How to deal with this situation?

[Sparda29]

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So it's come to my attention that the pharmacist who is my afternoon-evening shift partner doesn't really do any work while I'm on my 1 hour lunch break. It's like I'll eliminate everything in the fax before I leave, and I come back in one hour to find that the fax is stacked with like 70 orders. Apparently she just does a few orders and is most of the time on Skype or Facetime talking to her husband and kids.

I've heard this happens when she works with other pharmacists also. The problem is the person who told me this is the pharmacy technician. Right now, this pharmacy technician is in the doghouse with the director because he calls out a lot and is late most of the time. I don't have a problem with the lateness because this technician works crazy hard while he is here. It's happened a lot more since the hurricane since his area was pretty bad hit and his apartment building was knocked out of power, gas, water for a few days.

 

[pharmasaur]

Why don't you "accidently" walk back in during your 1 hr lunch break because you "forgot" something somewhere and you "accidently" catch her on skype with her family and then complain

 

[owlegrad]

Why not just ask why the faxes backed up?

 

[Sparda29]

Why not just ask why the faxes backed up?

I do, and every time the answer is "it got crazy while you were gone". This particular pharmacist has been a pharmacist for about 10 years but she hasn't worked in the inpatient setting since her APPEs. Sometimes I see her on Lexicomp/Micromedex for almost every order and looking up lab values for every patient.

 

[owlegrad]

I do, and every time the answer is "it got crazy while you were gone".

Facebook can get like that, right?

 

[Sparda29]

Facebook can get like that, right?

Yeah pretty much. It ****ing sucks that I was hired on as the temp for this shift and she was hired as the permanent for this shift, simply because she was a pharmacy manager at a retail place, yet all the time, she's the one asking me questions about things. (One of the last pharmacists who worked this shift outright quit, and the other one is on medical leave, hopefully never coming back for my benefit).

 

[rxlea]

Your institution doesn't track productivity?

 

[Sparda29]

Your institution doesn't track productivity?

I think there is some report that the DOP can run that shows the amount of orders entered by each pharmacist. I never really talk to him much, other than a hi/bye when he comes in and walks by me at the workstation. He hasn't said anything to me about this, and nothing to her either.

The issue is that by 5PM, the clinical pharmacist and the DOP are out the door. So then it's just me, her, and the tech + runner. I go for dinner break at 630ish and we're pretty much caught up on the orders and get back around 730ish and we're being overrun.