ALENDRONATE SODIUM AND CHOLECALCIFEROL vs MULTIVITAMIN

A number of years ago I worked as a pharmacist at the corner. I was a floater in a geographically large district, meaning I covered different stores across a huge region. One store was 100+ miles from home, in a rough area where staff had been robbed. Guess where my DM (via the market scheduler) kep

Need to vent & reflect to see if I'm in the wrong. I'm a new PharmD grad with fair bit of confidence in osteoporosis (did grad studies) in Ontario. I saw that a 90y F patient on blister pack (C-PAK) has been on risedronate for 7 years so I suggested to MD about taking drug holiday if not high ri

I’m currently a junior in university and throughout my life I’ve always thought I’d wanted to become a pharmacist however, today was my first day training as a pharmacy tech at rite aid and I had the worst day ever. The pharmacist didn’t train me, she went over like 20 steps on the computer super fa

Help us keep up to date and know what competitive salaries are so we don’t get low balled too bad… plus something for people considering pharmacy to see as glass door still thinks you will make 120k lolllll https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEpxXlzQ5gvEzRhDlP8Kmd0C-kAa8eIRfncDGBcP3XSiaJig/vi

Many times I have seen on here that residencies are scams by hospital institutions to pay new grads less, but its often met with controversy. Why is that? I would give the opinion that its because of the amount of stakeholders in the residency system, and biases for and against. You have the current

EDIT: To clarify, I’m talking strictly about financial ROI. Pharmacist wages have stagnated, but the point is how the degree compares financially to other graduate paths and how hard it is to break into the top 10% of earners in general. This also doesn’t speak to job quality, which matters a lot. A

https://ncpa.org/newsroom/news-releases/2023/09/27/payback-time-community-pharmacists-cheer-class-action-lawsuit Between the walkout and this, hope springs eternal. ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Sept. 27, 2023) – The National Community Pharmacists Association loudly applauded a class action lawsuit filed against

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/the-pharmd-applicant-pool-problem.html According to this article which is light on details Health system leaders are concerned in some areas of the country about dwindling pools of Pharm D applications. The Director quoted says a lot of Health Care Prof

I’m a nurse and I was impulsively thinking of ordering 0.5 mg of risperdal tablet STAT just because pt’s family were yelling at me and stating pt needed medications urgently. So have you seen something crazy like a STAT order of like multivitamin? Pretty sure ppl would get written up for that lol.

Pharmacists of reddit, I come to you with questions about medicines and expiration dates. Are some medicines labeled with expiration dates just because of legal obligation? For example, canned goods have expiration dates of a couple years, when its common knowledge they can be safely consumed 5+

The compounding pharmacy that I work at uses a 24 port Baxter pump. I have worked in TPN pharmacies that would do manual ads for things like insulin per patient, but we don't do ads here., There is currently a process suggestion to remove multivitamin from the pump and have us manually add one ml t

I just received a call from group plan pharmacy and made the mistake of answering some of their questions. After the call I searched them up and I found out that they were a scam. How can I stop this from happening? Do I call my insurance? “I'm guessing their angle is to bill your insurance company