Satisfaction

I am about to undergo a work appraisal in 2 weeks..one of the question is job satisfaction...I can't seem to write it on paper..as they only left 2-3 lines for me to write why..

I think the biggest satisfaction must be convincing patients to take their medicines knowing that it would help them and coming back the next day asking them how they went...and seeing them smiling saying it has helped their pain and no signs of the side effects that they were so worried of ..

that was the time I persuaded a lady to have her Fentanyl patch..she didn't want to as she didn't want to be zonked out..I told her ...doctor only prescribed the lowest strength Durogesic 12..other people have Durogesic 100 ...and that the drug is released slowly over 3 days..it shouldn't be a problem..plus it would help greatly with her pain..and if it makes her zonked out then she can always take it off..would she give it a try ?

or yesterday spending time with another explaining what the doctor have done..why he has prescribed her pain killers that only lasted an hour..what's the point..she didn't have much faith...I told her he used it as a gauge to gauge her pain..and then when he knows how much he would increase her other pain killers so she won't be in pain...you could see that was when it clicked...it made sense to her..

or the man who have been refusing his antibiotics...I went up to him and told him he needs to take it as the doctors have no idea what is going on so they are covering all bases..you need to take them until the results of the tests come back and they can see what is going on,,..after that he took his antibiotics..

I think that is pharmacy...using knowledge to alleviate anxiety in patients..all they want to know is what is going on..they don't feel safe when their tablets are being switched around..or new ones starting..or why they are on the same antibiotics when doctor told them last time to only be on it for a week..they don't understand and thus the safest way is for them to exert their right...to refuse..