APPEs at Wind River Wyoming

Living in Wyoming- Info and Tips for Future Students Student housing is provided by the IHS clinic and located in Ft. Washakie (pronounced WAH-sha-key) The house contains three rooms with two twin beds each, one full bath, and a shared kitchen and common space. When Lauren, Autumn, and I were there, our roommates included two students from the University of Tennessee pharmacy school and one optometry student. They graciously gave us the larger room so we could move and fit a third bed to stay together.                                                  *Note: There is no dishwasher- be a good roommate and wash your dishes in a timely manner! The house is about a 30 minute drive from the Arapahoe Clinic (main clinic), 45 minutes from the Riverton Clinic, and 10 minutes from the Ethete (E-tha-te) Clinic (which we never went to). In Lander (abo...

Starting week 3 of our rotation, we got some new pharmacy students at the clinic on rotation! We spent the first few days helping orient them to the clinic, our typical daily tasks, and the clinic's technology. We also showed them where the candy drawer is!   We continued working on our medication reconciliation project that focuses on consolidating patient profiles and making sure the providers in the clinic have the patient's current medications accurately listed in the EHR.  We had lots of opportunity to counsel patients on their prescriptions- we particularly counseled patients with diabetes about their insulin and blood sugar monitoring!  During week three I had the opportunity to present a formal drug information question response to the Pediatric Committee consisting of doctors, nurse practitioners, and nurses. My response was to a question about the evidence for alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen in the pediatric population.  We also traveled to the Rive...

We took Friday off this week and went to Yellowstone. We left after rotation on Thursday at 4 o'clock and made it to our hotel in Cody, Wyoming around 7 o'clock. Cody is about an hour from the east entrance to Yellowstone. We had dinner at Trailhead Bar that night and then went to bed early to prepare for a full day at Yellowstone.  We left the hotel on Friday around 10 o'clock. Our plan for the day was to see the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and then drive the scenic highway called Beartooth Pass, but one of the roads was closed and the new route would have added 4 hours to the drive. After seeing the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, we headed towards Old Faithful. We stopped at Mud Volcano Thermal Area on the way there. This area has a ton of muddy hot springs and smells like sulphur, so we didn't hang around for long. We then drove about an hour to Grand Prismatic Spring and walked on the boardwalks built around the spring. Then we drove to a trailhead right down ...