My first Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) was at Walmart Pharmacy, in Quincy, Florida, under the directorship of Dr. Sharonda McNeil, Pharmacy Manager and Dr. Amr Asker, Staff Pharmacist. I did my rotation at this location for a total of three Thursdays I’ve been working in retail for almost three years so I am pretty familiar with how things flow. I just mainly needed to learn the process of filling that Walmart Pharmacy follows.
Walmart Pharmacy is an organization who 's building blocks of success are Affordability and Accessibility. For over 30 years, these are the two things that they have taken pride in. Offering lower prescription costs, counseling patients and offering immunizations are the ways in which this pharmacy …show more content…
Asker, the Staff Pharmacist. He also explained to me how workflow was followed and how the verification process worked. My role on day 1 consisted mainly consisted of filling prescriptions. The process for filling prescriptions was very time consuming and I honestly was not the biggest fan of it. It consisted of using a handheld device that processes all prescriptions that comes through Connexus, which is the Walmart pharmacy software. You are required to scan a bag and the prescriptions that are associated with that bag will appear on the screen. Next you are to tap on the medication, then go to the shelf and pull that drug. Once you retrieve the drug, you scan it with the handheld device, then scan the printer and a label will print out. If there are multiple medications, this process has to be followed for each …show more content…
McNeil, the pharmacy manager, and I interviewed when the flow of things was slow. She also gave me an in depth explanation about Walmart pharmacy as a whole. My role consisted of filling prescriptions on this day as well. During the down time, I walked through the pharmacy to familiarize myself with the fast-movers and the slow-movers, so I could be more efficient during the busy spells.
On day 3, I started with my normal routine of filling prescriptions, then after some time passed, I mentioned to the pharmacist that I was required to write a paper about my experience and that I needed more material to write about than filling. As a result, I was allowed to help counsel a patient on a medication and that was exciting. I was familiar with that medication so telling the patient about how to take it and the side effects came natural to me.
The Walmart pharmacy staff was very friendly and they were all very approachable whenever I had a question about the location of a medication or about the handheld device. An example of when we worked effectively as a unit was during those busy spells when multiple prescriptions were either dropped off or e-scribed and we collectively got them typed in, filled, verified and bagged. I’m very efficient and fast with filling prescriptions so I believe that I was beneficial to the team in that aspect of the filling
Walmart Pharmacy is an organization who 's building blocks of success are Affordability and Accessibility. For over 30 years, these are the two things that they have taken pride in. Offering lower prescription costs, counseling patients and offering immunizations are the ways in which this pharmacy …show more content…
Asker, the Staff Pharmacist. He also explained to me how workflow was followed and how the verification process worked. My role on day 1 consisted mainly consisted of filling prescriptions. The process for filling prescriptions was very time consuming and I honestly was not the biggest fan of it. It consisted of using a handheld device that processes all prescriptions that comes through Connexus, which is the Walmart pharmacy software. You are required to scan a bag and the prescriptions that are associated with that bag will appear on the screen. Next you are to tap on the medication, then go to the shelf and pull that drug. Once you retrieve the drug, you scan it with the handheld device, then scan the printer and a label will print out. If there are multiple medications, this process has to be followed for each …show more content…
McNeil, the pharmacy manager, and I interviewed when the flow of things was slow. She also gave me an in depth explanation about Walmart pharmacy as a whole. My role consisted of filling prescriptions on this day as well. During the down time, I walked through the pharmacy to familiarize myself with the fast-movers and the slow-movers, so I could be more efficient during the busy spells.
On day 3, I started with my normal routine of filling prescriptions, then after some time passed, I mentioned to the pharmacist that I was required to write a paper about my experience and that I needed more material to write about than filling. As a result, I was allowed to help counsel a patient on a medication and that was exciting. I was familiar with that medication so telling the patient about how to take it and the side effects came natural to me.
The Walmart pharmacy staff was very friendly and they were all very approachable whenever I had a question about the location of a medication or about the handheld device. An example of when we worked effectively as a unit was during those busy spells when multiple prescriptions were either dropped off or e-scribed and we collectively got them typed in, filled, verified and bagged. I’m very efficient and fast with filling prescriptions so I believe that I was beneficial to the team in that aspect of the filling