Middle of nowhere Arizona is saturated. Ask my graduating class. Some of them are commuting an hour plus outside of Tucson for per diem work.
Ah, the good ole
They were saturated in 2015. Because they are hardship areas people will always quit and the position will quickly be filled......musical chairs. However, the possibility of such an opening is dependent on variables such as “Can said pharmacists land a job in a better environment?” “Is said pharmacist ready to dump pharmacy and pursue another field?”
It’s true. Arizona is the new Florida.
You do know how small the largest city in Alaska is right? And that the other “cities” if you want to call them that most are villages, might have one hospital. And, there is a pharmacy school in Alaska, I think graduating 15 pharmacists a year, but still. Have you ever ventured up to Alaska? Lol
100% ......
It’s because there are plenty of biases when it comes to hiring practices. Usually you will hire someone you know or a friend of a friend/employee— so with the dilution of the talent pool with these diploma mill grads they all end up just hiring each other because of “networking” as opposed to merit. Obviously, quality goes down massively as a result of this.
Just left that area(the border). You can have it! Be prepared to have your car hit. That’s no joke. How long can you do BFE? Keep that **it hello new occupation. #F***pharmacy#BFEisntworthit#dumppharmacy#shiphassailed#dontbeafraidtotakerisks2getoutpharmacy#I’mdone
I guess more schooling. NP or PA. Something short. Coding camp, Health IT
I think that would be a good start towards creating “quality” pharmacists; however, it would create a logistical nightmare that would take a philosophical shift in what pharmacy schools and residency programs value and emphasize in their coursework. Medical residency placement is over 80% dependent on test scores and grades - as in you won’t stand a chance in the competitive specialities if your test scores don’t meet the cutoff - whereas pharmacy residencies look at volunteer work, leadership positions held, and work experience in addition to GPA (which is only a small part of your overall application). In addition, medical school curriculum is geared towards helping students achieve success on the step and shelf exams, while pharmacy school curriculums are “teach whatever you want so long as you check off ACPE requirements.” This is why classes such as medical drawing exist which do not prove a student’s competence in anything.
You'd be surprised. A lot of techs actually know brand/generics from working very long and also know what many common drugs are used for. But that is also because I've seen a lot of techs that are actually retired nursing assistants so they moved to a slow independent so they can make a wage while working slowly interacting with the locals. They also tend to do a lot of things they really aren't supposed to such as counseling but
You'd be surprised. A lot of techs actually know brand/generics from working very long and also know what many common drugs are used for. But that is also because I've seen a lot of techs that are actually retired nursing assistants so they moved to a slow independent so they can make a wage while working slowly interacting with the locals. They also tend to do a lot of things they really aren't supposed to such as counseling but
I doubt even some current pharmacist would know some of that. The pharmacist I worked with didn't even know NAC was used to reverse APAP overdose (He thought it was just some random OTC dietary supplement). Heck, the only drug he knew that was cleared hepatically as APAP.
I’m not talking about the part time pick-em-off-the-street techs who are just looking for anything that pays the bills, I’m talking about the career techs who quite frankly are more knowledgeable than P1-P2’s at the very minimum. I agree that techs may not understand clinical guidelines or lab testing as well as pharmacy students but the NAPLEX hardly tests on clinical questions anyways. When 50% of your points comes from math/calculations questions, 25%-30% of the questions are about random drug trivia (aka brand/generic names, indications, dosage form stuff) and another 20-25% of questions are actually based on therapeutics, I would think that it will be easy enough to score a 75% on the exam. What does everyone say in those NAPLEX study help threads? Focus on calculations (which has nothing to do with what you learn in pharmacy school).
