Question for those who have worked at CVS before?

[FenderBender]

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How are the pharmacy techs there in general? Are they well-trained? Do they handle all the insurance problems?

 

[Sparda29]

Usually depends on the pharmacists who trained them at CVS. From what I have seen so far with CVS, they prefer to hire inexperienced people and train them into being techs the "cvs way".

 

[nnguyenc]

you'll usually have 1 or 2 experienced techs with 2+ years experience


others are usually new


very high turnover rate due low pay

 

[Sparda29]

My store is about to go live for RxConnect, ****! I was hoping they would roll all the stores back to Rx2000.

 

[FenderBender]

Usually depends on the pharmacists who trained them at CVS. From what I have seen so far with CVS, they prefer to hire inexperienced people and train them into being techs the "cvs way".

So they expect newly graduated pharmacists to teach the techs even though the pharmacist is new to the system? 😕

 

[DASicari]

The technicians in training have training classes to attend before even setting foot into the pharmacy. They shouldn't be assigned to a station such as drop-off or production unless they have completed the appropriate training with the pharmacy trainer.

 

[Dezixn]

My store is about to go live for RxConnect, ****! I was hoping they would roll all the stores back to Rx2000.

Lol yeah right, it will probably get pushed back again 😀

So they expect newly graduated pharmacists to teach the techs even though the pharmacist is new to the system? 😕

No. That's so dumb even CVS wouldn't do it. We have a guy who just finished his P4 year and is about to be a pharmacist that we are training. By "we" I mean everyone at my store but me lol.

The technicians in training have training classes to attend before even setting foot into the pharmacy. They shouldn't be assigned to a station such as drop-off or production unless they have completed the appropriate training with the pharmacy trainer.

I was hired with no experience and yes there is training... But for the most part it was meh and I learned almost everything on the job.

 

[FenderBender]

Another question... how would you feel if you were the only pharmacist working in a store that averaged 400-500 scripts per day?

 

[Doctor M]

Another question... how would you feel if you were the only pharmacist working in a store that averaged 400-500 scripts per day?

It felt horrible...It sucked...i cannot explain it any other way...