How many pharmacists work at your hospital?

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So I work at a roughly 400 bed hospital. We have 9 pharmacists this includes staffing and clinical. 2 ONLY staff the rest of us rotate staffing duties with clinical.

Just want to hear what other places number of pharmacist look like.

Our duties include the usual clinical duties/rounding.

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wow, that's 9 including evening, weekend and graveyard? That seems tough. I think we have about 23-24 on the inpatient side, plus a bunch of outpatient pharmacists and pharmacists staffing am care clinics. I was one of 5 new pharmacists hired so we could do thorough discharge med rec/counseling for every patient as well as process all medicine discharge orders, so that takes a lot of time, as do ER discharge meds in the evening/night. The 23-24 number is the amount of positions, but we have high turnover, so there's lots of double coverage.
 
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That doesn't sound too far off from mine. Around 200 beds, 3 full timers, 3 part timers, a couple of PRN'ers who seldom work. No graveyard, rotating on-call for graveyard.
Official "clinical" stuff is only done 2 days a week, rotated among people who work those days, but in reality most of the routine clinical stuff is done by the "staff" pharmacists.
 
That doesn't sound too far off from mine. Around 200 beds, 3 full timers, 3 part timers, a couple of PRN'ers who seldom work. No graveyard, rotating on-call for graveyard.
Official "clinical" stuff is only done 2 days a week, rotated among people who work those days, but in reality most of the routine clinical stuff is done by the "staff" pharmacists.

Do you guys contract out for graveyard??

We used to be 400 beds buy the census is closer to 250 these days. I think there are roughly 20 pharmacists on staff.

4 graveyard,
1 NICU clinical specialist, 2 ED clinical specialists, 1 ICU clinical specialist, then everyone else filling in 6 other positions every day...

We have 9 separate pharmacist shifts to fill every day.
 
Do you guys contract out for graveyard??

We used to be 400 beds buy the census is closer to 250 these days. I think there are roughly 20 pharmacists on staff.

4 graveyard (2 per night, 4 in the position),
1 NICU clinical specialist, 2 ED clinical specialists, 1 ICU clinical specialist, then everyone else filling in 6 other positions every day...

We have 9 separate pharmacist shifts to fill every day.

Sorry, tried to clarify the graveyard position and replied!
 
Approx 250 beds, 17 pharmacists on staff + 1 PRN lady (retiree). We have a decentralized pharmacy structure so we usually have 4-5 pharmacists working per day, 2-3 will be up on the med floors, the others in the main pharmacy. We have 2 pharmacists that rotate in and out of our employee pharmacy.
 
i work at a smaller hospital branch part time and try to make up the hours at the bigger hospital. The smaller hospital about 150 beds has 4 staff pharmacists FT, 3 staff pharmacists PT, one DOP. The larger hospital must have at least 26 pharmacists (FT, PT, PRN, clinical specialists, DOP,). They have like 4 overnight pharmacists all together....its crazy.
 
major academic center here. about 35 day shift hybrids (our staffers are decentralized and do clinical activities for their respective patients) as well as about 15 clin specs. Roughly 20 2nd shifters, and 3 overnighters
 
Do you guys contract out for graveyard?? We used to be 400 beds buy the census is closer to 250 these days. I think there are roughly 20 pharmacists on staff.

No, the staff pharmacists take turns rotating being on-call. There usually isn't too much going on at nights, almost everything possible is in an Omnicell, and pharmacists have the ability to verify orders from home. Still, the being on-call does get old, and I believe contributes to turnover.
 
No, the staff pharmacists take turns rotating being on-call. There usually isn't too much going on at nights, almost everything possible is in an Omnicell, and pharmacists have the ability to verify orders from home. Still, the being on-call does get old, and I believe contributes to turnover.

Wow, I never realized a 200 bed hospital would just have on-call pharmacy for overnights. I thought this was just a concept in tiny, rural hospitals.

Our call is not bad at all, but if there's anything I could change about my job, it would be to do away with my call hours.
 
700 bed teaching hospital - about 80 pharmacists on staff but that includes everyone - director, clinical coordinator, residency director, drug information, IT (epic), handful of part timers, etc. Pharmacy is decentralized and we have a hybrid clinical/staffing model. Relatively consistent turnover due to people getting experience and moving to more desirable areas.
 
Wow, I never realized a 200 bed hospital would just have on-call pharmacy for overnights. I thought this was just a concept in tiny, rural hospitals.
Our call is not bad at all, but if there's anything I could change about my job, it would be to do away with my call hours.

Well, we aren't exactly rural, but a short drive from bigger hospitals. We never fill anywhere near all of beds. I think the last time we even started to come close, was during the swine flu scare, where anyone and everyone who felt slightly off was coming in. A good portion of our admissions is post-op and skilled nursing. We do have critical care and a rockin' emergency room, but anything too out of the normal is transferred, especially if peds, is transferred out.
 
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