so maybe you heard...

 I'M A PHARMACIST!  yes, you heard it right, I have successfully passed both my MPJE and NAPLEX and the state board has granted me a license.  I have also started my residency and have completed 3 days and I'm sufficiently overwhelmed and dazed and still totally enamored with the facility and the people and all the opportunities I'm going to have this year.  I'm sure I will have times this year when I wish there weren't so many "opportunities" but right now I'm just excited :-)

So the first thing I learned about my residency is that the parking lot fills up unbelievably quickly between 7am and 7:15am... not that it will probably matter most of the time since I'll be coming in earlier than 7 but it is interesting none the less...

I am looking forward to sharing my experiences in the upcoming months... right now not much to say... just getting oriented and learning the ropes... overall things are great so far :-) and, in case you missed it earlier -- I'm a PHARMACIST!!! hooray!

Nikita, PharmD

short post

naplex complete... scores to come later this week hopefully.

Tomorrow is the first day of my residency... a little nervous but excited.

B goes home after this week for the month of July.  I will miss him :-( BUT I know how much his family wants to spend some time with him so I can share...  I'm sure we'll make a weekend rendezvous more than once that month.

Anyway, more to come later this week.

one down, one to go

I took the MPJE (law exam) last Friday and was prepared to wait the full 7 business days for scores to be available... I went home for the weekend on Saturday and just left my computer so I wouldn't be tempted to check for the scores... I got back on Monday afternoon and lasted about 2 hours before I checked... I decided I would only check once per 24 hours so I waited until the next day after noon and I got on the NABP website and -- low and behold, the scores were up -- I passed!!!  So, now I need to study a little for the NAPLEX next Friday and hopefully that one goes as well or better :-)  one step closer to being a real live licensed pharmacist

goodnight

most recent excitement and upcoming terror

As you can see to the right, I have been made official... I can enter the employee parking area, I can look totally legit when walking around... basically, I am a bad-ass :-) Additionally, I am an advocate of patient safety which makes me kind of feel like a super hero... like I should be ever-vigilantly looking out for possible falling patients and medication misadventures... I will need to wear a cape I think.

ok, enough of the frivolity... my career as a pharmacy resident could be over before it begins if I can't pass the MPJE on Friday... for anyone not "in the know" that is the big ass law exam that I am required to pass before I can become licensed... Now, some of you may be asking "but I thought the NAPLEX was your big test"... and in that you are correct.  The NAPLEX is a test over my actual pharmacy knowledge... like, what I spent the past 6 years learning... this little evil devil beast of an MPJE is only the laws, both federal and state, which I of course only got 1 semester of in college followed by a 4 hour review a couple of weeks ago... now I am painstakingly going over the 80 pg packet that the review provided me in an attempt to learn enough to pass...  now I must give you the disclaimer - I do know enough law to practice... of this I am sure.  What I am not so sure of is if I know enough law to be able to perform well on a test written by lawyer types.  They are obviously evil and will almost definitely write verbose, confusing questions that make me question even my most basic abilities such as reading.

SO, back to the studying I go... I officially have less than 48 hours until test time.

Fingers crossed folks