If you notice in this graphic the Management Team member FAILURE TO REPORT IN A TIMELY FASHION A POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF LAW OR COMPANY POLICY RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES can result in disciplinary action – including termination on FIRST OFFENSE
We have a SERIOUS and GROWING Pharmacist surplus.. it has been reported that for every 3 new pharmacist grads… they will be chasing MAYBE two available job openings.. We are supposedly graduating 15,000 new pharmacist every year… so we have 5000 pharmacists are looking for jobs that DO NOT EXISTS. It has also been reported that only the pharmacy manager (PIC Pharmacist in Charge) are the only ones getting FULL TIME POSITIONS. The rest are lucky to get a scheduled 32 hr weeks and may be able to pick up a extra shift now and then. What the new pharmacists are getting paid is substantially below what pharmacists were being paid when they started pharmacy school six years earlier and many have SIX FIGURE STUDENT LOANS.
What sort of COMPANY POLICIES has CVS implemented or going to implement in regards to the filling of controlled substances and if Pharmacist could be fired for the POTENTIAL VIOLATION of some obscure company policy or some obscure interpretation of any law or policy. Is more and more pharmacists going to find the only “safe harbor” is to JUST SAY NO to filling controlled substance Rxs ?
Here is a article from some time ago Chains’ ties run deep on pharmacy boards that indicated that non practicing corporate pharmacists are controlling most of the state pharmacy boards. Who believes that any of these pharmacy boards will respond to denial of care by pharmacists – particularly chain pharmacists ? When most of those controlling the boards are employees of the same corporations whose employees are the ones that are denying care and are doing so at the direction of the corporation’s policies and procedures.
Yes, the state boards of pharmacy holds the license every pharmacist, pharmacy and wholesaler in the state, BUT.. the DEA holds the license on every pharmacy, wholesaler and prescriber in a state and the DEA is probably best described as the “BIGGEST/MEANEST BULLY IN THE SCHOOL YARD “
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Wow, CVS must’ve done a study to determine what policies they could implement that would maximally destroy morale & work ethic, as well as ruin customer service even further because ludicrously tyrannical rules have them too stressed out to do anything but snarl. I’d guess that some of the hideous things pharmacists have done to patients (deny meds, yell at them for being addicts in front of others, etc) are really subconscious attempts to feel like they have SOME power SOMEwhere, like over patients.