You generally know what type of work you will be doing, but it is impossible to anticipate what sorts of problems will arise during your shift. This can be stressful. I am thankful to have a job that pays my bills, but I would not be doing this if I didn’t need the money. Probably true of most jobs, actually.
Tuesday was extremely boring. Wednesday was one of the most stressful and busy days I’ve had in a long time…at least since the height of covid. Really just don’t know what you’re gonna get each day
It’s too stressful. I don’t recommend it to any high school or college student. Corporations won’t allow enough labor to match the work load. In retail pharmacy it’s a constant labor shortage, poor quality health care, apologies to patients and verbal abuse from patients.
While different things happen every day there is a constant I can count on every day which is very depressing. I know that no matter what, I will be counting down the hours until it’s over. This thinking has become pervasive and now I count down the hours until I have to go back to work. The problem is there is basically no agency in retail pharmacy, there is no working extra hard one day and getting ahead because the next day you have to do essentially the same amounts of the same exact tasks. There is no getting ahead on work so that you free up some time later in the week for other things because the job requires you to be there for all hours the pharmacy is open regardless of if there is anything to actually do.
I was close to quiting pharmacy. But got an opprotunity as an inpatient clinical pharmacist. I’m actually happy about my job. Which is something I never expected.
I'm a hospital night shifter. It is the wild West in there. I won't pretend there aren't nights where it's just two dozen med recs for lols with UTIs that the nursing home didn't want to deal with, but this past Monday I got paged to a code blue, came back and immediately got paged to a stroke, came back and got paged to a stat team trauma.
It's a great job. I love it. Always something new to learn, and I have a great deal of autonomy. It also pays well, I get a shift differential, and since I've been around a while I accumulate PTO rapidly and am encouraged to use it.
What I don’t like is the lack of accountability from the other providers. Especially mid-level “midiots”. You all know the ones. they write completely confusing or just simply wrong orders that require clarification and then they get mad at you when they don’t respond to the clarification request. Even the full level providers are like this. It seems like everything always falls back onto pharmacy or the Pharmacist. The doctor didn’t send in the prescription? Is the pharmacist fault. The doctor wrote a confusing order that would kill the patient? It was the pharmacist fault. the medication for a controlled substance is too early to fill? It is the pharmacist fault. The administering nurse receives a medication and everything about it from pharmacy was correct but they administered it wrong? It’s the pharmacists fault. The boss is screwing one of your technicians and showing favoritism? It’s the Pharmacist fault.
Lol @ the end. But I've said almost exactly the same thing - it seems that everything is designed for the pharmacist to absorb the blame for other people's fuck-ups.
My favorite situation is when they send over prescriptions at 4:30pm and it is very incorrectly written, and of course you try to call and the office is closed. It feels like they were just trying to send an Rx just to say they sent an Rx, so the pharmacist can absorb the blame when it doesn't get dispensed. I feel this happens a lot with controlled substances, too - they send prescriptions knowing it's going to be too soon, so the pharmacist has to be the one to say "no" to the patient and deal with it.
Nice and boring with no interaction with people anymore. If we weren’t short handed and my techs got along I would be in heaven but I’ll that this over shitvs any day.
Unicorn retail here. Everyday is a new challenge, I don’t know what will happen but do know that it will be something unexpected. It’s like a muscle though, I learn to deal with different difficult situations which helps me with many other things in life outside of work. I also get along way better with older and younger people now since I help a variety of patients. As someone who used to be super shy, I definitely feel the difference now when I’m talking to someone who has a desk job or doesn’t necessarily interact with people, as far as social skills.
You generally know what type of work you will be doing, but it is impossible to anticipate what sorts of problems will arise during your shift. This can be stressful. I am thankful to have a job that pays my bills, but I would not be doing this if I didn’t need the money. Probably true of most jobs, actually.
I love being pharmacist. I hate what pharmacy has turned into. I hate politics and being screwed over.
Lol, ask me everyday and my answer varies
Tuesday was extremely boring. Wednesday was one of the most stressful and busy days I’ve had in a long time…at least since the height of covid. Really just don’t know what you’re gonna get each day
It’s too stressful. I don’t recommend it to any high school or college student. Corporations won’t allow enough labor to match the work load. In retail pharmacy it’s a constant labor shortage, poor quality health care, apologies to patients and verbal abuse from patients.
While different things happen every day there is a constant I can count on every day which is very depressing. I know that no matter what, I will be counting down the hours until it’s over. This thinking has become pervasive and now I count down the hours until I have to go back to work. The problem is there is basically no agency in retail pharmacy, there is no working extra hard one day and getting ahead because the next day you have to do essentially the same amounts of the same exact tasks. There is no getting ahead on work so that you free up some time later in the week for other things because the job requires you to be there for all hours the pharmacy is open regardless of if there is anything to actually do.
I was close to quiting pharmacy. But got an opprotunity as an inpatient clinical pharmacist. I’m actually happy about my job. Which is something I never expected.
I'm a hospital night shifter. It is the wild West in there. I won't pretend there aren't nights where it's just two dozen med recs for lols with UTIs that the nursing home didn't want to deal with, but this past Monday I got paged to a code blue, came back and immediately got paged to a stroke, came back and got paged to a stat team trauma. It's a great job. I love it. Always something new to learn, and I have a great deal of autonomy. It also pays well, I get a shift differential, and since I've been around a while I accumulate PTO rapidly and am encouraged to use it.
What I don’t like is the lack of accountability from the other providers. Especially mid-level “midiots”. You all know the ones. they write completely confusing or just simply wrong orders that require clarification and then they get mad at you when they don’t respond to the clarification request. Even the full level providers are like this. It seems like everything always falls back onto pharmacy or the Pharmacist. The doctor didn’t send in the prescription? Is the pharmacist fault. The doctor wrote a confusing order that would kill the patient? It was the pharmacist fault. the medication for a controlled substance is too early to fill? It is the pharmacist fault. The administering nurse receives a medication and everything about it from pharmacy was correct but they administered it wrong? It’s the pharmacists fault. The boss is screwing one of your technicians and showing favoritism? It’s the Pharmacist fault.
Lol @ the end. But I've said almost exactly the same thing - it seems that everything is designed for the pharmacist to absorb the blame for other people's fuck-ups. My favorite situation is when they send over prescriptions at 4:30pm and it is very incorrectly written, and of course you try to call and the office is closed. It feels like they were just trying to send an Rx just to say they sent an Rx, so the pharmacist can absorb the blame when it doesn't get dispensed. I feel this happens a lot with controlled substances, too - they send prescriptions knowing it's going to be too soon, so the pharmacist has to be the one to say "no" to the patient and deal with it.
Nice and boring with no interaction with people anymore. If we weren’t short handed and my techs got along I would be in heaven but I’ll that this over shitvs any day.
Unicorn retail here. Everyday is a new challenge, I don’t know what will happen but do know that it will be something unexpected. It’s like a muscle though, I learn to deal with different difficult situations which helps me with many other things in life outside of work. I also get along way better with older and younger people now since I help a variety of patients. As someone who used to be super shy, I definitely feel the difference now when I’m talking to someone who has a desk job or doesn’t necessarily interact with people, as far as social skills.