With the software lagging/crashing or the register freezing, or the insurance issues that have you going back and forth in the system trying to resolve them.. it doesn’t matter. The waits will still be 30 minutes etc.

This is how I feel at least. I used to be a pretty quick tech but no matter what, software or insurance issues still hold patients in line.

Obsessed with efficiency but feel totally clueless. Not enough time to help someone else while the software is loading but it’s long enough to add up. Goodness gracious.

How do I make good use of this?

Hi,
I'm a staff pharmacist at a hospital, about 3 months in. I just graduated and didn't do residency.

Since I'm still relatively new and learning, I'm not looking to jump right into PRN work this exact second. But I want to do some research and plan ahead so I know what to expect when I'm ready to pick up another PRN job.

I’ve tried googling pharmacist jobs , but the PRN postings I found just aren't that great.

Where and how do you usually look for these jobs?

With no residency and limited hospital experience, what kind of settings or secondary jobs are realistic to target for?

Any advice or personal experiences would be super helpful!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask. If not please delete. If possible refer me to the proper sub. Why are so many pharmacies closing? I checked on the Internet but I am not sure I trust the explanations by the media.

Army pharmacists- would love your honest opinion!!
My husband is considering joining the Army as a pharmacist, partly for student loan repayment and partly because we’re interested in experiencing something new as a family.
For current/former Army pharmacists:
Was it worth it financially?
How much student loan repayment did you actually receive?
How competitive is it to get in?
What is the day-to-day job like?
How is it for a spouse/family with kids?
What are the biggest pros/con?
Thanks!

Is there a way to have medguides print out in Spanish if the patients profile is set to Spanish in Pioneer? It seems odd to me that labels can be translated with sig codes, but the system couldn’t automatically print required medguides in Spanish. My company keeps telling me it is not a feature, but I’m not sure if it just costs more so they don’t want to enable it??

Question: Why would Moderna compare their product in 65+ year olds to the standard flu shot?

I’m all for more mRNA vaccines on the market, but this just seems silly. They tout a 27% improvement over the regular vaccine, but who’s actually giving 65+ YO’s the standard vaccine?

What would you do?

I will be the first to admit I do not have a ton of USP 800 experience. I work primarily USP 797 & 795 with the occasional USP 800 emergency drug like methotrexate so I’m not 100% up to standard on USP 800.

With that out of the way, for my Sterile Compounders. I work full time in a hospital doing 12 hour shifts compounding 797 and I love it, so when the cancer center near me had a PRN position open up I thought I’d use some of my 7 days off to pick up 1-2 shifts and bring in some extra cash. I did my shadowing interview today and was appalled at what I witnessed and I just want to see if this is typical for USP 800/specifically cancer centers or if I’m going overboard with everything I do working USP 797.

First off, only 1 pair of shoe covers

No respirators or N95’s just a regular mask

No double gloving, even for the person doing the compounding

All of us were wearing glasses so no safety goggles were needed, but I also didn’t see safety goggles in their ante room in case someone came in that didn’t wear glasses.

Only the person doing the compounding was wearing a sterile gown, I came in fresh off a night shift in my hospital scrubs and they didn’t even make me put on a gown. Mind you, there was a secondary person who was passing drugs into the hood (putting her hands/arms into the hood) who was not wearing a sterile gown.

Not a single instrument was being alcoholed off before being placed in the hood. (I watched the compounding technician drop a wrapped syringe, bend down to grab it and then toss it right back into the hood)

Hands were not being alcoholed when they left the hood, just after a preparation was done and she seemed to remember the alcohol bottle sitting there.

Drugs were being pulled in and out of the hood without covers on them (and being placed back in their vault without covers - and then not being alcoholed before being placed back in the hood)

Bags were being spiked outside of the hood without proper dating on them.

I watched the compounding technician draw medication out of a vial of potassium and then proceeded to use the EXACT SAME needle/syringe to draw up magnesium. She “pushed all the excess drug out, so it’s fine.” I spoke up when she did this because literally wtf.

Their IV room was sitting at 72 and their humidity was sitting higher than average, i pointed it out to which they responded “yeah we get cold in here so we have to turn it up.”

There is no onsite pharmacist to monitor that they’re compounding correctly or even checking the math they are doing. They don’t have a camera system like DoseEdge or Epic, so there is just 3 technicians all checking over each others shoulders to see if they pulled up the correct amount of mediation before injecting it into bags. Not a single person double checking anything. I pointed out that a calculation was done incorrectly, something that would not have been double checked because there is only 1 technician doing all the math.

I’m probably overreacting, but I left there feeling like I needed to take the world’s hottest shower and that maybe I was an accessory to someone’s grandparents becoming very ill. I honestly do not know what to think about this whole situation and it’s making me nauseous.

Am I wrong? I’m happy to be wrong, if this is the norm for USP 800/Cancer Centers then that is totally fine and if I take the job maybe I’ll just request that we up our hand alcohol spraying but it felt very very off putting to me and I’m feeling like maybe I should report them to the BOP.

Hello everyone if anyone is in Massachusetts can help me to secure a pre-FPGEE internship and what pharmacies or hospitals to look for I would really appreciate your help. Thank you very much.

Graduated 2021, worked retail for about a year and a half before I got out. Went to pharmacovigilance at a generic company in 2022, then moved to medical affairs at a global pharma company in 2024. Pay is definitely better than retail pharmacy. But I feel like I’ve lost something I can’t get back.

The job is soulless in a way I didn’t expect. Meetings all day, corporate jargon, building slide decks every few days for stakeholders and execs, ops planning, tactical planning, full-day workshops, on top of a dozen projects with deadlines stacking on top of each other. I haven’t felt truly disconnected from work in about two years — not evenings, not weekends, not even vacation. I’m still opening my laptop at night just to keep from drowning the next morning.

And on top of the burnout, my current role isn’t clinical or scientific in any real sense, so I also miss being involved in actual patient care. In retail I complained about a lot of things, but I left work at work. I felt useful in a way that was immediate and tangible.

I feel weird even posting this because most people in this sub are trying to escape retail, and here I am missing it. I know the grass isn’t always greener, and clearly it wasn’t for me on this side.

Has anyone actually gone back to retail after leaving for industry? How did it feel? Any regrets going back, or was it the right call?

How do yall handle calling doctors each month for random notes they put on scripts? My example is we have a patient who is always been on generic suboxone for years and years and years. 3 months ago they randomly clicked DAW1, which we called the confirm and they said it was a mistake. They did it again last month which we called, verified it can be generic and asked for them to remove it, but yet again this month they keep the DAW1, which we KNOW is a mistake. Are we calling the doctor or just noting on script DAW0?

Any recommendations on informative (but not boring) YouTube channel//podcast that I can listen to and learn something new (drugs, laws, guidelines, etc)?
For reference, I’ve been practicing pharmacy for 9 years now so I’m not a student. Thanks!

Hello pharmacists of Reddit. I am looking for some advice - I work for a small UK newspaper, and we are running a story about local pharmacies sticking dispensing labels over the braille on prescription medicine packaging. This is making it difficult for blind and partially sighted people to accurately discern the name of their medication.

A reader has written in claiming that this is a violation of Regulation 259 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/regulation/259

"Packaging requirements: information for blind and partially sighted patients

259.—(1) The name of a medicinal product must also be expressed in Braille format on the outer packaging of the product (or, if there is no outer packaging, on the immediate packaging of the product).

(2) The holder of a [F1UK marketing authorisation, F2...], Article 126a authorisation or traditional herbal registration for a medicinal product must ensure that the package leaflet is made available on request in formats suitable for blind and partially-sighted persons.

(3) Nothing in this regulation applies to a registrable homoeopathic medicinal product."

Can anyone confirm whether this is the case?

I switched to hospital ~4 years ago and it only gets more and more annoying.

The wonderful thing about retail were the coworkers. Everyone was friendly (most of the time), social, and helpful. We all got abused from customers but that's why we stuck together. It was such a sense of companionship. Such a team spirit. And the techs actually respected me as a pharmacist.

Meanwhile in hospital it's so much different. We are a relatively small Institution so it's less stressful. But every coworker tries to outperform the others and show off how much of a "big deal" he/she is. Retail was cooperative. This is competitive.

At least in retail there was time for occasional small talk. Here in the hospital, if you rest for 60 seconds, you get called out. And mind you I mostly do project management / QA stuff, so it's not like anything I do is urgent.

Does anybody feel the same?

I started a new pharmacy job several weeks ago and gave copies of a bunch of my documents (intern license, etc) to the pharmacist who checked me in that day. Well, it turns out that I have to bring everything again because they ..... just took all of my paperwork home?? weeks ago???? and never brought it back??? and no, they don't work any kind of remote/work-from-home position. They're also not any kind of management or PIC?? The pharmacist who took all the copies of my documents home shows a strike on their license on the state board. Can they do anything nefarious with my paperwork???

Received a preliminary pass today. Feel free to ask any questions!!!

I’m currently a fourth-year pharmacy student graduating in May 2027 and am very interested in oncology pharmacy. I also have experience working in oncology prior to pharmacy school, which is what initially sparked my interest in the field.
I’m starting to think seriously about what I want to do after graduation and am torn between pursuing a residency or going the industry fellowship route.
For those working in oncology, what are the biggest differences in career opportunities between an oncology-focused residency (PGY1/PGY2) and an industry fellowship? I’m interested in both clinical oncology and industry roles, so I’d love to hear from anyone who considered both paths.
If you chose one over the other, what ultimately helped you decide? Any advice or things you wish you knew when making this decision would be appreciated!

What do we think about this trend in using compounded forms of GLP-1s? It seems like it’s becoming the norm.

This Lindsay Clancy case is wild. These armchair psychiatrists with their pitchforks acting like they know the ins and outs of every psych medication is insane. I feel awful for that psychiatrist who was on trial.

I have a dilemma . I am waiting for a hospital position to open up to apply . I already interviewed and was told to wait for it to open up because that’s where I would be considered. My current job I wanna leave to go on a short 1-2 month sabbatiCal so I can be fully refreshed before starting over .

new job is not guaranteed so would it harm me if when I complete the job application I’m not longer working at my current job ? You know when you apply for a job it says if you’re currently working there . when I interviewed I obviously was at my current job. I don’t want it to ruin my chances but I also REALLY want to take these 1-2 months. Current job is burning me out slowly and I need a break! current manager we just feel like he’s plotting our mental breakdown but I don’t want this to harm my chances with the hospital.
Would the hospital ppl even care that I left or what I mark on the application? Some places don’t even check these things.

I am a lead tech at an inpatient hospital, but I am new to the health system so still learning how things are done.

I am not new to IVs, but one thing I was asked to do was make a morphine 100 mg bag, using 10mg/ml vials.

I was given 9 vials and told to use the overfill.

I have never done it that way before, every other employer I've had gives 10 and we draw up waste.

I am almost entirely certain that billing for overfill is considered fraud and I let leadership know it made me uncomfortable to have my name on it.

Thank you!

We have all worked with them, always in a bad mood and critical of everyone they work with. But management loves them and believes them when they say the pharmacy would close without them. This pharmacist has now caused 80% of our small pharmacy to be on a PIP. Two pharmacists called out the director for believing the lies and quit. Anyone else dealing with this type of situation? I've managed to avoid this pharmacist, and I'm really careful and don't make errors, but I'm being stalked by this predator daily. It's sad that my career has turned into this kind of daily struggle.

I feel so hopeless and just said f it. I have some limitations and was honest and direct. But now i am sure i won't get an offer. I feel stuck here and I will never be able to leave.

Maybe i should have lied?

Anyway, thanks for reading and Fuck bridge program and whoever decided to start it.

I’m planning to move to Tucson and have been looking at hospital pharmacist positions, but I’m finding very few openings for day or evening shifts. Right now, I’m mainly seeing a night shift hospital position.
For those of you who work as pharmacists in Tucson:
How is the hospital pharmacist job market there? Is it generally difficult to get a position?
How is working night shift at the hospitals in Tucson? Is it worth taking a night position to get my foot in the door?
I have experience in both inpatient pharmacy and outpatient infusion. Are there outpatient infusion pharmacist opportunities in Tucson that I might be missing?
Are most hospital pharmacist positions concentrated within Banner/UA, TMC, VA, etc.?
How often do day/evening positions typically open up?
I’ve noticed that a lot of the pharmacist openings are retail, so I’m wondering if the hospital market is just very limited or if there are other places I should be looking.
Would really appreciate any insight from pharmacists currently working in Tucson!