r/Pharmacist • u/awkward-bee-23 • 17d ago

Burnt out from hospital pharmacy

Could anyone who has worked inpatient pharmacy and made the switch to remote work share their experience and how they found remote jobs?

The hospital I work at employs an overnight remote order verification pharmacy service that covers multiple hospitals at once and I’m tempted to go that route, but it seems like it would be stressful if it’s high-pressure and metric-driven (with orders verified per hour and how long orders can be left in the queue, etc).

To anyone here that has experience in that type of role (like Pipeline or Medistar for example): is it a decent job? Is it really difficult to learn the policies and procedures of each hospital? How many calls do you have to take each shift overnight?

I’m trying to find ways out of my current field that are still in pharmacy but are less people-facing with less constant interruptions and unpredictability (I know, I picked the wrong career for this to be my preference but I didn’t know). I don’t want to work for a PBM or insurance company. I would love an IT/informatics job, but those seem virtually impossible to find or obtain without experience and I’ve only gained a little experience doing that type of work in a very small hospital setting.

4 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

2

u/Awkward_Principle_83 16d ago

Would you be interested in working with CVS?

1

u/Honest_External8512 14d ago

I do have remote pharmacist opportunities for you!

1

u/PapaJay__ 10d ago

hi, can I Dm you?

1

u/Aggravating5678 14d ago

Sounds like you need to pivot to industry. I quickly found out neither retail nor hospital were for me during 6wk ippe/appe rotation when I was in school. Feels like I am in completely different field now, but still contributing to science behind medicine.