Bye, bye! Exiting a pharmacy employee the right way
The process of ending someone’s employment is a brutal one for everyone. However, our role is to take ownership of the process and outcome while leading everyone through it with respect and clarity.
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10/28/2024
How to manage the babysitting part of our pharmacy job
Ever find yourself working harder than you need to in the process of buying something for your pharmacy? When choosing a vendor, I have learned that I prefer to do business with those I can communicate with, which is a nice way of saying that I do not have to babysit them.
10/22/2024
Pharmacists, firefighters and architects: which one are you?
The good old pharmacy model saw the pharmacist as the firefighter and the architect, with burnout waiting around the corner. This one-person band put out fires and built buildings. However, since pharmacy is much more complex today, we find that the traditional jack-of-all-trades pharmacist divided into two different people.
10/15/2024
Dealing with the three phases of pharmacist ego
Across years of experience practising pharmacy, a pharmacist may go through a natural incline in ego during a steep initial learning phase, followed by a plateau. Here pharmacists have seen many of the more intense challenges already and the number of new headaches flattens out. Finally, towards approximately the last third of the pharmacists’ career, they begin feeling less driven by ego and let the problems around them simmer or settle.