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Pharmacy Burnout 
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Unemployment
There are a lot of uncertainties of each position at a pharmacy while following the HIPAA act. Employees can tend to do their own self-counseling with patients. However, it is illegal for anyone else but a pharmacist to provide counseling. This does cause a lot of panicky situations for workers, causing the pharmacist to lose his/her license and possibly get that worker fired or jail time.
Prescription counting is another terrifying situation in this position. Workers have to be very precise about how much medication can be dispelled to a patient. For example, if a Doctor wrote a 30 day supply prescription for a patient and a technician put more than 30 days worth of that prescription and the pharmacist wasn't able to catch it, then the patient has a full obligation to complain and once again could get both the technician and pharmacist fired.
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Customer service workers or cashiers also have a nerve-wracking job that is to hand the patient their medication. If the medication that was handed to the patient was the incorrect prescription and was, in fact, someone else medication and that patient took that medication causing them to be hospitalized or worse the blame would go on both the pharmacist and the cashier.
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Over Demand
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Technicians and customer service have a hard time paying attention to both the patient and the mass amount of phone calls.
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Due to the uprising of sickness from the past two years, written doctor prescriptions have become a problem. Pharmacies have trouble filling prescriptions, answering calls, and giving COVID/ flu shots.
The number of workers have become significantly lower due to the extended hours and mass of patients.
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Employment
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As pharmacy can be difficult, it does provide a lot of extraneous jobs such as stocking, ordering, cleaning, and delivering.
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Money
Pharmacy service range about $26,000 to $33,000 (this is the average in the United States)
As this seems almost laughable, an average fast-food worker in Kentucky gets paid about $20,000 to $24,000 a year compared pharmacy technician whose job is far more terrifying.
Pharmacist salary starts around $98,000 to $106,000 a year in Kentucky ($51/ hour).
These factors in both the pharmacy perspective and the outside work perspective clearly show there is no true balance to hard-working payments.
Technician salary is only $24,000 to $36,000 (this is the average in the United States).
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COVID
Protocols have been given to pharmacies on how to handle special orders, COVID conditions, and cleanliness even though it's rather difficult when certain supplies have been in high demand causing longer wait times.
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Pharmacy stations are required make the area a germ free environment to patient, also meaning the mask mandate is still in high effect.
Pharmacy drive-thur's is practically impossible to get through. Most drive-thur have stretched out waiting times to more than 3 hours. A lot of pharmacies have even closed drive-thurs due to the number of people.
Due to a lot of the past quarantines and sickness going around a lot of pharmacy workers have decided to leave or retire leaving a lot of positions in pharmacy that are still needing to be filled.
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