| |
Pharmacy Technician Graduates
|
|
Chris Garcia
It didn’t take Chris long to make a good impression. One of his FRCC clinical experiences was at Porter Hospital in Denver. Once he earned his certificate from FRCC, Porter Hospital hired him on staff – and he proceeded to earn Employee of the Month honors in his first month on the job. Chris wants to become a pharmacist, and he thought becoming a pharmacy technician was the easiest path to explore the field. So upon graduation from Denver North in 2007, he entered FRCC’s program. “All the studying of disease types and drug types really helped me,” he says. Today, he is the narcotic technician at Porter. When his work day is over, he comes back to FRCC to take his prerequisites for admission to a school of pharmacy. “I really like the field,” he says. “I still plan to become a pharmacist.”
|
|
Sammy Ihunwaeze
Sammy was in the third year of medical school in his native Nigeria when his name came up in the lottery for a visa to come to the United States. After establishing residency in Colorado, where he has extended family, he enrolled in the Pharmacy Technician program at FRCC. He has long wanted to combine medicine with pharmacy. After earning his certificate from FRCC, he worked for Pharmerica, a pharmacy that provides medications for patients in long-term-care facilities, as he continued his studies for entrance to a school of pharmacy. And, in 2010, Sammy was accepted and enrolled in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wyoming. “FRCC was a very great success for me,” Sammy says. “It was my first schooling in the United States. It was a new environment, and I was able to succeed. FRCC helped me to get where I am today.”
|
|
Brittany Richardson
Brittany had a general idea that a career in health care would be interesting, so she came to FRCC right from Arvada High School. “The tuition was wonderful,” she says, “and the program is accredited. That was definitely a bonus. The classes are convenient in the evening so you can have a job during the day. Linda (Calvert, program director) is great at placing you in internships, and she has a high employment-placement rate, too.” That’s for sure. Brittany had an internship at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, and she was hired on staff after the first week of her internship. She loves the job and her career in a field with a future. “Job security is a wonderful thing,” she says.
|