Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Clinical pharmacist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital with great interest in healthcare and making change in a positive manner to those around me.
Clinical rotations to build competence surrounding patient admissions, medication reconciliation and chart reviews. Took part in assisting with the Monash Pharmacy Careers Expo Booth Rotations - Surg (Trauma), Emergency Department, Neurology, Mental Health, Cardiology, Renal, Royal Park Campus Rehab and Aged Care
Student support for 2024 Pharmacy Forecast Australia - Minute writing during expert topic discussion - Data analysis and summarisation - Referencing in accordance to SHPA forecast referencing syle - Reviewing and final editing AdPha 2024 Honour Roll: https://adpha.au/membership/honours-awards/honour-roll
SHPA Summer Research Student at Royal Melbourne Hospital - Use of REDCap for survey creation and data collation - Data analysis with pivot tools - Scientific report writing - project presentation to members of the RMH pharmacy department Partook in the collation and analysis of 3 projects: 1. "Who is agent other" - looking at the use of label "other" and it's frequency within the EMR system due to its implication on clinicians decision making. Following analysis, recommendations were also made for any recurrent reasons as to why "other" was used by clinicians. 2. Vancomycin AUC monitoring - looking at how vancomycin was being used in the ICU and the frequency of different post-prophylactic cultures to determine which patient population that implementation of AUC monitoring was required for. Reason behind this was to determine patient groups to trial DoseMe program that utilised a Bayesian model for AUC estimations. This project was presented as a poster for the Medicines Management 2024 Conference hosted in Adelaide (https://mm2024.shpa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/137-FITZPATRICK-Catherine.pdf) 3. Transition of Gentamicin prophylaxis to Amikacin - to audit frequency of Gentamicin and Amikacin use following a transition of prophylactic guidelines due to increase in gentamicin resistant cultures post 48 hour culture results 05/06/2024 - Conducted a presentation to Monash students sharing my experiences surrounding this placement.
Proficient dispensing and patient profile management via MyScript Taking in scripts and patient counselling of S2, S3, S4 and S8 medications via English and Mandarin Dispensary and floor stock management Management of daily earnings turnover and banking
Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS) Leader for first-semester unit PHR1021 working under the faculty of Access Inclusion and Success. A paid position, hired by Monash University, to run weekly peer-assisted study sessions for classes of between 20 to 40 students. I developed content-related questions and answered students' questions regarding the topics that first years learnt weekly. Additionally, I prepared session plans on unit material, provided study advice, and motivated students to achieve their desired results.