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Have you ever stopped to consider how much you actually make per hour as a pharmacy owner? And have you considered how much you make based on the type of operation you run? You might be surprised to run the numbers.

Reflecting on 15 years of being a pharmacist, which started as a part-time pharmacy cashier making $6.85 per hour five years before that, I have held all these traditional job titles that we find in community pharmacy. This means that through two decades, I have spent most of my time looking up the ladder and now my vantage point has me looking down the ladder for a full-circle picture of the profession and its jobs.

The consequences of measles infection extend beyond momentary health threats, encompassing severe illness, fatalities, even long-term neurological disorders.

Travel medicine has become a valuable niche clinical service, which is excellent for patients and professionally satisfying for the pharmacists who deliver it. As you continue to expand the clinical services you offer, travel medicine is an excellent skill for your pharmacy repertoire!

I have had many negative results as a pharmacist, as a manager, and as a leader. But I learned over time (and you will, too) that those negative results showed me how to improve, as long as I 'got the negative.'

People get sick, it happens. But when we see obvious patterns like repeated incidents of staff calling in sick before a weekend or the same employee being sick on a weekly basis, there is some work do to.

The different perspectives we have acquired through our pharmacy careers bring value to the overall care that can be provided. But we must be willing to share the wisdom we have acquired, and more so, we must be willing to listen to the wisdom being shared so that it can produce the best value.

We are not lawyers. We are not real estate agents. However, that does not mean we are devoid of negotiating skills. Whether we are explaining a co-pay to a patient, signing an agreement with an employer, buying a pharmacy or making a staff schedule, there are parts of the pharmacist’s day where we just have to pull up our pants and negotiate.