Depends on the situation. Some are a waste. But the stores that do like 6000+ a week are legitimately busy all night long. Go to Harbison Ave in Philly at 1am and look at the drive thru that somehow still has like 5 cars in it.
WG offering 47 per hour. In the same region but not town, I was getting ~70 with CVS 4.5 years ago doing overnights,
Such a true statement. I think now more than ever, starting out as an overnight would be insane/impossible in a retail setting (this is coming from someone who started out as an overnight as my first professional pharmacy job; only doable because I had soooo much prior experience & system know how to begin with)
I can confirm that payrate - I had an offer this year and they told me payrate is frozen and same for floater/staff
Depends. In long term care, my overnight shift is mostly spent checking the rx cycle fill which they don't have much time for during the day. It keeps the meds moving along in the fill process. Also, all of the facilities we service have become reliant on having someone here to deal with problems overnight as well. The pharmacy owner has stated that he'd never consider doing without a night shift now that he's seen what can be accomplished.
this x1000 - we have three overnight rphs- I am the lone "clinical" one - my operations partners all have tons of experience-we have almost 60 years combined experience between the three of us - but when we have fill ins (some of which are new grads) for either of us - it is scary the stories I hear - my director said he would never hire a new grad for nights because that is how sentinel events happen.
share some stories....
Different places have different thoughts - if your only job is to sit in the basement and check product, then ya - a new grad can do that. Also, are you on your own or do you have other people to bounce questions off of?
my hospital hired a new grad for overnight position last year. He only lasted less than a year and it was pretty intense for him but he made it. He was by himself and I would help him as i work until midnight, but then he was by himself. Our other night shift pharmacist attends codes and is on the floor more, but he didn't and it isn't always required for our overnight pharmacists to do that.
I know #2 and none of the rest. I manage just fine and have done overnights for about 3 years before my current position.
That's similar to us except paid 70 not 80 and differential I'd little lower.
do those issues come up at your hospital very often? Obviously different hospitals see a different population - FWIW I am at a tertiary referral hospital so we get extremely sick patients -some of the items on the list could cause sentinel events if done incorrectly
If you are concerned, I would double check them (assuming you are training him) - if you have concerns, mgmt needs to know, he needs to learn, and by you doing all of his work, he won't learn -
We have order sets in Epic so I don't have to figure most of this stuff out. Its the wonderful thing about CPOE
How much is higher?
Lucrative but that’s before taxes /deductions , insurance, retirement , etc . Chances are he or she is netting about $3k to $3.5k per pay period . Still a good check but not as much value these days considering how overworked one is in retail these days . Each year more and more tasks /endless responsibilities without corresponding pay increases .
Yea, true , just read that now . For hospital , it’s definitely good . I’m 8.5 years into retail at the red devil that starts with the letter in the name “William” and I am getting increasingly burned . I’m about to get the hell out. What used to feel like a good check now feels like “not much” with the chaos that retail is these days . 35 years old here . Started working as a pharmacist my first few shifts at age 26 just about to turn 27. Now at 35- it’s been a nice run but I’m feeling the burn more and more . Even with vacations I take all over the world , especially in the days before the pandemic , I now find even with nice, long trips, I just don’t even want to go to work . Every day is some new bs, new task ,new test . When will enough be enough ? It’s like a few techs I know have stated - these chains want to convert the pharmacy into a clinic and have the pharmacist be “almost” a PCP but without increasing pay and adding enough staff . I’m done with this and checked out . Sorry for the rant but just venting . At 8.5 years in, I won’t make it to the full decade . But hey, good run anyway because today’s new grads can’t handle retail for even 1 or 2 years .
What's your plan for your second act?
Over 10 per hour more.
