Being Allowed to Sit down at work

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Hello,

Do your employers allow you to sit at work?

I am trying to get an idea of which employers will and wont.

I am at walmart, and its a great company but just recently there has been a backlash against pharmacist being able to sit at all. The only way around this is to get an ADA accommodation, hence a lot of paperwork, and getting medical documentation, etc etc.

So for those that work with other employers, are they allowing you to sit if you have a medical condition? Or are they asking you to fill out a lot of paper work before they allow you to sit?
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I actually have a medical condition, and I finally did get a note from my physician about it. I haven't had any issues with needing to sit even before I got the note. I did not need to fill out a lot of paper work to get the accommodation. They just required a signed letter from your physician on their official letterhead.
 
I thought pharmacists didn't sit cause it is busy. I had no idea it was a rule -_-
 
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What was Walmart's reasoning for not allowing pharmacists to sit down?

Ive worked at major chain pharmacies but never heard of such policy.
 
It's location/supervisor specific at CVS. No broad rules.
 
Really cannot understand the logic behind this. If you're at a computer verifying, why do you need to be standing near it? I can understand if you're filling, doing pick up, or things that require you to move back and forth. In those cases, sitting down and getting back up is going to slow you down. But when you're in the same spot for a while, who cares?

All of the pharmacies I have been in have had at the very least one regular stool, and a few step stools you could also use. Wegmans even had swivel office chairs.
 
Want to sit down? Hospital pharmacy is for you. I have to get out of my office once in a while just to prevent DVTs.:smuggrin:
 
Posts like this make me very thankful for the fact that I don't work retail. Hospital/clinical is so much better.
 
I'll sit down towards the end of my shift if my feet are hurting. 12 hours standing is no joke, and I don't want to run into any problems down the road.

Nobody has ever said anything about it.
 
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xiphoid2010 said:
Want to sit down? Hospital pharmacy is for you. I have to get out of my office once in a while just to prevent DVTs.:smuggrin:
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+ managed care. I have to get up every hour just to stretch my legs.
 
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I asked a seasoned RPh about this the other day, and she said it could be due to how the customers view us.

She actually had a customer complaint a few years back. The customer thought the RPh "looked lazy just sitting there and wouldn't hurry up to help the patient." :mad:
 
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thisoneorthat said:
I asked a seasoned RPh about this the other day, and she said it could be due to how the customers view us.

She actually had a customer complaint a few years back. The customer thought the RPh "looked lazy just sitting there and wouldn't hurry up to help the patient." :mad:
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Yep. I have heard this same reasoning from my PIC.
 
shaq786 said:
I am at walmart, and its a great company but just recently there has been a backlash against pharmacist being able to sit at all. The only way around this is to get an ADA accommodation, hence a lot of paperwork, and getting medical documentation, etc etc.
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Hmm, I work for Walmart and we are allowed stools. The regional manager tried to take them away but it turned it that was against policy, and a regional manager is not allowed to change that. Sounds like yours is trying to change that.

In practice we're way to busy to sit down, in most cases, but there is one slow store I go to sometimes where I sit on my ass all day.
 
joetrisman said:
Unless you're rounding all the time
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Hospital I had a rotation at used to do sit down rounds. Residents, nurses, attending, pharmacist, students, etc sit down in this office with a huge executive long table, discuss each patient there.

Another place it was done right at the nursing station. Never really saw the patients during rounds unless something interesting came up or resident failed to catch something important.
 
Sparda29 said:
Hospital I had a rotation at used to do sit down rounds. Residents, nurses, attending, pharmacist, students, etc sit down in this office with a huge executive long table, discuss each patient there.

Another place it was done right at the nursing station. Never really saw the patients during rounds unless something interesting came up or resident failed to catch something important.
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I think he meant rounding with the physicians and others. One of our local hospitals has several teams you can round on. Another one just has the sit down rounds you describe and interdisciplinary rounds where everyone BUT the doctors meets at the nurses station, discusses the patients, and not much gets done.
 
pharm B said:
I think he meant rounding with the physicians and others. One of our local hospitals has several teams you can round on. Another one just has the sit down rounds you describe and interdisciplinary rounds where everyone BUT the doctors meets at the nurses station, discusses the patients, and not much gets done.
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I've seen the latter type of rounds and wondered why.
 
pharm B said:
I think he meant rounding with the physicians and others. One of our local hospitals has several teams you can round on. Another one just has the sit down rounds you describe and interdisciplinary rounds where everyone BUT the doctors meets at the nurses station, discusses the patients, and not much gets done.
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Nope, all the doctors were involved. It was funny when we actually had to go see something because then everyone got up out of the Italian leather chairs and then walked over to the patient room and then walked back to the office.
 
joetrisman said:
I've seen the latter type of rounds and wondered why.
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At an LTACH, they sort of made sense. It gave the case managers a good idea of when to expect discharge, and identified any issues that might hasten or hinder that discharge.

At a regular hospital, I didn't get it at all. They were sort of miming what a bigger facility did, but since it wasn't a teaching hospital doctors rounded all hours of the day, making rounding with them difficult.
 
Sparda29 said:
Nope, all the doctors were involved. It was funny when we actually had to go see something because then everyone got up out of the Italian leather chairs and then walked over to the patient room and then walked back to the office.
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For some reason, I picture you and all of the doctors having 70's porn-staches and aviators while doing this...

How far off am I?
 
joetrisman said:
Unless you're rounding all the time
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Where I've been only the really high level ones such as ICUs have true daily walking rounds. Med/surg do sitting rounds + go see the ones they have issues with. Even in ICUs the rounds last 3 hrs at most, and we get to sit in the satellite pharmacy afterwards. :)
 
A lot of services at my hospital do a hybrid; we round on the patients that need to be seen and just discuss the ones that don't at the end.
 
croquemonsieur said:
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too many pharmacists are spineless jellyfish
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There is about a 0% chance that Sparda would say that IRL I 'd bet. ;)

I hear stories about DM's coming through and throwing out chairs/radios/etc. That would be my breaking point. Don't throw away my stool!
 
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