As a senior in high school‚ I had the choice to opt out of senior activities and enroll into a pharmacy technician degree program. I can honestly say I was very enthusiastic to be receiving my high school diploma and pharmacy technician degree in the same year. My interest for medication would come at a very young age‚ ( preferably around the age of 3 and 4 ). After growing up witnessing my great grandmother take various of medications for an array of health problems‚ it captivated my mind to want
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Alumni‚ I was brought up knowing that Florida A & M is the number one University in the world. When my parents found out I wanted to be a pharmacist‚ they told me Florida A & M had a great pharmacy program. I then did my own research on the pharmacy program and found out that Florida A & M had one of the best pharmacy programs in the world. That is what brought me to Florida A & M University. The reason why I want to be a pharmacist is; I have a lot of elderly people in my family. The elderly people
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Institutional Pharmacy Setting 1 Institutional Pharmacy Setting Axia College of University of Phoenix Leonalda Cruz Institutional Pharmacy Setting 2 An institutional pharmacy provides an array of services for residents of nursing homes‚ hospitals‚ hospice care‚ and other long term facilities. In this particular setting‚ the pharmacist will take responsibility for the medication that the patients’ need and ensures that patients’ medications are appropriate‚ effective‚ safe‚ and they are
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Threat of New Entry There are many companies manufacturing and selling office products at an international level. New entrants can find it easy to enter and establish their position in the market by basing their strategy on low cost. The market offers growth opportunities to new entrants as well indicating low entry barriers for the firms wanting to enter into the area of office products. Therefore it can be stated that Staples Inc is operating in an industry where
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There is continuing interest in the study of the forces that impact on an organisation‚ particularly those that can be harnessed to provide competitive advantage. The ideas and models which emerged during the period from 1979 to the mid-1980s (Porter‚ 1998) were based on the idea that competitive advantage came from the ability to earn a return on investment that was better than the average for the industry sector (Thurlby‚ 1998). As Porter’s 5 Forces analysis deals with factors outside an industry
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INTRODUCTION Carnival has enjoyed an extended run as Big Kahuna of the cruise world. The assets of its parent company‚ Carnival Corporation‚ are enormous and growing: In addition to its own fleet of 20 ships‚ Carnival Corp. holds full ownership of Cunard‚ Seabourn‚ Costa‚ Windstar‚ and Holland America Line -- all told‚ more than 50% of the North American cruise industry. And‚ in April 2003‚ Carnival beat out Royal Caribbean to acquire P&O Princess‚ adding yet another major cruise brand to its cruise
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Power (one of Porter’s Five Forces) Buyer Power Definition Porter’s Five Forces of buyer bargaining power refers to the pressure consumers can exert on businesses to get them to provide higher quality products‚ better customer service‚ and lower prices. When analyzing the bargaining power of buyers‚ the industry analysis is being conducted from the perspective of the seller. According to Porter’s 5 forces industry analysis framework‚ buyer power is one of the forces that shape the competitive structure
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Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. Although this is a simple definition‚ when we think about how we may communicate the subject becomes a lot more complex. There are various categories of communication and more than one may occur at any time. The different categories of communication are spoken or verbal communication‚ face-to-face‚ telephone‚ radio or television and other media. Non-verbal communication: body language‚ gestures‚ how we dress
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Like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz‚ my choice to pursue pharmacy was not laid out so colorfully before me. From the age of five‚ I was so sure a doctor was what I wanted to be. My plans changed‚ however‚ when I was taken off the yellow brick road and led in a new direction. I was placed in a pharmacy tech class the first day of my senior year of high school instead of the clinical rotation class I signed up for because that class was full. Rather than loathe this whole experience‚ I decided to make
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was able to lower their cost was the company that would lead the way. However‚ giving up quality is not a viable option. Lower quality automobiles lead to the down turn in the American automobile market share. In my Porter’s 5 Forces analysis I will identify key competitive forces in the automobile industry. Risk of Entry by Potential Competitors The risk of entry by potential competitors in the automobile industry is weak because a substantial amount of capital is needed to begin an automobile
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