Anyone a Pharmacist?

[Saskatchewan17]

Hey I have a school career project to do and my chosen career was pharmacy. Is anyone out there a pharmacist? If so I'd like to just PM you a couple of easy, really general questions for the "interview" part of the project... they are:

1.) How many hours per day and week on average would you work?
2.) Is traveling required?
3.) What is the atmosphere of your work environment?
4.) What is the dress code?
5.) What computer and people skills are needed?

I would also need a name and e-mail adress (or I guess I could just use forum and forum name).

Kthnxbye!

 

[Saskatchewan17]

I don't get it? I'm just posting a question because I know some people on here are EMTs... and some are in other medical related fields... I just was wondering that's all.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

I'm not a pharmacist, but I work with Aurora Pharmacies.. and this as basically the short version. If you need more info, lemme know. Email is this SN @ gmail.com


1.) How many hours per day and week on average would you work? 40
2.) Is traveling required? only for float pharmacists (similar to temps sorta), managing pharmacists stay at one store usually
3.) What is the atmosphere of your work environment? fairly relaxed,
4.) What is the dress code? business casual, plus smocks, loosely enforced
5.) What computer and people skills are needed? working with our pharmacy (filling, billing, etc) and point of sale computer systems, average customer relations... nothing really outside the average cashier job, plus the consultation and occasional strange questions.

Carl

 

[Saskatchewan17]

I'm not a pharmacist, but I work with Aurora Pharmacies.. and this as basically the short version. If you need more info, lemme know. Email is this SN @ gmail.com


1.) How many hours per day and week on average would you work? 40
2.) Is traveling required? only for float pharmacists (similar to temps sorta), managing pharmacists stay at one store usually
3.) What is the atmosphere of your work environment? fairly relaxed,
4.) What is the dress code? business casual, plus smocks, loosely enforced
5.) What computer and people skills are needed? working with our pharmacy (filling, billing, etc) and point of sale computer systems, average customer relations... nothing really outside the average cashier job, plus the consultation and occasional strange questions.

Carl

You're awesome! Thanks a lot man!

 

[Wagonbacker9]

no problem... like I said if you want more detail, feel free.

 

[habeansha]

i'm not sure if u still need info or not, but i hardly come on here

im a pharmacy student and am currently interning at a retail pharmacy if u need a different point of view

pm me if u need info, i hardly check the forums

 

[mofoaka]

i'm a pharmacist..

1.) How many hours per day and week on average would you work? 40-42 hours a week
2.) Is traveling required? yes for floating pharmacist and no for pharmacist in charge (manager of pharmacy)
3.) What is the atmosphere of your work environment? depending on the pharmacy/ business..if the pharmacy is grocery store based, its quick relaxed. if its a walgreens or CVS its quite stressful. also depends on the genre of customers that come in. walgreen and CVS pharmacist should get more respect as i've interned for them as well. they dont get enough technicians to help.
4.) What is the dress code? again, this depends on the company. at target i dress with red polo and khaki's, CVS pharmacist require some business casual. men are required ties i believe in walgreens and CVS

5.) What computer and people skills are needed?computer skills.. you need some.. you need to be able to work the computer system; however every company has a different computer system. walgreens has one of the most automated computer systems. where others may be very primative.

a retail pharmacist needs a lot of communication/ people skill. this is still a business that is being run and happy customers/patients are returning patrons.

another side of pharmacy is clinical institutional pharmacy. this setting doesn't require a lot of patient interaction like retail pharmacy. these pharmacist work in a team of healthcare professionals such as Doctors, dietitians, nurses. these pharmacist are specialized in different fields of medicine such as diabetes, critical care, ER, etc. environment depends on the setting really..

i hope that helped..

 

[whitealexander]

1.) How many hours per day and week on average would you work?
2.) Is traveling required?
3.) What is the atmosphere of your work environment?
4.) What is the dress code?
5.) What computer and people skills are needed?

6 hours a day
yes
room temperature to cold
clean white dress
know spreadsheets

 

[Kain]

Does a street pharmacist count?