I thought a retail APPE was one of the four that everyone, no matter what school they come from is required to complete. Maybe my info is wrong but I don't think you are going to have much luck with that.
That is what I suspect the answer is going to be. I wish they would just look at your work history, see if you ever interned in a retail place, and that's that. From what I've heard from some of my friends, most of the retail places that we have contracts with, have the interns working like crazy. Pretty much typing, counting all day, minimal patient interaction.
Apparently one CVS threatened a student because the student refused to sign off on the PCI call list. (The preceptor never made the PCI calls, and basically wanted the student to sign that the student made the calls.) That resulted in our school's director giving a very stern reprimand to the preceptor, so at least our school has our back.
Also have been hearing about techs who try to get the interns to do their jobs for them and/or preceptors giving techs the day off because the student is there. When will these people realize that we are not free labor or a mechanism to reduce your tech hours?
I'm gonna try to get my IPPE Community site for my APPE Community if I have to do it. They had minimal amounts of counting and filling but they always had HIV and other ID outpatient cases for me to go through.
About 85% of the time that I'm at my hospital site, I'm working on projects and doing patient cases and interventions, drug information consults, etc. Otherwise, I just do some labeling IVs and PO orders in the morning, make some IVs, and that's all for helping out the staff.
