[QUOTE who="FORMER NEW YORKER in Lewisville, Texas"]Pharmacy was only a BS degree 10 years ago. There are tons of pharmacy schools opening up, so they are in the verge of a surplus.
I have applied to pharmacy schools last year, some schools have 120 slots and 3400 applicants. They all want to make 50-60/hour.
The reason why they make so much is because there is not a lower degree that can do the same job. If they created a nurse pharmacy speciality, the wages would go down substantially b.c they have alternate cheaper way to verify scripts.
The point is there are plenty of types of jobs for pharmacists:
Community Pharmacy (Independent)
Retail ( CVS , Walgreen, etc)
Hospital (staff, of clinical pharmacist)
They all have something in common, they all require a pharmD, so if your in HARRISIBURG PA, or ORLANDO FL, you will be still making the 50/hour.
Unlike Medical Technology, people are leaving Florida 20/hour for California 30-40/hour. Its all about location in Medical Technology, not about standards and a license which should lead to standard pay like other ancillary professions.[/QUOTE]
We will not have “nurse pharmacist”. We are called pharmacy Technicians. We can run a pharmacy independently with out the direct supervision in rural pharmacies. Your pharmacies in a city will have a pharmacist on staff, because they’re a different class of pharmacy. To be honest Technicians are the example of a “nurse pharmacist”.
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