Do you bring work home with you?

[JakeSill]

As a pharmacist, do you "bring work home" with you? Physical work. Or are you able to leave work at work? Am I going to be able to just hang out at home when I am off or will I be constantly updating/reading about new stuff?

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[gwarm01]

As a pharmacist, do you "bring work home" with you? Physical work. Or are you able to leave work at work? Am I going to be able to just hang out at home when I am off or will I be constantly updating/reading about new stuff?

Depends on where you work and what you do. I know some pharmacists involved in investigational drug research that spend way too much of their free time reading protocols. As for myself, the moment I step out of the building I am no longer a pharmacist.

 

[owlegrad]

I do some of my CEs at home, but mostly for convenience, I could pretty easily get them done at work if I wanted to (the live CEs would be tough to get done "on the clock" with my current schedule).

Otherwise I can't think of any work I bring home. You should be able to keep up to date at work I would say.

 

[ancienbon]

Nope.

 

[radio frequency]

Other than the dreams where I verify and counsel all night, it all stays at work. Those sure are exhausting nights.

 

[GoldfishPharmD]

I'm trying to figure out how to leave work at home. I just started my first job post residency so it'll be awhile. I'm use to bringing work home from residency but now that I have a real job, I'd like a good work life balance. The biggest thing I see is how to stay current with knowledge. I don't think I can do that all at work. I think unjust going to set some time aside every week to focus on reading articles and staying current.

 

[confettiflyer]

Not really, unless you count knowledge based things (reading/CE's) or reading/replying to emails occasionally.

I remember post-graduation during residency I rediscovered free time...like actual free time. Pretty liberating.

 

[rph3664]

Because of HIPAA and confidentiality issues, you wouldn't be taking work home unless you have a job where you work at home, and if you did, you would be working on a computer with a secure, dedicated server.

When I still worked in the field, I could generally get my CEs done during slow times, and in fact, such activity was encouraged. I still do CEs; I just do them at home now.

I got my old hospital job in the early 00s when there were a lot of medical programs on cable (and TLC and Discovery were still quasi-educational) and after I started working there, I just couldn't watch any program based in a hospital because I was dealing with it all day - maybe not face to face the way doctors and nurses do, but I was still dealing with it. My mother understood; she loved the show "Cops" until she became a police department secretary.

 

[owlegrad]

Because of HIPAA and confidentiality issues, you wouldn't be taking work home unless you have a job where you work at home, and if you did, you would be working on a computer with a secure, dedicated server.

Eh, I know pharmacy managers who take work home with them - the schedule, action plans, manager stuff.

 

[confettiflyer]

Eh, I know pharmacy managers who take work home with them - the schedule, action plans, manager stuff.

Yeah exactly, I wouldn't work on anything that contained patient information, so usually policy/procedure updates and whatnot... I have VPN access into our clinical systems for when I'm not at home but not on campus, but I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole from home/off the clock. I'd rather not have my name/credentials appended to something with a time stamp when I'm not working...way too much liability issues there, not to mention a potential labor law violation ticking time bomb.

I'd rather tool around Netflix at home anyway.

 

[297point1]

Every day...it comes with the territory.

 

[xiphoid2010]

Sometime/often. My pharmacy manager and I rotate on-call every other week. The extra on-call pay and decrease PRN/agency use translating into beating the budget and bigger bonuses... The money is good, corporate director and VP also let me know that they notice it, so I hope the merit will speak for itself. I'm hoping my strategy will pay off in patient outcome, financially and career wise, especially if you are still relatively young. A hint to those in a similar setting.

Soap box: I have faith in America adhering relatively close to meritocracy, it has been proven correctly so far in school and in my career, I hope it continues to do so.

 

[ChalupaBatman86]

My life consists of:

1. Working at work about 50-55 hours per week
2. Working from home
3. Feeling guilty because I am doing something/anything other than working.

So yes.

 

[radio frequency]

Sometime/often. My pharmacy manager and I rotate on-call every other week. The extra on-call pay and decrease PRN/agency use translating into beating the budget and bigger bonuses... The money is good, corporate director and VP also let me know that they notice it, so I hope the merit will speak for itself. I'm hoping my strategy will pay off in patient outcome, financially and career wise, especially if you are still relatively young. A hint to those in a similar setting.

Soap box: I have faith in America adhering relatively close to meritocracy, it has been proven correctly so far in school and in my career, I hope it continues to do so.

You never miss an opportunity to promote your merit, do you?

 

[Sunshine98]

physical work no, mental ie stress of it yes

 

[confettiflyer]

physical work no, mental ie stress of it yes

You better take care of that...keeping that up for long periods of time will harden your arteries in no time.

I mean, okay, there's a healthy amount of "how can I do better" dwelling that can go on...but anything more than that, one needs to reevaluate their job, place of employment, or other factors in life.

 

[DrSerax]

No. Just Gym and then Netflix for me. I think the important thing is to have an outlet and do something you enjoy when you get home.

 

[Sunshine98]

You better take care of that...keeping that up for long periods of time will harden your arteries in no time.

I mean, okay, there's a healthy amount of "how can I do better" dwelling that can go on...but anything more than that, one needs to reevaluate their job, place of employment, or other factors in life.

I know. Its not good. Im just in a bad situation. I myself have a good work ethic. Others around me don't. But somehow they can make excuses but there is a different set of rules for me. Everything screams that I need to get out (and yes Im looking)