Where are you on your pharmacy job ladder?
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.
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9/24/2024
Icebergs, nuclear weapons and taking a new pharmacy job
In pharmacy, the iceberg principle will apply at each step of promotion along the various dispensary or head office jobs. This will also apply in the change from managerial to ownership roles. We can only see what we understand and the truth hits home when we finally step inside.
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5 expert negotiation tactics for pharmacists
We are pharmacists. We are not lawyers. We are not real estate agents. However, that does not mean we are void of negotiating. 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.
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How to manage patient interactions with your pharmacy
When I realized that patients want and expect their medication experts to guide many of their choices, I began putting effort into developing workflow that would reduce the number of times patients visited or called for interactions that did not require the pharmacist.
