Does walmart give immunizations?

[pharm4312]

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As the topic suggests, does Walmart give flu shots, or any other immunizations?

 

[Jibby321]

As the topic suggests, does Walmart give flu shots, or any other immunizations?

They are currently implementing a pilot program for immunizations. Starting with flu and building from there.

 

[pharm4312]

Do they provide any other clinical pharmacy services?

 

[grumps]

Walmart is smart in this regard. They know all this ancillary happy horsecrap is waste of time and detracts from a pharmacy's efficiency.

 

[Jibby321]

Do they provide any other clinical pharmacy services?

No.

 

[Jibby321]

Walmart is smart in this regard. They know all this ancillary happy horsecrap is waste of time and detracts from a pharmacy's efficiency.

Agreed

 

[BKpharm]

So... Out of curiousity, walmart doesnt ve any patient care programs.. Like calling pts to remind them about rxs like cvs? Does this apply to sams or walmart in general including sams?? So u guys go verify rxs and go home?

Also.. I was wondering hows tech hours and amt of rphs per shift?

 

[SoylentGreen]

Most Walmart's don't but Sam's Club does. Walmart has a pilot program to do immunizations, which means they'll probably all do it in a year or so.

Immunizations are pretty profitable if you look at how much vaccine costs vs how much you charge for them. It's pretty short-sighted to call taking a big piece of turf like that a waste of time when everybody here with two neurons to rub together knows that there's not enough work out there to keep the glut of pharmacists busy. Not that doing immunizations fundamentally changes that, but it helps.

 

[Jibby321]

So... Out of curiousity, walmart doesnt ve any patient care programs.. Like calling pts to remind them about rxs like cvs? Does this apply to sams or walmart in general including sams?? So u guys go verify rxs and go home?

Also.. I was wondering hows tech hours and amt of rphs per shift?

Wrong.

Techs do compliance calls about 4 days a week. 2 days a week a technician is supposed to go out on sale floor and attempt to "convert" new patients. Depends on the store. Good thing about walmart is that they adequately staff their pharmacies unlike CVS.

 

[BKpharm]

Convert pts? Like automatic fills? I m guessing sams is better than cvs

 

[type b pharmD]

I always heard walmart employed nurses to do this on a like once a month basis or something.

 

[tootoo30]

I always heard walmart employed nurses to do this on a like once a month basis or something.

That's correct. When I did a rotation at Sam's there was a nurse practitioner that came in on certain days to do flu shots. The pharmacist does not do immunizations. The pharmacy manager has to go to doctor's offices on his/her off day to solicit new patients also. They also make phone calls to patients to refill meds and also remind them to pick up their prescriptions.

 

[Jibby321]

Convert pts? Like automatic fills? I m guessing sams is better than cvs

Convert means trying to get patients to transfer their scripts.

 

[Jibby321]

I always heard walmart employed nurses to do this on a like once a month basis or something.

They used to have nurses come in to do the flu shots. But they did not employ them they just had them come set up a booth and do shots. The nurses were usually employed by an outside company.

 

[Jibby321]

That's correct. When I did a rotation at Sam's there was a nurse practitioner that came in on certain days to do flu shots. The pharmacist does not do immunizations. The pharmacy manager has to go to doctor's offices on his/her off day to solicit new patients also. They also make phone calls to patients to refill meds and also remind them to pick up their prescriptions.

Within the year walmart pharmacists will be giving flu shots.

The pharmacist does not usually call the patients for that stuff that is "tech work."

 

[grumps]

Many veteran pharmacists ran to Walmart to avoid immunizations. The old-schoolers think it's crazy to accept the additional liability--just being a pharmacist is headache enough, let alone a dilettante nurse practitioner on the side. There used to be a rock solid demarcation between dispensing and administering medicines. If a customer came in wanting us to bandage a cut, I was mentored into only offering the bandage but not to touch the patient. Now, hell, we can not only administer medicine, but a parenteral at that. And not just any parenteral, but an untested biological. And not just an untested biological, but an untested, DIRTY biological, contaminated with DNA/RNA fragments along with other goodies. How did we get here?

 

[Angela1234]

I can tell you it comes down to money. One night the place I was working at had needles sticking out of the biohazard container. They wanted me to give immunizations yet.