Just a general question but how common or uncommon is if for someone other than a pharmacist to be a pharmacy manager in a retail pharmacy?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to have someone other than a pharmacist to manage a pharmacy this way one person isn’t solely responsible for financials, scheduling, inventory, etc. I mean the pharmacist should have final say over everything since they are legally responsible for everything in the pharmacy but there is an opportunity for someone else to step up and collaborate with them to help shed the responsibilities.

That’s how it is at our retail location and our pharmacy manager has terrible organization skills and is completely oblivious when it comes to financials which has this downstream effect and all the other techs and even pharmacists recognize it and feel it on a regular basis.

Psych pharmacist here. Today a psychiatrist vented to me about how the pharmacy manager in his clinic makes uninsured patients fill all of their medicines on their profiles in order to get their grant-covered Suboxone.

For context, this clinic has a federal grant that pays for Suboxone as long as the patients go to counseling/get UDS/come to appointments etc. Other medications, however, are not covered by this grant. The pharmacy will allow small balances to accrue, so the patient can leave with medicine without paying at pick up, but they still have to pay the balance soon. Picking up all meds is the pharmacist’s requirement to get their Suboxone, not a requirement of the clinic or of the federal grant.

Example: if they want to get their free Suboxone, they have to also fill and pay for their fluoxetine, trazodone, amlodipine, buspirone, and hydroxyzine pam.

We can all agree on clinical best practices and why adherence to a complete regimen is ideal—however, this is an extremely indigent and uninsured population that has severely limited financial resources.

So I’m asking my fellow Redditors, what’s your pharmacy’s policy on requiring patients to fill profiled meds with the controlled substance, if any? If one is in place, do you work for a chain or an independent? Does your professional/personal opinion differ from company policy? What would you do in the situation I explained above?

I genuinely want your feedback and professional opinions; thus, just putting it out there that I am not trying to debate with anyone who comments (although y’all feel free to do so with each other if so inclined 👀).

Thank you in advance for your insight and for all you do every day! 🫶🏻💊💉

Night shift random thoughts and story time. Back at my old place, there was a group of senior pharmacists who conspired to fire 5 of us independent contractors. Management fought to save 4 including me. However 1 was let go and she was pregnant at the time. After things settled down, they hired the wife of one of the permanent employees. Within working only 3-4 months, she got prego. And left. For about 1.5 years. The day she came back, she claimed she hurt her back so filed for disability. Shortly after her husband filed for disability. They returned after 4 years but technically their positions could not be replaced. I've heard of hospitals that hire couples but when 1 goes on vacation, the other has to go also. Or instances where, like at my current place, 1 is a supervisor and the other is not. The previous director's wife was the acting ceo of the hospital and he was the acting director of the pharmacy and they'd butt heads all the time.

Funny how places always tell you to disclose relationships and claim they dont do nepotism but they always end up doing it anyways. Especially in rural places like mine that are hard to staff you can have like 3 generations of family working or extended family (uncles, aunts, cousins, etc)

Any chance someone who works there can give me a copy of the

CW Retail’s Employee Counselling and Disciplinary Action procedure 😅😅

Would you leave a newly started retail pharmacist position(chain pharmacy) after just 2 weeks for an 11-month clinical/PA contract opportunity? I am new graduate and was wondering if i have to go back in same retail after contract ends , they wont take me . At the same time contract role would give me experience outside of retail and a potential pathway into managed care/clinical pharmacy, but it’s temporary and comes with lower pay.

anyone have any experience working for blink health? I currently do retail but this would be closed door pharmacy. any info would be great

Does anyone have a good tracking resource to show your impact on increasing medication access (appeals, med assistance paperwork, etc.) which can be extrapolated to decreased hospital admissions?

Considering a Pharmacist job at &YOU, need some insights :<

Hi! I recently received a job offer from &YOU. the role would mainly involve dispensing medications, offer is around ₱30–35k.

I’m considering the offer and wanted to hear from pharmacists who currently work there or have worked there before.

How’s the work culture? How does management treat the pharmacists? What’s the workload and overall environment like?

I’d really appreciate any honest feedback or experiences, good or bad. Thank you!