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Originally Posted by admin  Hi Locums
I'm finding that my locum work is drying up a bit due to cheaper foreign pharmacists. Obviously thats not good news for any of us, but I have more concerns then money.
I was working with one of these people the other day. Attempting to discuss possible problems we are often faced with, I asked a few questions. This is the list of topics I tried to discuss with the person, and found thay had no knowledge of any of the following: -
How various contraceptive pills work
How they work/what are statins used for
What is prochloperazine used for
What is a persons autonomic nervous system
How do beta blockers work - do they affect asthma
After this lot I just gave up. So are these people seriously lacking in drug training or knowledge? Are they watering down the skill mix of pharmacy?
Or can you do our job and not even need to know these things???  |
Welcome to the future Admin
If the big guns & DOH have it their way , techs will be in charge and guess what , they probably won't be able to answer the questions either.
Its up to the society/prospective college to ensure that sub-standard pharmacists do not work in our pharmacies...but sub-standard pharmacists come in all shapes and sizes ,EU trained,British trained /overseas trained....seen them all in my 15+ years on register
PS* I don't consider myself to be" a know it all" but in this day and age pharmacists/techs can't afford to be bog standard or below!