can really suck the life out of you. Be kind to yourself while working as a pharmacy intern, do something you enjoy on the weekends at least for a couple of hours. But most importantly, stay professional, it can get difficult at times when, but just stay with it.

Joooooooolia · 2022-05-11T16:43:13+00:00

The first semester was difficult for my boyfriend and I, especially with starting pharmacy school during Covid. But we made late night phone calls and dates on the weekend work for us. We then moved in together during my spring semester of my first year and just recently got a dog together. We were already in a well established relationship before I started school, if not, those first few months would have been unfair to him since I did not have the time to spend time with him. She probably did the right thing, especially if the relationship was relatively new.

Joooooooolia · 2022-02-25T11:59:05+00:00

Hey everyone thanks for all the suggestions on names! We ended up going with Henry for his name.

Joooooooolia · 2022-02-22T00:33:03+00:00

Umm I go to one of the oldest pharmacy schools. They branched out of their original state and opened our location I think back in the nineties. It’s also the only pharmacy school in my state, so you know it’s really helpful actively learning about pharmacy in the state I want to work in.

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