PHARMACISTS are being urged to look for positives in challenging situations to drive themselves forward, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) National President, Dr Fei Sim said.
Speaking on the latest episode of Raven's Recruitment's Your Pharmacy Career podcast, Sim noted that pharmacists have faced turbulent experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I am very aware of how burnt out our profession is at the moment," she said.
"We've been in COVID for the past two-and-a-half years and not only have we been impacted by COVID ourselves, we have had to put forward a very strong front and continue to practise to service the community."
While Sim acknowledged that the issues pharmacists have had to tackle have been difficult, she stressed people should not hope to avoid challenges in their careers.
"What we should be working towards is to be able to go through and overcome challenges," she said.
"What separates someone who is successful from someone who may not be, is the ability to see the positive and opportunity in every challenging situation.
"I've been quite lucky in my whole career that I've had very supportive mentors around me, who helped guide me and shared their wisdom and experience.
"One of my mentors said to me, 'Fei, in every challenging situation there is always a silver lining - there is always something positive to come out of it'.
"I reflected on that, and thought that is very true, because sometimes when we're in a very challenging situation - right now we might feel like we're so burnt out we don't know where we are in our career - there is always something good that can come out of it.
"If we can have the ability to see and extract the positives in every situation then that's going to make us better, because that's going to help us advance in our career."
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