Does anyone know why pharmacy stored in Florida are closing early
There are not enough shifts to cover these stores however we all thought when they made all the Pharmacists cut their store hours and float to get them
they would need more hours?
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Some techs don't even take breaks because there is simply "not enough time to". Because having your whole staff of techs take a break means that it'll be one pharmacist and one tech for thirty minutes that really feels like three hours of torture for the pharmacist, then you have under trained techs who can't be trained properly cause there aren't enough hours to do so.... Then the more experienced techs don't have time to train because they're too busy fixing mess ups from other days so they spend so their time on other tasks so they can't really train then trainees can't watch them or really learn anything cause there is no time to
Walgreens has been making pharmacists right out of school managers. They are also hiring a lot of pharmacists who can barely speak english as floaters. Many pharmacists have been leaving the company.
I can see why this is happening- my opinion
Is pharmacists are being pressured to fill in metric time. It will be worse for the pharmacists wry soon with flu season coming around the corner.Every time we get a flu shot it will make the metrics worse as the metrics are not geared for taking that into consideration. This will cause a catch-up or so called lag behind when f4 come around. Then wait times need to be adjusted in the metrics and slowed down during season.
They need to be slowed down I. General especially without flu season. With longer hours on the pharmacists, not being able to get a bathroom break or time to eat the body cannot absorb the stress as much and becomes weakened.
Mistakes may become inevitable. This is a danger to the public and also to the health of the pharmacists. Now with dir reimbursement at low u less we make these calls to adherence or not get paid..we have more tasks to worry about . The pharmacist and tech if they do not do these chores the pharmacy will not good compliance and our ratings will go down- insurance won’t pay us. Metrics must be adjusted.
It is a catch 22 because also If metrics at adjusted during this... it also may n take into Consideration the time to get it all done in a days time.
We need more bodies ie overlap
To call then get it done to complete the volume I techs and pharmacists or the adherence ratings /flu shots /metrics will suffer
If our compliance goes down the tube we don’t get paid and down goes Walgreens
Nobody will volunteer to work extra and many sick calls will come into play
Too much stress and a danger to the public The pharmacists and tech health . Walgreens is diving headfirst into a swimming pool without water for lack of reimbursement (plus metrics/hour cuts/longer shifts /staff abuse/ lawsuits/audits to add fuel to the fire)
Let us pray for a better system and new changes for the better-
From what I know, and read up on before leaving the company about 3 weeks ago, it’s mainly part of their “cost cutting” initiative. A bunch of the 24-hrs store in my area became 6am-11pm stores, so that meant a lot more patients and workload for the 24-hrs stores, which cut down from about 4-5, to just 2 stores within my city. Imagine having to fill and verify over now 300 or so pr-scrip-ions within your 9hr shift, not to mention budget cuts across the entire district, so you’re barely with 2 techs for the entire day and and 2 intern who has no clue how anything works.
What makes it worse, the company took away almost any remaining incentives to even give its employees any motivation to work. And as a former ASMT, we already had our hands full with front end business, 3 trucks a week, DM visits, company initiatives to push, and a lack of any pharmacy training to even be of any help to the pharmacy. I was mainly back there filling, while taking calls for the front, and standing at the register while a patient yells at me about getting a reminder call for a pr-scrip-ion that’s soon to be refilled.
I find it makes sense that some floaters don’t want to deal with the workload, especially on the weekends when coverage is thinned out to keep the weekdays filled.
And the RXMs are also to blame by manipulating so they don't have to work at times they don't want. Who would volunteer for a 6pm to 10pm shift on a Friday??
Interesting. So they are closing Walgreens pharmacies early because they can't find pharmacists to work? That tells a lot.
Walgreens should be embarrassed on how pathetic they are running the company and their stores if they can't even cover pharmacists shifts when there is a national surplus of pharmacists with huge school loans.
Pharmacy is their number one department and reason for them to exist for the health and well being of others.
This is outstandingly hilarious.