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Pharmacy student SIWES report Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (S.I.W.E.S) is a program designed by the university to expose students to work experience, an aspect that cannot be learned in school.

Pharmacy laboratory is not complete without a formal laboratory report. This report, which must be written and submitted within a stipulated time, should follow a pattern set out by the department.

Pharmacist Can Check Prescription for correctness In the hospital setting, medical doctors prescribe, the pharmacist dispense and counsel patients. One of the duties associated with the dispensing is checking the diagnosis with the drugs prescribed by the doctor. It is not out of place to make mistake.

Disclaimer: My decision probably has been influenced by my course of study. However, the argument presented can be faulted by anyone.

Malaria treatment with Artemether/Lumefantrine Many persons fail to heed the counsel of pharmacist as to how to take their medications. Take, for instance, the malaria drug artemether/lumefantrine is advised to be used with fatty food. Very few people really do keep to this kind of information.

The majority of Nigerians visit any nearby medical centre when they are not feeling too well. They do not consider the quality of service that is rendered in these centres.

Pharmaceutical Industry The production of drugs is kind of complex process. It starts from local school research where primary research begins. However, the pharma industry turns raw materials into finish drugs. We shall see how drugs are produced but not from the scratch though.

Patients Can Visit A Pharmacist For Minor Ailments Back in the days, so many Nigerians believe that the place of the pharmacist is simply to dispense medications to patients.

Medicine duration When you hear the word ‘drug resistance’, the first thing that crosses the mind of most medical personnel is drug abuse and misuse. This is correct.

How To Fill IT Log Book For Pharmacy Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (S.I.W.E.S) Industrial Training (I.T) was designed by the government to add to student Curriculum Vitae (C.V) after graduation.

Self-medication is the use of drugs to treat oneself without a valid medical prescription and supervision. They involve Over The Counter (O.T.C) drugs.

Warning Instructions In Medicine Reading drug product label is very important before taking any drug. The label explains some of the basics that drug users need to know.

Seminar Presentation A presentation can simply be defined as a discussion about a particular subject under study. This practice is very common in other departments in the school.

Pharmacy School Laboratory Practical, being the most basic and effective tool for imparting knowledge into students goes hand in hand with a theory for better understanding and concept building. This is especially important in the medical field including pharmacy. Pharmacy laboratories are concerned with prescribing, compounding and dispensing of drugs.

Pharmacy Technician Sandwich Program Some years back, graduates of pharmacy technicians started practising without any form of the certification examination. Just of recent, the Pharmacists Council Of Nigeria (P.C.N) introduced a certification examination for pharmacy technician graduates.

Fainting Fainting is a word that evokes fear in the minds of Nigerians who usually attribute such occurrence to lack of blood in the body of the sufferer. In other words, people who are believed to lack blood are more prone to it.

Admission Options For Pharmacy School There are various options available for pharmacy aspirants to gain admission into pharmacy. Different schools offer different or many options. Aspirants can opt in to the one that is more favorable because they are all legal. A lot of intending pharmacy students find it difficult getting into the pharmacy profession. This is because the means of getting admission to Study pharmacy is somewhat limited. A lot of pharmacy students today gain admission into institutions using the most popular means, which is through Joint Admission Matriculation Board (J.A.M.B), Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (U.T.M.E). However, we shall see all the options available to Nigerian students to gain admission to study pharmacy in a Nigerian university. Read Also:  How To Become A Pharmacist In Nigeria JAMB UTME This is the oldest and most common means of securing admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. To gain admission into the p...

Pharmacist To most Nigerians, the duty or job of a pharmacist is to dispense medications from a medical doctor to a patient. This is because that is what they see most times in the hospital when they visit. However, the function of the pharmacist is so vast.

injection and oral product As a child, we had little choice as to the nature of medication we want. As we grow older, our choices were moulded mostly by our childhood experiences.

Soft Drink Drug absorption in the body is a very complex topic. This is because drug manufacturers focus their research on the effects of drug absorption on certain medical conditions.  They hardly carry out experiments on what happens to drug absorption when the drug physical structure is altered like when it is crushed before swallowing or dissolved in a liquid. However, it is a very common method designed by Nigerians to mask the taste and odour of drugs by hiding it in a ball of eba or using liquids other than water such as sweet drinks to achieve this. Some of these methods may have negative consequences unknown to the user since there is no such prohibition by the drug manufacturer. Read Also:  The Possible Effects Of Swallowing Balls Of Eba With Drug (Pills) Inside Since the manufacturers have not come out to say what happens when a drug physical structure is altered or changed by certain man-made actions, we can base our conclusion on some proven theory over...

Pharmacy software Everybody wants that easy life. That is why man has designed many tools to fill that need. A good example is a computer they come in different forms and sizes.

secondary school subjects for pharmacy students To be admitted to study pharmacy in Nigeria, a student must have at least five credits pass in English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology in not more than one sitting.

Pharmacy field trip The curriculum of Pharmacy in Nigeria understand the importance of exposing students to the real world. This they achieve with the use of Industrial Training (I.T).