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I'm curious as to what your opinions are. How much is too much? How many scripts do you think a pharmacist can safely fill by him/herself in a work day.
Based on the survey options, it seems they mean you are the only human in the pharmacy.What do you mean 'by yourself'? You mean as the only RPh on duty?
300-400/day is the norm per RPh per 12 hour day in any retail establishment. Put up or shut up
When you say by yourself, do you mean I'm working alone with no techs or I have a tech or two.
Huh?
Does by myself mean no tech help or no other pharmacists?
Gotcha. By the numbers posted the only thing that makes sense would be no tech help. 75 scripts a day with multiple rphs would be pretty awesome, lol
The most I've done ever as the only RPh is 680 but I had 2 techs, 2 interns, 2 cashiers.
Wow, just wow. No wonder you don't have any problems getting jobs in a saturated area. Wow.
By myself without any techs, I can do probably up to 100 assuming the phones are also ringing and whatnot.
The most I've done with me and one tech is 290.
The most I've done ever as the only RPh is 680 but I had 2 techs, 2 interns, 2 cashiers.
wtf 680?! are you really checking at that rate or are you just letting everything go through?! esp if you are talking about a 8hr day, even 12 hr day is unthinkable
9am-830pm, owner brings by platters for breakfast lunch and dinner. My cashiers refill my car's meter for me and make sure I don't get a parking ticket.
And yeah, I'm really checking at that rate. A lot of these are auto-refills that we process on a daily basis, maybe 250 new scripts. A lot of the new scripts are from a pediatric office who pretty much sends the same thing for every patient (amoxicillin, silapap, siltussin, siladryl, chewable vitamins, albuterol nebulizers). The rest of the scripts are your diabetes, htn, hyperlipidemia meds, asthma, copd meds.
i still maintain that there is no possible way that you can safely check 680 scripts in 10 or 11 hours by yourself, i hope to god no family member of mine get their meds from a pharmacist that is this reckless
Yes. If I have enough time to spend 30 seconds verifying prescriptions, I don't check them in 30 seconds. I check them at a safe rate and half don't get done.So what would you do, just not fill as many scripts?
"Checking" as in what? Rx matches label matches product? Maybe you can do that many. No way you're doing any kind of DUR though.And yeah, I'm really checking at that rate.
"Checking" as in what? Rx matches label matches product? Maybe you can do that many. No way you're doing any kind of DUR though.