Steve
Ok here's my worst locum job share I have done so far (that I can remember right now). I think I have posted it before somewhere else, and the times may differ a bit, but this is the best I can remember right now.
I was at a store that did an average 800 items a day, 75 methadone clients, and a needle ex scheme. The other pharmacist still wasn't there at 10am so I rang the agency and was told he was on his way.
At about 11.30am a security guard ran into the shop and told me a guy was having a heart attack in the barbers opposite, and asked if I could help. I thought I was just going to loosen his tie, keep him calm, that kind of thing. When I got there, a man was on the floor breathing very shallow, and going blue.
The other locum still wasn't there so I told the staff to close the shop. To cut it short, his heart stopped, and I did CPR for 10 to 15mins while the ambulance got there - this was in the middle of a big shopping arcade, so they had trouble finding the back entrance, hence the delay.
I kept him going, and when they got there the three of us (me and two paramedics) kept him going for about another 10 mins, and they eventually took him away in the ambulance.
I went back to the shop at about 12.20pm to find the locum had turned up at about 12pm. I asked why he hadn't reopened the shop, and he said he didn't like to on his own. I told him I needed a coffee and a fag after that, and he'd have to cope on his own for 10 minutes or so, and pointed out that I had been on my own all morning.
The staff told me he was really lazy, and basically liked to just serve the needle ex customers, and do nothing in between, so I told him I would look after that part of things for the afternoon, and he could check the scripts as I was shaken up after the guy in the barbers. At about 1.15pm or so he asked me if he could have his lunch. I said ok, so off he went and came back at 2.30pm! I told him I liked to eat something in the day myself, and where had he been for so long. He said he had to do his prayers (all of 10 mins or so I believe) in the back room.
For the rest of the afternoon I basically did virtually everything, as he kept making mistakes, so I put him back on the methadone and needle ex. At 5pm he asked if he could go home - the shop closes at 6.30pm. I said to him he might as well, as it didn't seem like he was even there anyway, but I think that went over his head.
I had a peak on the computer when he'd gone and he charged from 9am to 6.30pm (no time taken away for being late, or most of his lunch off the premises) and milage. He had charged about £80 more then me.
To say I was angry is putting it mildly...........
