Some background info:
I worked Walmart as a pharmacy tech for 2 1/2 years and when I was accepted into pharmacy school I left Walmart and went to work as an intern at a hospital. When the Rx manager interviewed me at the hospital she was telling me all sorts of great experiences I will have as a "clinical" intern, unfortunately those clinical experiences never happened and all I did was refill pyxis machines and make IVs all day long. Fast forward in time, I'm now working at a new hospital where I'm doing medication discharge counseling and medication histories, you could argue that this is "clinical" but even though this is also getting boring/repetitive and I've only been here for ~5 months.
My BEST experience was when I did my IPPE rotation at an independent pharmacy this past summer. Even though I was entering into my third year, my preceptor was allowing me to be "acting" pharmacist. I was performing all sorts of tasks from compounding creams, ointments, gels, capsules, etc. to verifying prescriptions, counseling all patients (including newly diabetics on their glucometers), giving vaccinations (Tdap, rabies, influenza), as well as INVEGA shots/Tb skin tests, and MUCH more. The patients highly expressed their gratitude for our services which made me felt wonderful.
At my current hospital, I shadowed a bunch of clinical pharmacists, from ambulatory care to infectious diseases to oncology to pain, etc. During those hours I was bored to death. I was constantly yawning, falling asleep, and wasn't curious one bit about anything they were doing. The inpatient pharmacists just verified orders all day long- sitting at least 8-12 hours (depending on shifts) per day.
The funny thing about all of this is I had more desire waking up and going to "work" at my IPPE rotation (independent pharmacy) even though I wasn't even getting paid at all vs. my actual job.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Just curious.
I worked Walmart as a pharmacy tech for 2 1/2 years and when I was accepted into pharmacy school I left Walmart and went to work as an intern at a hospital. When the Rx manager interviewed me at the hospital she was telling me all sorts of great experiences I will have as a "clinical" intern, unfortunately those clinical experiences never happened and all I did was refill pyxis machines and make IVs all day long. Fast forward in time, I'm now working at a new hospital where I'm doing medication discharge counseling and medication histories, you could argue that this is "clinical" but even though this is also getting boring/repetitive and I've only been here for ~5 months.
My BEST experience was when I did my IPPE rotation at an independent pharmacy this past summer. Even though I was entering into my third year, my preceptor was allowing me to be "acting" pharmacist. I was performing all sorts of tasks from compounding creams, ointments, gels, capsules, etc. to verifying prescriptions, counseling all patients (including newly diabetics on their glucometers), giving vaccinations (Tdap, rabies, influenza), as well as INVEGA shots/Tb skin tests, and MUCH more. The patients highly expressed their gratitude for our services which made me felt wonderful.
At my current hospital, I shadowed a bunch of clinical pharmacists, from ambulatory care to infectious diseases to oncology to pain, etc. During those hours I was bored to death. I was constantly yawning, falling asleep, and wasn't curious one bit about anything they were doing. The inpatient pharmacists just verified orders all day long- sitting at least 8-12 hours (depending on shifts) per day.
The funny thing about all of this is I had more desire waking up and going to "work" at my IPPE rotation (independent pharmacy) even though I wasn't even getting paid at all vs. my actual job.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Just curious.