Job Responsibilities
Main phone center, directing calls, taking refills,filling.
copies and or tranfers of medications from 1 pharmacy to another.
complete customer service.responsible for ordering, all
returns,knowledge of over a thousand medications,1 of 2
responsible for recieving and checking all narcotics. filling and
metro dose packaging of nursing home medications, all such as
communication with doctors/nurses, verification. work cash
register, call MD office for customer refills. Maintain filing
systems for all.Privacy Officer, responsible for training new
employees on privacy policies and procedures, keeping updates and
all files concerning privacy policy within company. Delivering
medications to homebound customers, vacum,clean kitchen/bathroom
stocking over the counter medications, looking up customer
requests for new drugs/and over the counter products. standing 9
hours daily, opening 100s of bottles weekly to count and fill rx
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Job Requirements
Usually a pretty fast course, most often training is from
employer/pharmacist, and or co workers, you must learn fast! you
must be accurate,you must work fast, and bend up and down to
locate rx bottles from shelf's
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Uppers
Serving the public. interacting with people daily. customer service.
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Downers
Everything - you are required to do all the above I mentioned, and
technicians are the lowest paid profession I have encountered,
for the responsibilty and the nature of what techs do, they are
grossly underpaid and overworked! Preparing medication for
patients is in my opinion a very serious role. the pharmacist has
you do all the work, checks your work, and collects all the
money. This career is very high stress and mistakes could be deadly.
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Lifestyle
I find you must work long hours and come in early as the pharmacist usually is
understaffed and you must do the work of more than one person. dressing
professionally white pants,tennis shoes, and a polo type shirt. zero company
social events, zero employee appreciation. if you are lucky and I emphasise
lucky, you will find a fair and generous employer. beware.talk to previous
employees, and customers, As alot are in their own busines and make their own
rules, some do not even offer benfits, for this day and age this is a very old
fashioned type profession. stay away from mom and pop type pharmacies. go with
big companies, but check them carefully as well. if interested in something else
as well choose something else.
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Compensation
If your lucky you may start out at $7:00 an hour.
no bonuses
no benefits
nada, nothing, these guys are tight.......
I'm sure there are exceptions as there is with everything, not
all are bad I'm sure, but be cautious, and it is a very
interesting field, just be careful who you go to work for...
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Advice to Jobseekers
I think for future, there should be a tech union or something
because there is nothing to protect you and very easy for someone
to be taken advantage of.
Just interview your interviewer too.....
and talk to everyone you can about that particular store...
I don't want to sound so discouraging, BUT JUST BEWARE. alot of
these guys would prefer to continually hire anyone off the
street, than pay for someone with school/experience/ and
qualifications, because they would want to much money. and bottom
line thats what it all boils down to, doesn't it..
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