Long term care pharmacists are involved with nursing facilities, often times working with the elderly or the disabled. The benefits include a flexible schedule and the more clinical setting. Negatives include long work weeks and the large amount of time dedicated to paperwork.
About a quarter of the pharmacist’s time is dedicated to medication management, another quarter in dispensing, and the rest in data management or patient management.
A majority of the respondents have a pharm D degree and a large portion of those have completed certificate training, residency, or some other form of extra training. The average age of the respondents was 50 and 65% were female. The majority of respondents are making over 100,000$ a year. Respondents also indicated that while the job did leave most at least somewhat satisfied, it is a very challenging setting.
Some of the most important factors according to the insider’s perspective are passion for caring for the
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This could work for me in the short term, however, I’m sure 5 or 10 years down the line I will want a lighter work week. This career path also lines up with one of my higher rated categories, self-worth and I can see why. Comparing this to something like retail it seems like the pharmacist has a lot more respect and responsibility in long term care, which piques my interest. There’s also a high level of autonomy involved in long term care that really interests me. I’m not a huge fan of dealing out orders to others so being able to work on my own should be a good thing. The Pressure/stress involved in long term seems to be a little bit more than I’d want, but it’s hard to find a job in our career that doesn’t involve some amount of stress. Overall, at this point in my education I am leaning towards something like long term care, however this survey did not fully convince me to make it my