Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey ya'll!

I just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a very wonderful Thankgiving. I hope it was as wonderful and full of friends and family as mine was!

See you all soon!

Katie

Rotation Four: Working with Little Ones

Hey there!

I just finished my fourth block of the year which means.... I am halfway done with my last year of pharmacy school! This is such a huge moment but I can't help but feel super nostalgic. I have had such an amazing last three and a half years and I'm not ready to leave quite yet!

This rotation was one I was really excited about. This block I went to work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at my local hospital. For those of you who don't know was a NICU is, it is a high intensity care unit that is designed to treat infants who need special care after birth. This may be because of premature birth or because of a disease or birth defect. The NICU I was able to work with was a level 3 unit which means that they handled most patients there and only sent the most critical patients to a higher level program.

I had the best time during this rotation. Not only was I able to work with an amazing preceptor but I was able to see things I had never even heard of before. Since neonatology is such a specialized field, most programs don't delve into it in detail. In the hospital I was able to really focus on the unique pharmacokinetics and disease states the are special to this population. I was also able to use my literature evaluation skills to help develop care plans for patients where the best course of action was unknown.

Here is a (TINY!) diaper from one of my favorite little patients:

Katie