Ashley Shira’s Blog

Day Four…Our First Day of Work

Wow, I’m finally caught up!! This morning was our first morning of work at Manna Mission Hospital. We arrived at 8 am for a short devotion and then we went to work. I was told I would be working in the pharmacy the first week and Kim was assigned to the lab.  Next week we will switch.  They want us to become familiar with the drugs and labs available to us before we start seeing patients.  The hospital was very busy today and Kim unfortunately had to do a lot of watching.  I was put to work right away.  They must have seen me and my OCD ways coming from a mile away because they had me go through boxes of medications and supplies that people send them for their rural clinics.  I wrote down the contents of all the boxes and reorganized them so they would know where everything was.  We did half today and we will do the other half tomorrow.  The hospital operates on shifts and the first shift is from 8am-2pm so we were surprised to be done so early.  However, I have some homework assignments to work on.  I am going to type up the lists of the contents of the boxes for rural clinics and the pharmacist asked me if I would take the pamphlets from the antimalarial medications they use here and write simple prescribing instructions for the American doctors that come here to work.  I will be a busy girl for the rest of the afternoon.  It’s weird not to be able to go back to the house and type these things up.  I have grown so accustomed to having my laptop with me all the time that I feel sort of lost without it. Well I better get busy!! I love everyone and miss you very much! I can receive text messages on my cell phone for free so feel free to shoot me a text message to say hello.  I should also be able to check my email during the week and I hope to get some pictures on here tomorrow.  Hope all is well back home!!