Practical guidance on pharmacy coverage, pharmacist and technician careers, and running a well-staffed pharmacy — from the team at HCC Pharmacy Staffing.
There's a particular quiet that follows a pharmacist-in-charge resignation at a compounding or specialty pharmacy. Everyone keeps working. The orders keep coming. And somewhere in the back of the owner's mind is the awareness that the pharmacy's authorization to operate is tied to a person who just
Most staffing conversations at a federally qualified health center start in the wrong place. The pharmacy is short a pharmacist, so it gets treated as a scheduling problem — who can cover Tuesdays, can we shorten hours for a while, can the clinic route patients elsewhere. But an FQHC pharmacy isn't
Home-infusion pharmacy has a staffing problem that most pharmacy settings don't: the person covering for you has to be competent in an area where "figuring it out" is not an acceptable answer. Sterile compounding under USP General Chapter <797>, hazardous-drug handling under <800>, asept
A retail pharmacy that's short a pharmacist has a bad day: the queue backs up, people wait, some prescriptions go to the store down the road. A closed-door long-term-care pharmacy that's short a pharmacist has a different kind of problem, because the work isn't waiting for anyone. The cycle fill is
There's a version of this you've probably already lived: you want the hours, you just don't want those hours. Full-time pharmacist roles in the far western suburbs still tend to come as one rigid block — a fixed store, a fixed rotation, a schedule someone else built, and metrics attached to all of i
The thought usually arrives on a Tuesday: I can't keep doing it this way. Not "I hate pharmacy" — you don't spend years earning a license for a job you hate. It's the way the job has been built around you: the metrics, the understaffed afternoons, the schedule handed down from somewhere else, the fe
You've probably had the experience of accepting a pharmacy technician job on the strength of a forty-minute interview, showing up on day one, and finding out in the first week that the place is nothing like it sounded. Understaffed. A lead tech who trains nobody. A workflow held together with sticky
You finished the training. You're registered. And every posting from Boca Raton to West Palm Beach seems to want one to two years of experience for a job that is, by definition, where experience comes from. It's a genuinely frustrating loop, and it's the single most common thing new pharmacy technic
Most pharmacy technicians choose their setting by accident. You take the first job that says yes, you get good at it, and five years later you're a retail tech — not because you compared it against anything, but because that's where the door opened. Then one day you hear what a long-term care tech's
If you're a pharmacy technician in Norfolk and you've been quietly wondering whether there's flexible work in your area, a lot of experienced technicians around Hampton Roads are already living it: flexible long-term-care coverage work. Same skills you already have, a very different relationship wit
You worked hard for your pharmacist license, and stepping back from full-time work doesn't have to mean setting it down for good. Maybe you're semi-retired, maybe you've got a primary role and some open days, maybe life just doesn't fit a five-day-a-week schedule anymore. Whatever brought you here,
If you're a pharmacist in eastern Utah, you probably know the situation from both sides: a good community pharmacy needs a licensed pharmacist behind the counter every day it's open, and finding someone to cover a vacation, a sick day, or a stretch when the regular pharmacist is out isn't easy in a