APPE frustrations
I’m currently on my second week of my second APPE rotation. I am with an ICU pharmacist in a large hospital. I have never had experience with using Epic prior to this, so getting use to the software took around 3-4 days.
I’m feeling pretty good with navigating epic now, but Vanco dosing is incredibly frustrating for me. I don’t even know what to begin to do when reviewing a patient‘s vanco order on epic. Even the bayesian software seems kind of hard to interpret.
In school, I understood Vanco dosing pretty well and we had to work out our Vanco Dosing math by hand. But I feel like school didn’t prepare me for this hospital rotation.
My Preceptor is a decent enough teacher, but most of the time, he walks me through what I need to do on the Vanco dosing. “Click here, do this, do that, click here”. But this isn’t helping me to understand it. I don’t want to keep telling him I don’t understand something after he explains it, because I feel like it will create frustration for him, it will waste time (he is busy working up other patients), and it will make me seem inept.
just venting