pharmacist help please

[rs0514]

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How satisfied are you with your job(besides the pay)? What is an usual day at work like? How much time do you have off to do whatever you like to do? Is everyday different? how difficult is the job? 😕

 

[VCU07]

How satisfied are you with your job(besides the pay)? What is an usual day at work like? How much time do you have off to do whatever you like to do? Is everyday different? how difficult is the job? 😕

Partly. 7 days-40hrs. Yes. Not very. Do a search.

 

[xiphoid2010]

How satisfied are you with your job(besides the pay)? What is an usual day at work like? How much time do you have off to do whatever you like to do? Is everyday different? how difficult is the job? 😕

Mostly, love my job, wish there is more financial stability. Being a small hospital in a bad economy, the risk of being bought is always there.

It's salaried, pays is above market average. Time on paper is 8-4:30, by my predecessor usually worked 9-3. 🙄 I put in about 10 hours because I love ID.

Don't have a house yet, my wife and son are still in across the country, so I rather work more instead of being bored at home and wasting time watching TV. 😀

Some things stay the same every day, like doing Vanc/AG and f/u labs. Some change, like getting asked about how to handle ESBLs, pan resistant pseudomonas/acinetobacters, stenotrophomonas, etc that just grew out.

The job isn't as difficult as I thought. Did focus on ID during PYG-1, but I don't have a proper PGY-2. So I was a little worried at first, but it turns out that most of the MDs here knew even less about ID. Now I've built rapport with the ID doc, the job is pretty smooth.

*** edit, one thing I don't like: being on-call. Being the only clinical pharmacist here, I'm ALWAYS on-call for unless I'm on vacation. Some weeks no call at all, some times I get called 2-3 nights in a roll.

 

[jasonkido]

Mostly, love my job, wish there is more financial stability. Being a small hospital in a bad economy, the risk of being bought is always there.

It's salaried, pays is above market average. Time on paper is 8-4:30, by my predecessor usually worked 9-3. 🙄 I put in about 10 hours because I love ID.

Don't have a house yet, my wife and son are still in across the country, so I rather work more instead of being bored at home and wasting time watching TV. 😀

Some things stay the same every day, like doing Vanc/AG and f/u labs. Some change, like getting asked about how to handle ESBLs, pan resistant pseudomonas/acinetobacters, stenotrophomonas, etc that just grew out.

The job isn't as difficult as I thought. Did focus on ID during PYG-1, but I don't have a proper PGY-2. So I was a little worried at first, but it turns out that most of the MDs here knew even less about ID. Now I've built rapport with the ID doc, the job is pretty smooth.

*** edit, one thing I don't like: being on-call. Being the only clinical pharmacist here, I'm ALWAYS on-call for unless I'm on vacation. Some weeks no call at all, some times I get called 2-3 nights in a roll.

I always wondered how ID Pharmacist worked on calls. So, you're the oncall pharmacist for the whole pharmacy as well even though you are the ID pharmacist after hours??

Sounds like you have a good work environment. I love my co-workers and even though I don't have much of a clinical background I feel like I have built a rapport with most of the nurses because I deal with the same ones day in and day out. They sometimes ask for me directly if they have a medical question instead of asking the more experienced rphs.

 

[xiphoid2010]

I always wondered how ID Pharmacist worked on calls. So, you're the oncall pharmacist for the whole pharmacy as well even though you are the ID pharmacist after hours??

Sounds like you have a good work environment. I love my co-workers and even though I don't have much of a clinical background I feel like I have built a rapport with most of the nurses because I deal with the same ones day in and day out. They sometimes ask for me directly if they have a medical question instead of asking the more experienced rphs.

Yeah, it's a small hospital and I'm the only clinical pharmacist. My main job is to handle ID, but all kinds of drug questions comes my way. Anticoag and opioid conversion sticks out. Of course there's all the antibiotics, the pharmacist on duty wasn't comfortable dosing Amikacin, so I had to talk her the dosing and order levels. My favorite is when vanc trough comes back 15.2, where the lab reference is 10-15, I get a panicky nurse calling me at 2 AM. 🙁 Just like you, I work with the same nurses day in and day out. They are great people, and we get a long great. Just wish they would know a little more about drugs, especially after the answers have been given several times in the past already.