Brianna Jordon

Experience

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  Adventure World Perth

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Ride Operator
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  Wizard Pharmacy

  Mar 2018 - Nov 2021

  Pharmacy Assistant

  - Working under direct pharmacist supervision, to provide assistance and support. - Dispensing prescriptions; appropriate information gathering, assessing prescription validity, using dispensing software, retrieving/labelling stock and counselling when required. Experience with Fred dispense. - Supplying and educating patients on S2/S3 products.- Preparation and organisation of webster packs - Assisting in processing sales and register transactions with great customer service.- Identifying and recruiting patients eligible for the Medscheck and Medadvisor programs. - Stock management including; Ordering, receiving, date checking and rotation of stock. Experience ordering stock through various suppliers such as API and Symbion, using FRED data entry system. - Working collaboratively as a team with pharmacy staff to keep the pharmacy well presented and organised. Show less

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  KOOKAI Australia

  Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

  Sales Assistant
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  Broome Pharmacy

  Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  Pharmacy Student Placement

  Rural pharmacy placement in which I gained experience working between 2 community pharmacies in Broome. I expanded on my knowledge as a student and learnt how to maximise my role as a future pharmacist within the rural community setting. Extra-curricular opportunities also included: - Professional development meetings at Broome regional hospital. - Weekly inter-professional discussions with a range of various other health care students. - Cultural orientation and training to practice in a culturally safe manner. Show less

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  The University of Western Australia

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2022

  Within the Master of Pharmacy course I have been enrolled in a unit called Professionalism in Action. This unit gave my team and I the opportunity to undertake a community project. My team chose to partner with Chinatown Pharmacy in Broome to educate and increase awareness of e-scripts benefits to patients in rural settings. We developed 2 resources in this project, an educational website and informative poster which displayed a QR code that linked directly to our website. The main goals of this project are to provide easy and accessible information for patients and improve script workflow within the pharmacy. At the end of our project reporting period we found that e-script use in the pharmacy increased by 12%. The partnership with Ben Lindquist, the pharmacist manager and staff of Chinatown pharmacy was a fantastic experience. I have profoundly increased my knowledge about e-scripts during my research throughout this project which has proven to help me not only in this project, but my growing career. It is important to be able to understand and optimise the use of the amazing health resources available to us in pharmacy. The project allowed me to further develop my skills in planning, risk management, time management, professionalism, communication and leadership. Overall this project was of great benefit for both the partnering pharmacy and my team in developing our skills as future pharmacists. This project covered many aspects of the PSA competency standards including: 1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 4.1. Show less As part of the Professionalism in Action unit I had to complete 2 broadening activities to provide insight into areas and skills I wish to further develop. My second broadening experience stems from my Volunteering at PCH, which has provided many valuable and rewarding experiences. Soon after I began, I realised how helpful these experiences are and how I can translate the communication and empathy skills I developed from encounters with hospital staff, patients, and parents into my early career as a pharmacist. I spend a lot of my time with the nurses in the post operative anaesthetic care unit and on the wards which has helped me gain a lot of understanding about communication. The public hospital system and nurses are something I’ve had very little experience with before my time at PCH. I have developed an understanding of how a public hospital operates like where patients go and why, the services and clinics hospitals provide and the wide variety of staff. I am constantly communicating with and assisting nurses in the unit. Although I’m not communicating with the nurses in a pharmacist capacity, I still have learnt to communicate with them in general, this experience will shape how I interact with nurses in future when I become a pharmacist. A challenge, yet very important learning curve I’ve taken from this role is the difference between empathy and sympathy. This has been a powerful self-learning journey. The patients I have encountered at PCH obviously differ quite variably from the people I see every day in the pharmacy, and it is a good reminder that you never truly know what people are going through before they walk through the door. I try to keep this perspective in mind now when dealing with patients in my own job and I believe it has made me a better pharmacy student. These experiences coincide with PSA Competency Standards: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 4.2. Show less As part of the Professionalism in Action unit I had to complete 2 broadening activities to provide insight into areas and skills I wish to further develop. The first broadening activity I completed was a multiculturalism and medication management workshop run by Dr Alex Balzarelli, an experienced general practitioner who specialises in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. In this workshop I learnt about the importance of culturally safe practice. Methods and strategies to achieve culturally safe practice were discussed, covering areas like; communication, approach and optimal medication management. I found this workshop extremely insightful and that it broadened my knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. It also provided a great supplementation to topics covered during my rural pharmacy placement in Broome. This enables me to provide a better understanding and care for a wider range of patients within the community and further develops my interest in rural pharmacy. This workshop coincides with PSA Competency Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 5.1. Show less

  • Professionalism in Action Project: E-script Awareness in Rural Communities

    Jul 2021 - Nov 2022

  • Volunteering - Interprofessional Learning

    Apr 2022 - Apr 2022

  • Multiculturalism and Medication Management

    Sept 2021 - Sept 2021
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  Priceline

  Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

  Pharmacy Student

  - Working under direct pharmacist supervision, to provide assistance and support. - Dispensing prescriptions; appropriate information gathering, assessing prescription validity, using dispensing software, retrieving/labelling stock and counselling when required. Experience with Fred dispense. - Supplying and educating patients on S2/S3 products.- Assisting in processing sales and register transactions with great customer service.- Identifying and recruiting patients eligible for the Medscheck and Medadvisor programs. - Stock management including; Ordering, receiving, date checking and rotation of stock. Experience ordering stock through various suppliers such as API and Symbion, using FRED data entry system. - Working collaboratively as a team with pharmacy staff to keep the pharmacy well presented and organised. Show less

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  Chinatown Pharmacy Broome

  Jan 2023 - now

  Intern Pharmacist