Leaving Clinical Pharmacy Practice isn’t a Failure

As a pharmacist who works in a non-traditional pharmacy role, I know what it feels like to make the shift from a traditional clinical role to an area that is considered non-clinical (investigational drug . For this reason, when I happened upon the article, I love clinical pharmacy practice…and had to leave it, in AJHP it grabbed my attention. While many things are cited in this article that contributed to her burnout and eventual attrition out of clinical practice, I want to discuss the guilt that comes with leaving clinical practice behind and why it needs to end.