Re: Re: Future of Retail Pharmacy and Saturation

June 20, 2011

Thank you for your input Joy RPh.

For those of you who may not know Joy is a 'resident' pharmacist of this site.

This means she " lives here " and I can count on her for input on her own

as she reads the posts on her own volition AND if I need a pharmacists

explanation or opinion I know I can ask her and count on her.

I am extremly honored and grateful to have her as a member of this site.

Joy has also taught pharmacy tech classes. She cares about technicians and

laws affecting them as well as pharmacy as a whole.

Thank you again Joy, for not only adding your input but for always being behind

the

scenes and someone I can count on.

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Founder/Owner

From: nerissafaye <nerissafaye@...>

Subject: Re: Future of Retail Pharmacy and Saturation

Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 6:16 AM

It is a similar situation here in Florida. They now have 6 pharmacy schools and

very few job postings. Most of this year's graduating students are excited to

get part-time jobs or residencies (1/3 to 1/2 pharmacist salary).

I keep saying, for pharmacy to grow in this economy, we need to do more than

fill and bill - a computer/robot can do this. We must make an impact on the

millions/billions spent on adverse drug reactions and noncompliance and use the

money saved to pay for the services. Pharmacists must step up and use the

knowledge they've been given and participate in MTM like services. Pharmacists

and techs must start informing people of the services they can access and highly

recommending patients use these services. To just hand people drugs and let

them sign away their right to speak to the pharmacist is ridiculous.

However, in Florida right now there does seem to be many pharmacy tech position

postings (in comparison to very few pharmacist postings) as we recently required

state registration for techs which is causing a shortage of qualified,

registered technicians. If someone leaves the state/profession, there is no one

coming in behind qualified to take the position. I am sure it is also

regionalized even here that areas where there is a pharmacy school they may hire

interns instead but the last time I checked www.pharmacyonesource.com there were

several hospital and retail tech jobs posted in Florida. The majority of the

pharmacist jobs were for management - another area that pharmacists don't

typically feel confident in - perhaps the schools can add more business courses

to help fill those jobs.

Joy

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