How to plan your pharmacy workplace exit the right way
The way you leave a pharmacy will speak volumes to your character. Although many good things that you do will go unnoticed and other things will potentially become inflamed, you will sleep well at night knowing you left the place in the best spot possible. At the very least, you can set up a long-term schedule, ensure staff cross-training and provide a list of lead candidates. You will leave the pharmacy better than when you entered years ago.
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Why should pharmacists avoid cutting their own lawns?
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How do you avoid hurt feelings in your pharmacy?
As part of the duties of being a pharmacist, our job involves helping people when they are not at their best. Empathetically recognizing that they carry burdens with their visits to see us is the first step to being the helper (as bystander) instead of a combatant fighting against them. They do not necessarily mean to fight us, but we are just sometimes in their way. It is our job to recognize that and manage it.
