Pharmacy Benefit Management

or completed a vocational training program as a pharmacy technician, your education is what gives you the knowledge and experience to get a great job in a pharmacy. When writing a resume education section, highlight your individual education experiences and certifications to let employers know that you have the skills and knowledge necessary for the job. What to Include in a Pharmacy Technician Resume Education Section Pharmacies look for pharmacy technicians with great customer service,…

Drug shortages are almost always initiated by a failure in quality management. In 2011 56% of the sterile injectable drug shortages were directly caused by quality concerns (Woodcock, Wosinska, 2012). Some sterile injectable drug shortages are caused when production issues cause a decrease in supply for precursor materials…

Resources • Generally, CVS Health is greatly admired within the corporate world (“The world’s most,” 2018). However, they need to raise their credibility in online pharmacy services to remain at the forefront of innovation within the industry. For instance, Walgreens offers a confidential pharmacy chat service, whereas CVS lacks in this resource. • CVS identified the increased labor costs and their needs for more employees as a potential threat to their “stability and operational efficiency”…

During my 3 years of pharmacy school, my perspective of pharmacist and future path has been changed many times. Before entering to the Pharmacy school, I did not deeply think about what kind of pharmacist I wanted to be. Definitely, IPPEs during the Pharmacy school years help me to navigate which field I have interest in. Also, many classes and research project gave me some ideas and helped to find my interests. As I learned and experienced more in the pharmacy field, my expectation and my…

I went to 3 different pharmacies to see if they would accept me to do my 16 hours. The pharmacies I went to apply to are Shoppers Drug Mart located in Eglinton Square Shopping Centre, Shoppers Drug mart in parkway mall and Walmart Scarborough West Supercentre. The reason why I didn’t get accepted because they had already volunteers. I didn’t have much challenge in choosing the pharmacy to do my placement. There were about four pharmacy stores in the area that lived in. I did my 16 hours at…

understand their individual roles and how they work together and this will certainly benefit me when I become a pharmacist. Moreover, because I have experience working in a laboratory, I know how to use diverse instruments, how to run different specimens, and how to interpret the results. These are the very basics of science. Already possessing these skills and this knowledge will give me an advantage when I study pharmacy, especially when it comes to laboratory work. As a medical…

The most important benefit of pharmaceutical drugs is the fact that it helps enhance one’s health. There have been great health outcomes from using the drugs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2012), the pharmaceutical industry has helped to develop and produce products that help treat a variety of diseases in which saving millions of lives and helping people suffering from diseases and illnesses to recover and lead more productive lives. In order to get these drugs to be sold to…

Introduction In the year of 2004, 2.5 billion dollars of annual sales hit the blockbuster market on a pharmaceutical drug named Vioxx (Rofecoxib), which thousands of physicians prescribed to their patients worldwide (Medscape Medical News, 2004; Topol, 2004). The drug has shown an increase in heart attacks and strokes with suspiciousness to why leaders did not act earlier to withdraw the pharmaceutical drug from the market timely (Topol, 2004). The leaders involved were faced with more than a…

focuses only on Confederate pharmacies; Smith focuses on Union laboratories; Evans’ book offers little historical analysis and doesn’t place pharmaceutical care in a larger context of the time, despite its interesting and unique point of view; and Hasegawa’s essay serves as a summary of past work and an outline for future work. Michael A. Flannery’s book, Civil War Pharmacy, attempts to escape and outperform the previous historical narratives by assessing the evolution of pharmacy during the war…

Some aspects of pharmacy has been, constant- unchanged over a long time period of time. The first college of pharmacy in the United States was founded in 1821 as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Many colleges followed after. No information was found about the establishment of the first pharmacy school in Mexico. Currently, there is eleven pharmacy schools in California and one-hundred thirty nine pharmacy schools in the United States. In Mexico, there is only four pharmacy schools. The…