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Originally Posted by the.cure  Hey, I'm new here.. I'm a seventeen year old student.
I work in a (well known  ) pharmacy part-time. I've done the healthcare assistant course and I'm starting a dispensary assistant course soon. I love my job so much I'm going to take pharmacy at uni next year.
My question; The pharmacy is very busy and VERY short staffed. Oe of the pharmacists I work with looks so stressed out at the minute. She is a great pharmacist but she has no help (no dispenser)..
All I do is give her the unfilled scripts and hand out them to customers... and file prescriptions. What else can I do to help? I know it isn't my place to interfere, I am just shop assistant, but am really worried about her. I wish I was qualified to help more and make her job easier (and mine less stressed from customers getting angry)
Any tips for shop staff to make your job easier? |
how close are you to starting your dispensing assistant course? will it be within 3 months? If thats the case and you're simply waiting for the next intake then i think you may be legally allowed to help out in the dispensary (or does that 3 month rule only apply to counter assistant courses? I'm not 100% on that one - anyone know?).
But as solly quite rightly pointed out the pharmacist should be making louder noises about the need for new staff to be taken on - if it's a busy branch and there's no dispensers then sooner or later something bad will happen - most pharmacists are good at multi-tasking but even the best of us can get distracted at a critical moment...