Wal-mart pharmacist question

[donny74]

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long live the king of the ring

 

[PharmerJ]

I thought it was off to Bentonville after 4 (serious) errors. I don't know the exact parameters but I understood it to be like, an error in # of refills would not count towards your vacation in AK but the wrong strength would etc. But you know better than I do!

I also thought these mistakes were self reported... maybe that is naive but I thought you had to report all mistakes.

If your partner reported you without telling you I'd just confront it. I don't blame him for reporting you. But I don't think these little agreements are good for the patient or for the pharmacist in the long run. If you are making mistakes that could harm a patient, your partner has a responsibility to try and do something about that.

Slightly off topic, how do you like working for Walmart?

 

[johnep34]

UK equivalent owned by Walmart is Asda. In UK every pharmacy group has to have a superintendent pharmacist in charge. The Asda supt is a regular poster on pharmacy-forum.co.uk. (Sorry not a link).
johnep

 

[RxMarine]

But I don't think these little agreements are good for the patient or for the pharmacist in the long run. If you are making mistakes that could harm a patient, your partner has a responsibility to try and do something about that.

You get what you pay for. Most Wal-Mart pharmacists can't speak English.

Case in point:

I knew some Walmart stores all pharmacists have very good personal relationship to each others and they have implicit agreements that they will never file online incident reports about med errors on another partner unless those mistakes are serious and patients complain.

Personally, I don't mind paying more than $4 for my Rx...this isn't slushies we're talking about here.

 

[RxMarine]

But I don't think these little agreements are good for the patient or for the pharmacist in the long run. If you are making mistakes that could harm a patient, your partner has a responsibility to try and do something about that.

You get what you pay for. Most Wal-Mart pharmacists can't speak English.

Case in point:

I knew some Walmart stores all pharmacists have very good personal relationship to each others and they have implicit agreements that they will never file online incident reports about med errors on another partner unless those mistakes are serious and patients complain.

Personally, I don't mind paying more than $4 for my Rx...this isn't slushies we're talking about here.