Ever since CVS started their scorched earth policy regarding massive tech cuts the state board has received an increased percentage of complaints regarding prescription mis-fills. As the guardians of public safety(according to their mast head) they had no choice but to tackle this problem head on and come up with the appropriate solution; which of course they did. From now on every pharmacist licensed in Ohio must now take at least four(4) hours of continuing education consisting of "patient safety concerns when filling a prescription".
This should definitely fix the problem of mis-fills. We never practiced safety! Who knew?
To be fair, this is only half of their safety solution. The other being the jailing of anyone guilty of making an error. Now that the second part of the plan is finally in place, you can breathe easily consumers of Ohio.
And by "consumers of Ohio" I of course mean "corporate bean counting assholes who are actually responsible for the problem." I doubt you had much worry they were going to inconvenience you in any way in order to keep people from experiencing preventable illness and death, but now you can rest assured you were right.
And to my friends left behind toiling for the chains, I'll say this is just the latest reason you need to get out. You know it as well as I do. I promise you you're not stuck there the way you feel you are. I made it out of that world and deep down.....you know you can too.
It won't get any better.
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I am surprised that no one has commented here. It often appears that the schedule can change at the whim of the DM. Two years ago the company cut the "full time" pharmacist hours from 40 to 35. That was followed a year later by changing the department hours from 8a-9p to 9a-9p. Last week, the full time hours dropped to 32. Is that to support the cost of acquisitions and settlements? The emphasis is on "patient care." "Employee care" does not count, it seems. The Ohio pharmacist is totally correct. The company's draconian methods not only jeopardize public safety but contribute to decaying morale. The well of ridiculous ideas is bottomless. I could go on, but there is not enough time and space.
Early last year Connecticut Pharmacists Association spoke to State Pharmacy Commission concerning impact of labor budget and metrics on patient safety. They formed a taskforce and launched a massive survey for pharmacists to share information on working conditions, rx volume, labor budgets, metrics measured etc. After the survey closed, they said the response was overwhelming and eye-opening. What groundbreaking change and paradigm shift came after that? In the fall, I got a mail saying the association is selling a Live CE titled: “Fast Food Pharmacy: Is Your Workload Putting Your Patients at Risk." Good to know Conn is not the only state that cares about patient safety.
The Buckeye State Board of "Pharmacy" now has a director who is not even a pharmacist; he is a lawyer. Everyone here (in Ohio) knows they don't give a rat's you-know-what about the pharmacists, our workload, metrics, or even making a serious attempt at any patient safety. They doubled the number of pharmacy schools in the state and allow these sub-par schools turn out sub-par pharmacists. They have mandated a Pharmacy Doctorate degree and now the pharmacist with a B.S.Pharm are not even eligible to apply to some pharmacy positions. I thank God I left retail 10 years ago. I probably only have 3 years left until my (early) retirement and I'm never coming back.
It’s is many years later and now an RN named RaDonda Vaught was charged and found guilty of accidentally killing a patient. Healthcare is not the place to punish individuals who make a mistake. It encourages dishonesty, destroys patient safety, and is a small part of why what few healthcare workers there are stressed and quitting. While I recognize the seriousness consequences of poor decisions, society is better served by professional boards & employers attempting to correct the problem and then help prevent it in the future. The criminal justice system should left for people who choose to deliberately break the law and didn’t care about what happened. Thanks for listening to my rant.
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