What about a residency? Clinical pharmacists that give talks at my school say that one year of residency is about 3-5 years of experience. Some of them say that they would not have gotten their clinical positions two years after graduating from pharmacy school if they had not done the residencies. They said they would probably have to work 6-10 years after being licensed to even be able to apply for the clinical positions. So in that way, they saved 4-8 years and went straight to the clinical position.
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What about a residency? Clinical pharmacists that give talks at my school say that one year of residency is about 3-5 years of experience. Some of them say that they would not have gotten their clinical positions two years after graduating from pharmacy school if they had not done the residencies. They said they would probably have to work 6-10 years after being licensed to even be able to apply for the clinical positions. So in that way, they saved 4-8 years and went straight to the clinical position.
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Certainly, a residency is my number one priority, but it's always wise to have a back-up plan for the undesirable possibilities.
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Crazybob... LR only made #7 on the lists of most dangerous cities. Stockton was 5, and Miami was 3... apparently you are safe compared to me and P4Sci. 😛
I would work somewhere if they had a high crime index... that really doesn't give the whole picture. Most places are relatively safe if you use common sense and mind your business.
>>> Oh yeah... if I get into pharmacy school I'm thinking about LTC pharmacy... I want to work with people with chronic illness or the elderly, but if I couldn't do that right away I'd work retail. I think if I got into a geriatrics residency it would help, but I don't really hear a lot of people say they are interested in that?
I would work somewhere if they had a high crime index... that really doesn't give the whole picture. Most places are relatively safe if you use common sense and mind your business.
>>> Oh yeah... if I get into pharmacy school I'm thinking about LTC pharmacy... I want to work with people with chronic illness or the elderly, but if I couldn't do that right away I'd work retail. I think if I got into a geriatrics residency it would help, but I don't really hear a lot of people say they are interested in that?
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A pharmacist I know did an ambulatory care residency at John Hopkins. She said she loved it... but I can guess how you feel about Baltimore. I'm sure the Bay area has a lot of good programs.
What do you do during interventions-tracking? Do you monitor the progress of people who have a drug dependency?
At UAMS, I see UAMS cops, VA cops, LR police, and sometimes AR state troopers, so I usually feel safe on campus. In other parts of Little Rock, I just use all of my horsepower to get out of there ASAP
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I don't really have an express problem with Baltimore, besides the fact that I just sold a house in California, MD (Not far from Baltimore) and don't really like the weather in that region. I have heard that there are a few V100 law firms up there, though, so I'm not too closed-minded as long as my wife's law career would also be nurtured.
OK so a clinical intervention is where a pharmacist sees a problem with a physician's drug order, such as an improper loading dose, an ADR, duplicate medication, etc, and then charts it on the MR. Then the intervention is logged, the MR is fixed, and I get to enter it into an Excel sheet for presentation monthly at the PnT meeting.
We see about 750 of them a month... and I can usually guess by the intervention code which physician is the likely culprit. They repeat their mistakes constantly no matter how many times the RPh's scold them.
It is during the interventions and the proceeding phone calls where I hear a lot of the "I went to medical school for 200 years, I know what I'm doing" stuff on speakerphone.
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Oh okay... so this is one of your duties at the hospital? Don't you also do something with smoking cessation? I wish the hospital I volunteered at allowed us to do more, but they had an incident with a volunteer right before I got there and he ruined it for everyone I guess.
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Yeah, it's one of the things we as volunteers do. And yeah, we also have gone through smoking cessation training (Couple of hospitals here in the bay do it also, it's very cool) and I am in charge of the newer volunteers since I'm finishing my CADAC (California Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor) certification and following license.
It is crappy to have a bad apple, as it were, ruin it for the rest of you guys. I am hoping that nothing like that happens here until after I'm gone, but we only have 6 volunteers and all of us are really ambitious and success-oriented, and were vetted pretty deeply before being allowed to even set foot in the pharmacy let alone get an HR badge.
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That's really cool and sounds very interesting too. I didn't know that volunteers could do so much. I have no idea what the person even did in the pharmacy, but apparently it was so bad that they didn't want to talk about it and they said it was 'really serious'. When I interviewed for the position the woman told me I had to wait two weeks because they were completely re-writing the 'job description' for the pharmacy volunteers. 🙁
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