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13 Jan 2010 09:54 amI've been working in a long term care pharmacy about 45 minutes north of here. I like the closed-door nature of the facility: no customers/patients to deal with. I don't have to answer the phone or wrangle insurance. This place has separate people for each job; my job is taking filled orders (what they call prescriptions in hospital and LTC parlance) and verifying that the right quantity and drug are in the card. (They pack pills into unit-dose cards, per patient, with their names on them.) I also check the directions to see if they're logical. (I've only had one that made me go "bwuh?" so far.)
I probably verify on the order of 750-1000 orders in my 6-hour shift. Monday when I went in, I had four full baskets and a stack of cards about 4' long by 1' high (about 250 cards.) I got through about 3/4 of that mess before 2, when people started getting back from lunch and adding to my stacks. It was non-stop from 1 until about 5:30, when I had a 10-minute respite.
Yesterday wasn't nearly as bad. I only had 3 baskets to check, and I had a good bit of breathing time.
My agency person didn't mention that this place only pays $42/hr (yeah, I know, for relative values of "only") so she's doing some magic to get me closer to the $50 I got at the other place. I'm sure I've mentioned that the paycheck was a key motivator in my decision to become a pharmacist. (I think mechanisms of action of medications and pathophysiology are pretty cool, too. Especially infectious diseases.)
Today's my early day: 11-5 instead of 1-7, because I have tai chi tonight at 6. I'm thinking of getting in a hair early so I can leave a hair before 5, because I have to take 15-501, which is horrid for traffic at that time of day and I was later than I would have liked last week. (I pulled into the parking lot at 6:01, and I had to change into my sweats after I got there. But I was right behind Violet, so I didn't feel too bad.)
So I'm going to post this, check on Isis (who just squawked at me from the stairwell), put on some shoes, and get going.
I probably verify on the order of 750-1000 orders in my 6-hour shift. Monday when I went in, I had four full baskets and a stack of cards about 4' long by 1' high (about 250 cards.) I got through about 3/4 of that mess before 2, when people started getting back from lunch and adding to my stacks. It was non-stop from 1 until about 5:30, when I had a 10-minute respite.
Yesterday wasn't nearly as bad. I only had 3 baskets to check, and I had a good bit of breathing time.
My agency person didn't mention that this place only pays $42/hr (yeah, I know, for relative values of "only") so she's doing some magic to get me closer to the $50 I got at the other place. I'm sure I've mentioned that the paycheck was a key motivator in my decision to become a pharmacist. (I think mechanisms of action of medications and pathophysiology are pretty cool, too. Especially infectious diseases.)
Today's my early day: 11-5 instead of 1-7, because I have tai chi tonight at 6. I'm thinking of getting in a hair early so I can leave a hair before 5, because I have to take 15-501, which is horrid for traffic at that time of day and I was later than I would have liked last week. (I pulled into the parking lot at 6:01, and I had to change into my sweats after I got there. But I was right behind Violet, so I didn't feel too bad.)
So I'm going to post this, check on Isis (who just squawked at me from the stairwell), put on some shoes, and get going.
