Hello WCI community.
My wife is a clinical pharmacist and she is considering doing some "moonlighting" by offering her expertise with patients in nursing homes. She is considering taking this one of two routes. One, she would do medication therapy management for which she could charge a fee for her professional services. There would be an extra twist that would combine her profession as well as one of her hobbies (I'll spare you the details for multiple reasons). Two, would be that she does this as a charitable deed and does not charge the NH and helping elderly people. Either way she would be happy.
Questions:
1. How lucrative is MTM counseling for pharmacists (she's quoting me very large ranges, but I can't imagine it is a very lucrative endeavor)?
2. Are there liabilities one should consider and protect against outside of her private malpractice insurance?
3. Do you think nursing homes would benefit from having a clinical pharmacist make "counseling rounds" once a week?
4. How does one "write off" their professional time as a charitable deed?
My wife is a clinical pharmacist and she is considering doing some "moonlighting" by offering her expertise with patients in nursing homes. She is considering taking this one of two routes. One, she would do medication therapy management for which she could charge a fee for her professional services. There would be an extra twist that would combine her profession as well as one of her hobbies (I'll spare you the details for multiple reasons). Two, would be that she does this as a charitable deed and does not charge the NH and helping elderly people. Either way she would be happy.
Questions:
1. How lucrative is MTM counseling for pharmacists (she's quoting me very large ranges, but I can't imagine it is a very lucrative endeavor)?
2. Are there liabilities one should consider and protect against outside of her private malpractice insurance?
3. Do you think nursing homes would benefit from having a clinical pharmacist make "counseling rounds" once a week?
4. How does one "write off" their professional time as a charitable deed?
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