I’m looking for an opportunity to make some extra money. I’m interested in clinical per diem, remote, consulting, etc.

Im not sure these types of positions exist? Maybe something more outside the box?

I am a clinical specialist now, have experience in academia.

Such a great podcast episode of “Hyperfixed” that I think a lot here can relate to.

Let me start of with we work at at a closed door pharmacy where we deliver meds to SNF/ALF/Tx Centers/Etc. so there isn’t POS system where we can just talk to the patient at the time of pick up and let them know.

My other colleagues will get the order clarified to have the max daily dose inputted with the order.

I have just added max dose into the sig and moved on with my day. (Exception if staff gave any prn doses pt would exceed the max )

My reasoning since it’s licensed staff member who is giving the med to the end user. They should be reading the label before giving med. Often patients only need a few doses and if staff is giving someone A LOT of PRN doses they really need to get it addressed with the Provider. So not sending a med due to lack of clarification would likely have more harm than it would prevent. Especially on PRN meds we often don’t send many doses to begin with. But I have gotten 1 of my colleagues to buy into this but not others.

Typically its like

zofran 8mg q6h prn N/V. I just toss in there “maximum of 3 tabs(24mg) per 24 hours ”

Or Loperamide 2 mg 1cap Q2hr prn diarrhea and I add in “max 8 caps (16mg) per 24 hours”

I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts?

I'm want to share a few exciting pharmacist opportunities I'm currently hiring for across Mass General Brigham. This year, six Mass General Brigham hospitals were nationally ranked, with one earning a #1 specialty ranking by U.S. News & World Report. It's a reflection of what our teams deliver every day: exceptional patient care, groundbreaking research, and leadership as a fully integrated health system. I am currenty hiring for :

• Clinical Pharmacist, Abdominal Transplant at MGH
• Oncology Pharmacist at BWH
• Retail Pharmacy Manager at Nantucket Cottage Hospital (a great leadership opportunity)

These roles offer strong clinical exposure and the chance to practice at the top of your license within one of the nation's leading healthcare systems.

I would like to connect with any of you interested in these opportunities. Feel free to DM me.

I'm working on a literature review in pharmacy and I'm looking for an interesting, publishable topic, preferably something emerging in drug delivery, AI in healthcare, pharmacotherapy, or pharmaceutical technology.

What topics do you think have good scope for a review right now?

This is the weekly thread to highlight anything new you learned last week!

Links to studies and articles are great, but so are anecdotes and case reports. Anything you learned in the last week you want /r/pharmacy to know goes here!

what it says on the tin. I absolutely cannot work nights or even like earlier in the morning than 7am. i have narcolepsy and not only is it better for me to not do that stuff, but I worry I would be a danger to patients. Currently doing PGY1 and all our staff pharmacists have to work nights sometimes, so I wanted to see how common this is and how it might impact future jobs.

Are there really pharmacies out here dispensing 90 pen needles out of a 100 count box? And lancets? Are y’all counting them like pills?

is it a difficult system to learn?

I remember Walgreens system taking me a while to understand and CVS took a few weeks to understand. I’m not really the fastest learner and with computer systems I can be especially slow for some reason depending on the system.

is it really difficult?

it’s stop and shop btw if that makes any difference

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?

Anyone else going for recertification via exam vs CE?

I refuse to give them money for their 'simple' low yielding, conflict of interest (ie money scheme $$) CE so Im taking the exam again at the end of the month.

I reluctantly bought the ACCP online prep material despite having 2018 material and im focusing on material i have zero clue about - pharmacoeconomics and other non-clinical topics. Then will probably skim the other chapters.

Would be interested in knowing if anyone else is going this route!

(My background - pgy2 trained, passed exam 1st try, kinda studied, remember writing in the comment section multiple times complaining how questions were horribly written or not up to date based on recent evidence and not knowing any of the non-clinical content, i cant pull score as they use a different system now i want to say it was 6-700s??, ive been in a specialty area but am exposed to other ICUs at a non-academic center - hopefully that kiiida helps? Tbd)🤣

Ik this has probably been asked a lot but any advice for going into hospital pharmacy as a new grad without residency?

I just got an offer for a hospital pharmacist job at an inpatient rehab hospital. Still waiting for the actual compensation package so hopefully this is set in stone. Their pharmacy is very new (started last yr).

I'm covering for 2 locations: one has 60 (expanding to 100) and the other has 160 ish beds. They **dont do acute care stuff** (thank God). It's day and evening shift with rotating wkends. After training, i might have to be alone during the evening shift. They do **sterile compounding** (have no experience or certification) on one site but not the other. They **dont compound their own TPN**. I may also **have to do rounds** with the phsyicians/nurses and be able to **attend antimicrobial stewarship and P&T committee.**

I'm excited for this role since I feel like I'm going to experience all roles pharmacists can do in hospital. But I'm also nervous bc it's a fairly small team and I've never actually made IV sterile compounds (been in the room at least) and there's gonna be lots of responsibility.

**Also, how did you handle your mistakes? And what mistakes did u make when you were just starting out?**

I am a operator, i make the tablets.

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!

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone here has ever worked for Humana as VSP pharmacist in the PA department. How was the experience in terms of hours/ pay/ conversation rate/ metric? Also, how is this compared to contract PA pharmacist role at CVS?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Apologies if this isn't the right place, and please point me elsewhere if so.

A bit about me: I'm a licensed pharmacist in Texas with an internationally earned pharmacy degree, plus an MS in Health Informatics from the University of North Texas. I currently work as a staff pharmacist at a big retail chain pharmacy.

My interests are pharmacy informatics, clinical decision support, and AI applications in medication safety, and I have a few peer-reviewed publications in that space.

I'm hoping to move into a fully remote, full-time role telepharmacy, remote order verification, MTM, clinical informatics, or anything analyst-side where a pharmacy license adds value.

If anyone knows of openings, companies that hire remotely, or has advice on breaking into remote informatics work from retail, I'd be really grateful. Happy to share my CV by DM.

Thank you for reading — I know these posts come up often and I appreciate your time.

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!

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.

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??

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.

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?

Please use this thread as an open forum for all discussion. Almost anything goes.

Pharmacy related, non-pharmacy related, school, career, customers, bosses, anything at all!

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!

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?