Remote Data Verification

[WhateversClever]

I currently work in retail pharmacy and don't know how much longer I can survive. The pay is good but the stress, lack of respect and effect it has on my personal life can not be discounted. I recently had COVID and was forced to stay home for 10 days. It was the longest I had been off work in years and it was glorious lol. I thought, "Wow, is this what working remote from home could be like?" I started applying for random remote jobs and stumbled upon some that were described as a remote verification and data entry job with no customers and no phone calls. I know it isn't glorious work and it definitely limits your growth intellectually and otherwise in your career, but for a $10/hr pay cut I can just remote data verify? Sign me up! After talking with some recruiters and being denied for such jobs, it seems many of them are still done on some remote processing site in a certain state so it is quasi-remote. Maybe it is for HIPAA reasons and I suppose that makes sense. There aren't a lot of these jobs out there and was wondering if anyone had experiencing working in this fashion and how it compared to other pharmacy jobs they have had? Most of these remote verification jobs seem to be in Florida and Arizona. Thanks for all the input!

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[RXDOC1986]

I currently work in retail pharmacy and don't know how much longer I can survive. The pay is good but the stress, lack of respect and effect it has on my personal life can not be discounted. I recently had COVID and was forced to stay home for 10 days. It was the longest I had been off work in years and it was glorious lol. I thought, "Wow, is this what working remote from home could be like?" I started applying for random remote jobs and stumbled upon some that were described as a remote verification and data entry job with no customers and no phone calls. I know it isn't glorious work and it definitely limits your growth intellectually and otherwise in your career, but for a $10/hr pay cut I can just remote data verify? Sign me up! After talking with some recruiters and being denied for such jobs, it seems many of them are still done on some remote processing site in a certain state so it is quasi-remote. Maybe it is for HIPAA reasons and I suppose that makes sense. There aren't a lot of these jobs out there and was wondering if anyone had experiencing working in this fashion and how it compared to other pharmacy jobs they have had? Most of these remote verification jobs seem to be in Florida and Arizona. Thanks for all the input!

There are two distinct work from home pharmacist categories; 1.Remote order entry, and then 2. the 100+ variations of MTM.
I am only familiar with remote order entry for hospitals and clinics. The one biggest requirement is, many years of experience as a hospital staff pharmacist, clinical knowledge to go along with that. Multi-state licenses, or the ability to obtain them quickly. Recently, I decided to add a Nevada License, incase I wanted to retire in Las Vegas. The process took 6 months and cost close to $1000! And you will have to obtain and maintain those licenses with all the peculiarities (i.e. Nevada CE mandates 3 hrs to be live observing the BOP, or a LAW CE).
You need to be familiar with all Hospital Software, Cerner, Epic, Meditech, etc. AGAIN, hospital experience. Most large, remote order entry companies are not from "home", you go into a "call center" clock-in and work in a cubicle. The majority of the available shifts are overnight and weekends when small Hospital Pharmacies are closed.
I am a part-time Pharmacist with Encompass Rehab Hospital. There are 150+ in the US, Canada, Mexico. They are mostly open M-F 9-5, a great job if you can get it. They all use Cardinal Health Remote Pharmacy Services after hours and weekends. Cardinal is huge, thousands of R.Ph.s, working in call centers, covering different states. The pay is low $45-55, and the hours are bad, but that's when they need you.
As far as Florida/Arizona, I think you are thinking of mail order Pharmacies.
Hopefully this all made some sense.

 

[mentos]

There are two distinct work from home pharmacist categories; 1.Remote order entry, and then 2. the 100+ variations of MTM.
I am only familiar with remote order entry for hospitals and clinics. The one biggest requirement is, many years of experience as a hospital staff pharmacist, clinical knowledge to go along with that. Multi-state licenses, or the ability to obtain them quickly. Recently, I decided to add a Nevada License, incase I wanted to retire in Las Vegas. The process took 6 months and cost close to $1000! And you will have to obtain and maintain those licenses with all the peculiarities (i.e. Nevada CE mandates 3 hrs to be live observing the BOP, or a LAW CE).
You need to be familiar with all Hospital Software, Cerner, Epic, Meditech, etc. AGAIN, hospital experience. Most large, remote order entry companies are not from "home", you go into a "call center" clock-in and work in a cubicle. The majority of the available shifts are overnight and weekends when small Hospital Pharmacies are closed.
I am a part-time Pharmacist with Encompass Rehab Hospital. There are 150+ in the US, Canada, Mexico. They are mostly open M-F 9-5, a great job if you can get it. They all use Cardinal Health Remote Pharmacy Services after hours and weekends. Cardinal is huge, thousands of R.Ph.s, working in call centers, covering different states. The pay is low $45-55, and the hours are bad, but that's when they need you.
As far as Florida/Arizona, I think you are thinking of mail order Pharmacies.
Hopefully this all made some sense.

Do a lot of people retire in Las Vegas? I'd go broke if I lived there LoL.

 

[RXDOC1986]

Do a lot of people retire in Las Vegas? I'd go broke if I lived there LoL.

Oh,yes! Before Covid it was the fastest growing large metropolitan city. Nevada has no state income tax, no tax on 401K or any retirement income. Low sales tax and a lot more perks. No cold and ice, good healthcare, affordable housing. World class entertainment and food. The locals stay far away from the strip and the casinos. I personally don't gamble, poker is my vice.
The very best hookers and blow, if one is inclined!

 

[WhateversClever]

There are two distinct work from home pharmacist categories; 1.Remote order entry, and then 2. the 100+ variations of MTM.
I am only familiar with remote order entry for hospitals and clinics. The one biggest requirement is, many years of experience as a hospital staff pharmacist, clinical knowledge to go along with that. Multi-state licenses, or the ability to obtain them quickly. Recently, I decided to add a Nevada License, incase I wanted to retire in Las Vegas. The process took 6 months and cost close to $1000! And you will have to obtain and maintain those licenses with all the peculiarities (i.e. Nevada CE mandates 3 hrs to be live observing the BOP, or a LAW CE).
You need to be familiar with all Hospital Software, Cerner, Epic, Meditech, etc. AGAIN, hospital experience. Most large, remote order entry companies are not from "home", you go into a "call center" clock-in and work in a cubicle. The majority of the available shifts are overnight and weekends when small Hospital Pharmacies are closed.
I am a part-time Pharmacist with Encompass Rehab Hospital. There are 150+ in the US, Canada, Mexico. They are mostly open M-F 9-5, a great job if you can get it. They all use Cardinal Health Remote Pharmacy Services after hours and weekends. Cardinal is huge, thousands of R.Ph.s, working in call centers, covering different states. The pay is low $45-55, and the hours are bad, but that's when they need you.
As far as Florida/Arizona, I think you are thinking of mail order Pharmacies.
Hopefully this all made some sense.

Thanks for the thorough response. I have no hospital experience so I would not be an ideal candidate for that. Sometimes at my pharmacy we have Rph overlap and they just data verify. I love data entry and data verification/dose verification and wish I could do just that lol.