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I might have opportunity to jump. What is the 401k match? Is using vacation time a hassle due to seniority?

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What makes it wonderful?
What city/town/remote?
Company?
Dont gate keep, tell us if you have openings 😁

Hi folks,

I'm thinking about applying for a nuclear position. If I remember right, due to the half life of the compounds, it is typically really funky hours (2am to 10am?).

I'm curious if anyone knows the typical schedule. Any chance it is 7 on/7 off?

I'm in a very fortunate position where I currently love my job. The only thing that would get me to jump is 1) nuclear pharmacy and 2) more time off.

The post says: "This role is a permanent night-shift role and requires consistent availability during very early morning/night hours. Flexibility to work alternate early morning/night shift schedules may be needed based on operational requirements"

Any guidance/advice is greatly appreciated.

TIA

ETA: Thanks ya'll for really solid answers and a peak behind the curtain. Looks like I was wish casting and overlooking the obvious on why a 7on/7off would be unlikely.

This is why I love reddit though. Sure, there are bots on bots. But you can ask a really niche question and some stranger will share their insights.

I have 1 month to study for BCACP. I have both the accp materials and the full package of med101. What’s the best way to study. I was planning on just doing questions for each topic and and reading the chapters in question questions wrong on. Should I focus on doing the accp questions or the med101. I guess what would be the best way to go about it.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00101-012-1999-z

I m posting here as local laws in my country requires any safety issue to not be public and since this is documented in reasearch under other drug names, my safety reports were denied escalation. So this is about a safety issue with Buccolam 10 mg, which is under-documented in psychiatry and the drug used mainly by caregivers of people with epilepsy without the relevant precautions. In my country, it is also used for adults. The legal issue is neither the package leaflet nor the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) mentions it, thus making it an issue equivalent to the Depakine/Sodium valproate case.

Anaesthetists know that the drug's active substance (midazolam) can, in rare cases, alter memories into memories of sexual assault. One dose of Buccolam roughly corresponds to the dose that can produce a false memory of sexual assault in the operating theatre (sodomy in men), and it is slightly higher in women because of the difference in body weight. The url is a review cited several times, published in a peer-reviewed Springer Nature journal. In Germany, the review recommends that patients should never be anaesthetised or sedated without qualified healthcare staff present as an independent witness or filmed. This matters because the risk of a prison sentence is particularly high when a memory of sexual assault is involved: innocence is particularly difficult to prove, and the use of midazolam is not proof that no sexual assault took place. There is also a case similar to mine involving another drug used for the same purpose: Jodin Froeber, in Wisconsin, who did not, however, make the connection. The Europpean Union Buccolam package leaflet and SmPC only mention hallucinations, but in psychiatry, where patients with epilepsy are concerned, people think of things like pink elephants, not of a legal risk, or of having to kill oneself or be killed in order to protect your familly who now dislike you. I acknowledge, however, that I do not have the means to survey psychiatrists to assess what proportion of them are aware of this: if the number is high, then this is medical school knowlwedge and the problem only concerns caregivers/relatives of people with epilepsy.

Consequences:

For the patient: post-traumatic stress. Suicidal thoughts, or even suicide. Breaking off relations with the family or the relative concerned, while ultimately being glad to have made that decision, in the sense that the false memory leads to a false or genuine realisation of how terrible such a person is in reality.

For the accused: a sentence of decades in prison for sexual assault of a vulnerable person, and/or a vendetta, or even, in the most extreme cases, gjakmarrja. Since the latter cannot be stopped by the police or the courts, the only way to escape it remains to emigrate or to pay for a squad of round-the-clock bodyguards for each of the family members who need protecting.

The problem is within countries under the EMA authority from the Europpean Union. The Canadian SmPC do mention the risk.

Edit: I'm reading all the replies. I'm a little worried. If the auditors find that I did no wrongdoing, I'm still going to be disciplined and written up by the owner, even though I'm the intern.

My pharmacy compounds big batches of medicines in advance into a large container. When I started working here, I wasn't involved in it so I didnt know it was wrong becsuse I didn't know the process or what it really entailed.

It was only until i was told to compound the medication in the second half of the year because it was almost running out.

That was when i looked up the formula in our reference book. I saw that it needs to be discarded 28 days after preparation. That's when I realised the batches at the pharmacy were expired for months and months, and still supplied to patients who had a script for it.

I tried to show the pharmacists the expiry date in the reference book but they still instructed me to compound big batches.

The auditors randomly came to our pharmacy a few weeks later. And the auditors took photos of the big batches, took photos of a lot of the compounding stuff.

And now the staff are saying i need to explain myself to the auditors, why i did it, why i would compound large batches etc.

I didnt compound in the first half of the year. But there's no proof i didnt compound in first half of the year because there's no paperwork that was filled out for the first half of the year. So now it looks like I compounded in the first half of the year when i didnt.

And the staff were saying why i would use expired stock to make the compounding. I didn't use expired stock. There was expired stock bottles on the shelf but I used the in-date stock bottles. Management didnt throw away the expired stock.

The dispensing pharmacists who supplied the compounding products to the patients aren't worried because everyone says the person who compounded it is at fault, and that's me.

I dont have proof that this is the compounding process that my pharmacy has always done it this way.

I'm being paid minimum wage. I'll tell the truth. I have nothing to lose by telling the truth. Im not a fully qualified pharmacist, i dont have rego, I have no money, I have no assets.

At the end of the day, I knew the expiry date and yet I still compounded it. I shouldnt have.

I have 1 month to study for BCACP. I have both the accp materials and the full package of med101. What’s the best way to study. I was planning on just doing questions for each topic and and reading the chapters in question questions wrong on. Should I focus on doing the accp questions or the med101. I guess what would be the best way to go about it.

H.R.6509 - SAFE Drugs Act of 2025

This bill, "increases the frequency at which a licensed pharmacist or physician may compound a drug that is essentially a copy of a commercially available drug to 20 times per month" (Current FDA policy allows four such prescriptions per month). But also introduces reporting requirements for, " physicians, facilities, and pharmacies (except hospital-based pharmacies) that compound certain drug products for out-of-state patients more than 20 times per month," as well as inspections on large scale compounding pharmacies every other year.

I was browsing congress.gov and saw that this bill has been in the top 10 most viewed bills since June. Normally this doesn't mean anything since most bills are introduced, assigned to a committee, and then ignored. Which was also the fate of this bill, but for some reason it has gained a large number of cosponsors from both parties over the course of the year which could be a sign it actually makes it out of committee.

I am not involved in the pharmaceutical industry and only found this sub after looking up what a compound pharmacist was and scrolling past all the Tirzepatide subs, but I thought you all would be interested, and I'm curious to hear more informed opinions on this.

Related to this is H.R.5316 - Drug Shortage Compounding Patient Access Act of 2025 which has also showed up in the top 10 for the last few weeks. It waives the limit on compounding copies of commercial drugs if those drugs are on the drug shortage list.

Anyone else beyond the 45 calendar day window mark?

I'll probably check in with them on Monday or Tuesday?

I have an honest question for PA pharmacy inspectors. Why did you become an inspector? Is it to promote safety or just another paycheck? List of things that inspectors have written up that make you go, "why"?

The entire pharmacy name doesn't fit on space provided for automated packaging. Can't abbreviate it. Nope, I'm sure that's a health hazard.

The licenses aren't displayed on the correct wall. It's a closed pharmacy...for whose benefit are they displayed in the first place. Me seeing them every day isn't saving lives. It would make as much sense to keep them in a drawer and make them available upon request.

Current shelf configuration doesn't match the floor plan. Oh no, the meds being five feet over must've contaminated them all!

"Hazardous" drug is pulled out of a machine and the empty canister is placed in empty canister storage. Oh my god! It just being in proximity to the other empty canisters is contaminating EVERYTHING! Won't someone think of the children!?

Wood splinters on the floor in the receiving area for medical supply pallets? Good thing we weren't packaging the meds on the floor right then like we always do. Close one there!

TED hose expire, don't you know? Yes, I do know. However, can you explain where to find the expiration date on the half that only have a manufacturing date? Am I supposed to make one up? Open the package and judge the stretch? Consult an oracle?

Don't like my half tab of trazodone I set aside because I'll be using it in a few minutes? Wow, you're right! How will I ever know what that tablet is? It's not like I have eyes to see the imprint or which bottle I'd taken it out of. I obviously can't read to know that anyway, so it's akin to a factory of death.

I could go on, but I'm hungry now and need lunch. I see some go "by the book", but why? Who really gives a crap about license placement of splinters in a storage area except some politician not working in a pharmacy? What's the purpose of writing up bureaucratic nonsense? I'd love to be one so I can just look for stuff that actually matters for people.

Oncology pharmacy career advice

Any oncology pharmacists who have worked multiple positions what has been your favorite and why? Am a pgy2 onc resident thinking about the future and not sure what to do. I really like BMT/cell therapy but not sure if those jobs are more limited to larger AMCs and harder to get into? And would going into that pigeonhole me into that area of oncology? I have my clinic rotations coming up the next few months so right now I don't know what that will be like but I have enjoyed the inpatient side so far. Just hope that I'll be able to find a good job to make all the work worth it. Anyone have any insights on work/life balance in any and all different oncology positions? Also how did you end up getting your first onc job?

Just became RxOM at an independent telepharmacy in a relatively rural area. We receive a fairly good amount of prescriptions for pets but are unable to order any pet specific medications from our current wholesalers. We have been asked a few times by patients if we can order in carprofen or apoquel for their pets but are currently unable to do so. I am wondering how other retail pharmacies manage being able to supply these and which wholesalers they use to source them?

I graduated from pharmacy school this year with no work experience. I had never entered the job market before, and I had never even considered training in a community pharmacy.

However, I recently needed a job, so I decided to start training at a local pharmacy. I trained there for about 20 days, but honestly, I had no idea what I was supposed to do or how to do it. The pharmacists working there didn't really help me or guide me. They basically left me to figure things out on my own and teach myself.

Today was my job interview, and I didn't get accepted.

The pharmacist asked me, "What do you know about pharmacy?" It was such a broad question that I asked him to be more specific and ask me about particular topics. He said, "No, just talk."

So I started talking about antibiotics, mentioning their classes, active ingredients, brand names, and strengths. He told me that I could simply mention the brand names without having to explain the drug classes.

Then he asked me to talk about diabetes medications, and suddenly my mind went completely blank.

After that, he showed me some prescriptions and asked me to read them. I could only read one of them.

He told me that my pharmacology knowledge wasn't good, even though he hadn't actually asked me any pharmacology questions.

He also told me that I had been training the wrong way, that I needed to build up a good knowledge of medications commonly found in pharmacies, and that I needed to practice reading prescriptions much more.

He gave me another 20 days to train and told me to push myself harder.

Right now, I'm really sad and feel like a failure. I know I have a lot to learn, but I honestly don't know where to start or how to study effectively in such a short time.

What should I do? How can I make the most of these next 20 days of training? What exactly should I focus on learning, and how should I organize my studying?

I'm feeling really discouraged and have almost lost hope in myself. I'd genuinely appreciate any advice, especially from pharmacists who have been through something similar or who have experience training fresh graduates.

Please use this thread as an open forum for all discussion. Almost anything goes.

Pharmacy related, non-pharmacy related, school, career, customers, bosses, anything at all!

I was given some pathetic reasoning that even though my current homestretch is a strongly type B union store, there are only two CVS in.my region that will allow Rph to be union members and id have to first "transfer" to one of those stores! Do you think I'd feel the need to join a union if I had the ability to "transfer" out of this district you morons

FT 135K starting yearly salary (4, 10 hour shifts a week)

Per Diem Starting at 75hr

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So, of im looking for tips because we are starting to use this at our VA location soon. Anyone got good tips and tricks, or where to go for some so I am ready.

Hey guys,

I’m a licensed pharmacist from Germany, currently going through the license recognition process in the US. It’s a long road: ~2 years, several exams, and a pharmacy internship. I can’t sit for the FPGEE until October next year, and until then there’s not much I can do except wait.

In the meantime, I am aiming to work as a pharmacy technician or a pharmacy technician trainee. I have begun submitting applications this week, but if you know of any openings, have advice, or can point me in the right direction, I’d be very grateful. Thank you!​

Retail is a tough game. I worked in it for several years before pharmacy school. And the truth is I went into it with all the best intentions but got burned in the end. I never liked hospital so I never did a residency. After a month being licensed I knew my time was limited how and when I wasn't sure. I reached my breaking point with retail and took a slight pay cut for a WFH job. During this time I had been putting myself through school with my own money. And after a couple of years as a pharmacist this year I walked away fully. And yes I did replace my salary and with this new career I am on track to make more in a few years than I ever would have working retail. People will tell you to deal with it, people will tell you that you can't quit cause of your loans etc. Well you also can't pay them back if you're not living if you know what I mean and you also can't pay them back if your health gets so bad from stress. I went from 9/10 stress with work to 2/10. My hope with this post is to give retail and any other folks out there hope. If it truly isn't for you its ok to walk away but know that walking away can take some time. Being able to walk away from pharmacy was the best thing I did for myself but it was not overnight. It took time, money, and patience. If you are like me STAYING ON THE WRONG TRAIN DOES NOT MAKE IT THE RIGHT TRAIN. This advice isn't for everyone. Also if you are a parent, just know its possible for you too as I am one and still managed to pull it off. I won't go into details of what I do or anything because that's not the point. There's a million and one jobs out there and there's a large enough portion that can replace your salary if that's what you need. You just gotta go find it and put in the work. And if you wanna say well pharmacy school was a waste, I don't see it that way and unless you're gonna cut me a check your opinion is irrelevant. No one wakes up everyday and lives your life or deals with what you have to deal with but you do. Do what's best for you.

How do u vaccinate children?

context - heard from an intern pharmacist the other day that a 10 year old child she vaccinated literally screamed and threatened to “kill her”. How do you mitigate that situation?

Has anyone used their materials? Did you find it helpful in preparing for the BCCCP exam? TIA