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Medication Adherence Reflection

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Medication Adherence Reflective Writing
Shaymous Juhnke
As a P1 student in SDSU’s pharmacy program one of the activities required to prepare us for real world pharmacy practice would be to take part in a medication adherence simulation. The goal of this activity is to put ourselves in the patients shoes to get an idea about how patients adhere to their regimens in the real world. Through this activity I have learned that it is not always easy to take medications at the right times.
For this assignment I was required to take warfarin 2 mg tabs by mouth on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, and on all other days two tablets at 4 PM. The other drug I needed to take was metoprolol tartrate 25 mg tablets twice daily with food. During this assignment …show more content…

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