Moncrief Army Health Clinic processes much than 1,500 prescriptions during a mean time astatine the Fort Jackson, South Carolina-based facility. For many, that would look similar an exceptional number, but for Jonathan McFall, it’s each successful a day’s work.
McFall, a civilian worker astatine Moncrief, serves arsenic the clinic’s adjunct pharmacy chief. He is nary alien to moving with subject members, arsenic helium besides doubles arsenic a skipper successful the U.S. Army Reserves. He precocious departed Fort Jackson to service arsenic a pharmacy advisor during a impermanent deployment to Southwest Asia.
He said helium is looking guardant to the deployment, arsenic it allows him to execute akin duties, but successful a antithetic environment.
“There volition beryllium akin pharmacy duties arsenic acold arsenic checking and verification, but there’ll besides beryllium consulting duties arsenic acold arsenic pharmacy inspections astatine immoderate of the little tier, Role 1 and Role 2 units that don’t person a nonstop pharmacist there, who volition beryllium liable for inspecting the medicine absorption facet of the medicine and controlled substances that spell retired of those Role 1 and Role 2 units,” McFall explained.
He said determination is simply a quality betwixt the 2 sides of pharmacy work.
“(In the subject role) determination is much higher-level medication that we woody with, arsenic acold arsenic pharmacy things. A batch of the filling and immoderate of that worldly that you woody with connected the civilian broadside gets delegated down to our 68Qs, our pharmacy techs connected the enlisted side,” McFall said.
“But immoderate it has similarities,” helium added. “You’re inactive doing medicine absorption expiration dates, making definite that radical are doing the close thing, specified arsenic signing disconnected connected (paperwork) erstwhile they person medications, oregon signing disconnected connected our log sheets that we’re receiving things oregon closing retired controlled areas.”
McFall said helium expects that determination volition beryllium challenges associated with being deployed, but helium looks guardant to serving abroad.
“Obviously with things down scope you person a small much condensed timeline. You’re often up against a timeclock due to the fact that things are much clip sensitive. You person to marque definite things are done precisely connected clip truthful that everything other tin cascade its mode down and marque it to the extremity user, whether it beryllium to your nonstop bid oregon who ever your nonstop commandant reports to,” helium pointed out.
McFall, a Rock Hill autochthonal who earned his bachelor’s grade successful pharmacology from Clemson University, and aboriginal his doctorate from the University of South Carolina, said joining the U.S. Army Reserve was thing helium ever wanted to do.
“I considered it close retired of pharmacy school, and I spoke with the Navy initially. It benignant of got close down to graduation clip and it evidently takes a agelong clip to process into the subject betwixt each the wellness checks and paperwork and I benignant of got close up against the partition with graduation approaching. I ran retired of clip with that and went close into retail,” helium explained.
“I came to Moncrief arsenic a civilian successful 2017 and it made consciousness to maine relook astatine joining the military. About six months aft my accomplishment here, I received my committee into the U.S. Army Reserves,” helium added.
McFall said helium is arrogant of his subject work and being capable to correspond South Carolina and the United States during his deployment.
“It decidedly makes maine proud,” helium said. “It’s an accidental successful this time and property that comes arsenic a uncommon accidental to deploy arsenic a pharmacist due to the fact that there’s not a immense accidental for america overseas. If we tin spell and correspond pharmacy and marque definite we’re doing the close thing, we’re evidently showing that we’re inactive a valued commodity wrong the Army.”
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