Opening a new, independent pharmacy can be exciting. Reinventing your current pharmacy can be equally thrilling. However, the time and energy – and cash – these projects require can be…
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Tackling Burnout in the Pharmacy
With a patient waiting at the pharmacy counter, another on hold, and a backlog of administrative work on the desk, a retail pharmacy can be an overwhelming workplace on the…
Cultivating Your Leadership Style
Of all the tasks involved in running or managing a pharmacy, leadership often gets the short stick. You won’t find many pharmacy CE courses on “cultivating an effective leadership style”…
Modern Marketing with QR Codes
By now, most of your patients can immediately recognize a QR, or Quick Response, code. “How I used to describe it to my mother was a pretty little black and…
Profitable Expansion with Remote Delivery Kiosks
As a federally qualified health center serving patients from 10 clinics over a 25-mile radius of southern Illinois, Shawnee Health Center Pharmacy needed a way to get prescriptions to patients…
Ask These Questions Before Taking on a Business Partner
Being the sole owner of an independent pharmacy is a lot of pressure. All the financial, management, and operations decisions come back to you. Working with a business partner is…
What Is Patient Education Worth?
Healthcare is confusing, especially for patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital or diagnosed with a chronic disease. Because pharmacists are the healthcare professionals that patients see most…
Pharmacist-Prescribed Contraception: Your Questions Answered
There are 73 million women of reproductive age in the United States, and 14 percent of them use oral birth control pills. Hormonal contraception is so commonplace that many states…
12 Communication Mistakes Sabotaging Your Credibility
Your communication style sets the tone for your pharmacy as a workplace. You can have an airtight workflow setup and thorough standard operating procedures, but if you have poor personal…
What Is a Group Purchasing Organization?
A pharmacy group purchasing organization bundles together multiple independent pharmacies to give them more buying power and leverage than they’d each have as a single entity.
How Well Do You Know Your Prime Vendor Agreement?
Most prime vendor agreements are 30 pages or more, and they are stuffed with jargon and complicated incentive structures that make the average independent pharmacist’s eyes glaze over.
Should you Finance with a Credit Union?
Opening a new, independent pharmacy can be exciting. Reinventing your current pharmacy can be equally thrilling. However, the time and energy – and cash – these projects require can be…
Tackling Burnout in the Pharmacy
With a patient waiting at the pharmacy counter, another on hold, and a backlog of administrative work on the desk, a retail pharmacy can be an overwhelming workplace on the…
Cultivating Your Leadership Style
Of all the tasks involved in running or managing a pharmacy, leadership often gets the short stick. You won’t find many pharmacy CE courses on “cultivating an effective leadership style”…
Modern Marketing with QR Codes
By now, most of your patients can immediately recognize a QR, or Quick Response, code. “How I used to describe it to my mother was a pretty little black and…
Profitable Expansion with Remote Delivery Kiosks
As a federally qualified health center serving patients from 10 clinics over a 25-mile radius of southern Illinois, Shawnee Health Center Pharmacy needed a way to get prescriptions to patients…
Ask These Questions Before Taking on a Business Partner
Being the sole owner of an independent pharmacy is a lot of pressure. All the financial, management, and operations decisions come back to you. Working with a business partner is…
What Is Patient Education Worth?
Healthcare is confusing, especially for patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital or diagnosed with a chronic disease. Because pharmacists are the healthcare professionals that patients see most…
Pharmacist-Prescribed Contraception: Your Questions Answered
There are 73 million women of reproductive age in the United States, and 14 percent of them use oral birth control pills. Hormonal contraception is so commonplace that many states…
12 Communication Mistakes Sabotaging Your Credibility
Your communication style sets the tone for your pharmacy as a workplace. You can have an airtight workflow setup and thorough standard operating procedures, but if you have poor personal…
What Is a Group Purchasing Organization?
A pharmacy group purchasing organization bundles together multiple independent pharmacies to give them more buying power and leverage than they’d each have as a single entity.
How Well Do You Know Your Prime Vendor Agreement?
Most prime vendor agreements are 30 pages or more, and they are stuffed with jargon and complicated incentive structures that make the average independent pharmacist’s eyes glaze over.