Another Catch-22 in the practice of pharmacy

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

How many of you know that you are violating some part of the practice act… how about not taking breaks required by it… how about working more hours/day that is statue limit.. how about filling more Rx/shift than the practice act says is “dangerous”? This applies particularly if you are the PIC… if you or […]

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Has anyone seen ?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Has anyone seen the new Walgreen’s commercial.. it is sort of telling of what WAGS expect of their Pharmacist(s). The new commercials shows a RPH being cloned into 5-6 different entities… each RUNNING .. not just walking fast… and performing different tasks at the same time.. I suspect that their original intent was to show […]

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It isn’t what they say.. it is what they don’t say !

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Everyone knows by now that Obamacare (patient protection and affordable care  act) is definitely on track for 2014… unless this fall’s election makes a dramatic change in the Senate and White  House. Most of us has figured out by now that all the rhetoric about “keeping your own doctor” .. is  going to be all […]

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The verdict – in writing – is in !

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

For you those of you who haven’t had your head stuck in the sand for the past 6-12 months…you are probably aware of the situation on the east coast where a RPH got into a “pissing match” with a non-pharmacist store manager over the a drive thru window remaining open.. when the RPH was one […]

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Other RPH’s humorous (?) videos

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Under construction .. create a video at Xtranormal and I will publish it here

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Here is a interesting video about PBM’s and all the money they rake in

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

This video was send out by the NCPA  (National Community Pharmacist Assoc) Here is a second video that was put out a couple of years ago .. explaining the “smoke & mirrors” that the PBM’s use to hide the real price of what everyone is paying Kind of explains how ESI/Medco combination will show AT […]

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Is APHA & NABP getting ready to shove another set of “metrics” down our throat?

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Here is a quote from the NCAP Enews Weekly… The Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation has released its community pharmacy accreditation standards for public comment. CPPA is collaboration between the American Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy to create accreditation requirements for all community pharmacies. Here is a quote on the […]

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First in hopefully a series

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Here is something that I am playing around with … play video As most of us know, typically we Pharmacists are poorly educated/trained in living/surviving in the corporate world. Xtranormal provides a good vehicle that could be used as educational vignettes for Pharmacists and Pharmacy techs. All of these video will be on the front […]

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Here is a interesting development

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

This is a quote for the Kansas BOP meeting  March 8, 2012 Walgreens – William Cover, R.Ph. made some brief statements about the Walgreens Well Experience Pharmacy and then showed a video describing the new wellness concept. Walgreens currently has approximately 100 stores on this new model, currently none in Kansas.  The model has pharmacists […]

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This is amazing.. a lifeguard… breaks the rules .. to save a life.. and gets fired..

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Here is a story about a young lifeguard in Florida who had to chose to go “outside” of the beach area that his company was hired to protect..by a few hundred feet.. to save a drowning person… His reward… he got fired!!… not only that .. but .. two other life guards who worked for […]

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