This past week at work had been a little crazy. On Monday and Tuesday, one tech called in sick. Then on Thursday and Friday another one called in sick. As we are already running on a tight budget as it is, missing one person can make it absolutely CRAZY at work! Plus, our daily prescription total average was up by quite a bit (up by 30-40rx's per day) this week (first of the month increase? better weather? who knows!). All of that made for a tough week for us all.
To further complicate my week, my other staff pharmacist is 66 years old and a brittle diabetic that my techs tell me is "near dialysis." I got a call Saturday morning at 8am from my district manager saying that the other pharmacist's blood pressure and blood sugars were going crazy (from stress of the week???) and that he would not be able to work the weekend. So now I guess I get to find out what being a manager is all about....no more three day weekend for me :( Since the store opened at 9a, I quickly jumped in the shower and drove to Newton.
I sure hope the other pharmacist is ok!! Hopefully this week will be less stressful for us all!!
I was actually pretty upset about having to work the weekend. I had been looking forward to my weekend off for awhile now. If you read my previous blog post, you know that we were maybe going to go to the zoo (it would have been perfect weather!!!!!!!!!!) and give Caedon his first haircut. We also had to cancel Sunday's afternoon playdate with our friends/neighbors the Kiblers and their daughter (born a couple weeks after Caedon).
We also had dinner plans on Saturday with friends/neighbors the Kanes (due with their first baby in July). That was to be at 6p at our house but since I closed the pharmacy at 6 in Newton, we had to push that back to 7 AND I had to run to Hy-Vee to buy some green beans, baked beans, and dinner rolls from their deli since there was no time for me to cook up anything during the day! Chase took care of the steaks though...and they were yummy!!!!!! Then I quickly put together a grape salad that my Aunt Lynne normally makes: grapes, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and brown sugar topping. YUMMY, and luckily quick to make. Chase loves it. Technically it has sour cream in it too, but I didn't have that on hand and it still turned out great :)
Anyway, I just really look forward to my time off with my family and would prefer time with them to being paid overtime. Sometimes it seems like we hardly see each other with our crazy work schedules! My house gets messy and I need that time to clean it up and maybe finally cook a meal or two for my hubby. Chase needed me to be home for an extended amount of time so he could catch up on his notes (he saw 16 patients in clinic on Friday!), but that didn't happen. So right now he is over at the clinic writing notes for who knows how long.
So at this point, it looks like I will be on a 9 day stretch of work unless my scheduler can get someone to cover my weekend....praying for that!!
On the plus side, I got a couple of things organized in the pharmacy this weekend. And Chase and Caedon got to play outside a lot together in the beautiful weather. Speaking of that, I didn't like it when all the patients kept telling me how nice it was outside this weekend!!! Grrrrrr....haha oh well it better be nice my next time off. OR ELSE!
I still feel like I have a lot to post regarding my new store. A quick list of some interesting things:
1.I trained the other RPh how to do a Zostavax injection (shingles shot)/billing/paperwork for last Friday, exciting to have our first patient successfully protected! We will also be doing all travel vaccines, plust the usual Flu/Pneumonia shots.
2. The Newton urgent care clinic is being investigated...I guess they had record seized and have been contacting us to see what meds their patients are on!
3.Average waiting time for "waiting rx's" down from 20-30 minutes to 13-20 minutes since I've been implementing work flow processes over 2 weeks. Hopefully it gets even better!
4. I still have no clue what I'm doing on a bunch of stuff. Oh well, I guess I'll learn!
Well I guess I'm done waiting on Chase, I will just give him a call to tell him goodnight!
Sorry you had to work on your weekend off Sara! That really stinks. Tell Henry I hope he is feeling better soon - he is the reason I became a pharmacist - LOVE him! Also glad to hear you are getting that store in shape. My mom (and most of my family) gets their prescriptions there and I know she has been very frustrated with poor customer service. I was very excited to hear you would be working there!
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