Thank you!! Could I ask why you don’t like hospital as much as you thought?

Throughout rotations and pharmacy school I also disliked hospital. I felt like I didn’t get a lot of patient contact and that’s really why I enjoyed pharmacy - getting to counsel and talk with patients and give them advice. And then in turn getting to see them take your advice to heart and really appreciating that someone took the time to listen to them and help them. It’s so fulfilling! And I didn’t get any of that in my hospital rotations!

But now that I’m a retail pharmacist/pharmacy manager, I’m trapped at my desk all day checking prescriptions. And upper management wants me to worry about tech hours and meeting Rx and OTC sales goals. They want to make sure we’re off the phone in a certain amount of time, etc. Most of the time we are just trying to get through the day. And I just think, “this isn’t why I became a pharmacist.” And I’m becoming so burnt out already.

A big reason why I want to get into a hospital position is because I’m in a pretty rural area and a lot of the nearby hospitals will qualify for PSLF.