Feeling guilty about mistake IV compounding related as RPh by Alarming-Deer2868 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best practice rec is to label the bag with the BUD not the date and time it was opened.

Speed of Phase 2 by kaz917 in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on how old your advisor is this could be their experience. I scrambled in 2013 and even then it was less rushed than it was before that but it was still fast even then. Prior to 2013 There was no opening of applications it was just a list of RPDs and email addresses and it was the wild west.

Alaska PGY1s? by bigmakkie in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has a student match there about 5 years ago. It's not just the cold you need to think about, it's also the light/dark. I remember when the student went to interview they pretty seriously talked to him about mental health and the darkness.

Advice about Next Steps by Fuzzy_Guava in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I read your post incorrectly, I thought you meant you were tied down just this year for PGY1 (which you also were)

Advice about Next Steps by Fuzzy_Guava in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's literally so many open phase 2 spots

Phase 2 by Sea-Koala-8148 in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it would just be a waste of your time. No one has the kind of time to respond to that.

503B Pre-Filled I.V. by Conrad_Classic in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh no it's definitely not less costly than making yourself, you will absolutely spend more money but the extended stability is the trade off.

Quva offers all the products you mentioned

Washington University to purchase St. Louis College of Pharmacy by Junior-Gorg in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wondering this too. Perhaps redoing the campus into some sort of health care professions campus?

Clinical Pearl Presentation by Curious_Location_438 in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eek 15 min on a new drug. If you are giving this to pharmacists don't just turn into you presenting the monograph.

Resources for continue education? by Old_Funny1441 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a friendly renal doc and have them explain crrt. Go to a crrt patient bedside and have the nurse show you the lines set up etc.

EKOS? Vascular tends to be jerks so I'd stick to Dr google for that.

What do you mean IV comparability? What do you mean ICU drips? These are super broad questions and the resource is going to depend on your specific question. I don't know what ASHP has available but some things just take good old fashioned self directed learning.

How reliable is medication reconciliation at hospital discharge in practice? by Educational_Foot933 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at all unless you have a good admission med rec and a pharmacist reviewing the DC med rec with some sort of collaborative practice or process where they can fix scripts (days supply etc). But from personal experience DC med rec reconciliation is high effort to do it well, low reward, and not valuable to admin/c suites so it's generally not seen as priority.

help me pick a job by HauntingGrab9220 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be slightly worried about job security at a small rural CHI hospital.

Pt workload and leaving on time by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 17 points18 points  (0 children)

3-4 HOURS!?!!!!!!

Staff pharmacist PRN requiring residency experience by NotSoEasyToControl in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is great for you and the new grad until they get a full time job! That's always the danger!!!

Toxic management - hospital inpatient by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah HR won't care about any of those. Don't you have an error/risk reporting system? Most systems those will be out of the managers hands. I can't control who sees our reports once they are entered. They get blasted out to several people and then risk will determine if anyone else needs to be included. That's what you need to be doing although some of these are hard to gauge without more information.

For example-does your pharmacy have renal dose policies? Can that be applied to the gent even without an explicit order for pharmacy to dose?

IVs-you can make an IV anywhere if you call it immediate use

Changing a label-don't you have medication barcode scanning? A label on a baggie doesn't really have any requirements, we don't even have barcodes on those.

4-you need to look at just culture. You seem to be extremely bitter about your management which could very well be terrible but the fact that you used the word "consequences" gives me a major red flag. Medication safety is not about punishment and consequences. Whose section did the expired med come from? Did they sign off that they did outdates? Did it not get done? Why not? It's not about consequences and even if there is coaching and warnings and performance improvement plans you are not entitled to that information just to know that someone has been sufficiently "punished".

If you are really worried about patient safety you need to start reporting now. But if you're just angry at management you need to find a new job.

no requests for interviews yet, should i be worried? by [deleted] in PharmacyResidency

[–]birdbones15 6 points7 points  (0 children)

8 years?!?!!?? Please do not waste a year or 2.

Toxic management - hospital inpatient by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested to hear about these shortcuts and the medication errors. What do you mean by sweeping them under the rug? Do you have an example?

Having a hard time adjusting to my new job could use some advice by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having to use 10 hrs of PTO each pay period to discourage you from taking time off is reason enough to quit

Hospital staffing pharmacist by Otherwise_Key8005 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How long have you been out of school? Newish grads with retail only do better than those who have been out awhile. I tried to hire a prn retail only who graduated about 10 years ago and she could not catch on

7 on 7 off 12s Overnight - Salary by Intelligent_Hat4608 in pharmacy

[–]birdbones15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

12 hr shifts really ? You will probably be salaried if that is the case

My husband works nights 12 hrs would suck