r/pharmacy

Whats was your experience like? what kind of background did you come from (ie inpatient; outpatient, etc)?

As a pharmacist, which drug classes do you think new graduates confuse the most?

I teach pharmacy students, and during NAPLEX prep the same topics keep coming up: antibiotics, anticoagulants, oncology, cardiology, and calculations.

I am curious whether practicing pharmacists see the same thing once new grads start working, or if there are other drug classes that seem to cause the most confusion.

Curious if anyone here is using AI in their day-to-day work. If so, what platforms do you like? I still rely on Lexicomp, UpToDate, and Micromedex for solid drug and disease info, but I’m wondering if there are any AI tools you use for quick answers or to help guide your thinking.

Anyone ever done this? I recently changed jobs to relocate closer to family and now my dream job just posted in the same city. Different companies.

Hi!! I Work as an ambulatory care pharmacist in a weight loss center. I explain priming of GLP-1 pens to patients and they are always confused on what priming is. I tell them it’s to make sure their pen works and get the air bubbles out. But still get some patients who are confused even after I show them with the demo pen.

How do you explain priming to patients?

Thank you!!!

Asking for a friend. New grad Rph in AZ with student loan payments as expensive as a mortgage. Any recommendations on how much to take out for 401k and taxes? She’s married, in her 30’s, with 2 elementary aged children, if that matters.

I recently applied to a pharmacist position at capsule pharmacy and wanted to know how to prepare for the preassessment if anyone had any insight.

I’m an RN at a hospital and a recently discharged patient called the floor saying their pharmacy doesn’t have Bentyl script in oral syrup form. I called the pharmacy and spoke with the pharmacist, asked her to change the script to a capsule if they are out of the oral syrup. This pharmacist adamantly refused and told me the doctor has to resend the correct script.

I understand that this is probably technically the law but the amount of time this took to get ahold of the attending physician to resend the script as a capsule was just silly. We (everyone in healthcare) waste so much time/energy on things like this.

No hate toward the pharmacist, I just thought it was funny because it’s for Bentyl…. C’mon man 😆

What are your thoughts on this??

Work at a small community hospital with very limited growth or clinical opportunities.

The upside is that it’s *extremely* chill. I’m literally yawning from lack of work. No metrics, performance pressure, micromanagement, write ups for tardiness.. no liability concern because really sick patients that need critical care are eventually transferred out (we don’t have the infrastructure/resources to properly care for these patients).

The downside is the low pay (~130k). Context: live in a VHCOL area (nyc) & other institutions pay a lot more. Another down side: working 1-2 weekends a month and an occasional night shift. As mentioned above not much clinical opportunities (we only have 2-3 pharmacists whose formerly trained and/or have board certification out of the whole dept)

Would you stay, or start studying for boards to pivot into a clinical role with no weekends? I’m in my mid-30s, so if I’m going to pivot, it feels like now or never. I do care about income growth and maintaining my clinical edge (maybe even romanticize it a bit), but I can also feel myself getting a little too comfortable in this laid-back environment. If I leave, they won’t take me back (it’s a thing here).

I have no intention of having kids yet, and luckily my partner makes 600k+ annually so we are comfortable, but not rich by any means. All my friends have gotten into leadership, progressed their career, have advanced degrees & I feel like I am not doing enough.

Thoughts?