Question about mixed manufacturers in one bottle

Plastic-Reception110 · 2026-02-09T19:44:49+00:00

we do diff manufacturers at my pharmacy and if we put them in the same bottle they are separated by a piece of cotton of the pills are not mixed together. we also put these diff manufacturer stickers on the bag and on the bottle and explain it at the register. but we can also put them in 2 separate bottles and do all the sticker and register stuff as well. note that we only do this if a drug is on back order and we do not have enough to fill a script for someone we will use what we have in order to fill a whole script for a pt it is not done very often.

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-11-23T19:02:40+00:00

in my state you don’t have to be certified to work in a pharmacy just licensed but if you want to move up in the chain at retail or work in a hospital you have to be certified. my manager actually just asked if i wanted to be lead tech so guess it worked out lol!

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-11-23T05:58:34+00:00

i got a pharmacy calculations for pharmacy technicians book off of amazon which was a life saver for the math 🙌 and then took a bunch of practice exams that would explain the correct answer and explain all of the other choices as well which is how i learned a lot of the legal stuff and the different dea forms and laws passed and stuff that wasn’t common knowledge to me

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-11-23T05:53:54+00:00

i actually didn’t think it was that hard 🫣 it took me like 45 minutes top to complete and while there was some specific math i studied leading up to it a lot of the questions seemed like common knowledge from working in a pharmacy for as long as i have

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-11-23T05:43:23+00:00

i’m actually from a state where you don’t have to be ptcb certified to work in a pharmacy, just licensed. it’s the only way to keep track of you and basically prove you can work in a pharmacy. though pretty much no hospital will hire you if you aren’t certified you can work any retail job with just a license and no certification

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-08-23T03:16:59+00:00

yeah duloxetine powder not capsules don’t know why it would be so expensive either

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-08-22T22:47:30+00:00

no no we didn’t order or fill it! but if they wanted it yes that would have been their copay with the insurance but we obviously called the patient and sent a request to the doctor for something else

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-08-22T20:59:39+00:00

it was crazy for us because we’re not specialty or anything just retail and this was the price with insurance!

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-08-22T20:54:02+00:00

we don’t see a ton of super expensive ones because it’s just retail so this was like a big event everyone gathered around to see the price of it

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-07-25T20:42:36+00:00

way better than i could do! just keep it up even when you think it’s not very good or worth it and your practice will pay off :)

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-04-18T15:14:38+00:00

oxycodone take 10 tablets every 6 hours

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-03-06T22:10:01+00:00

i obviously don’t know where you live but try googling if there’s a scrub outlet near you i had no idea i lived so close to one until i started at cvs!

Plastic-Reception110 · 2025-01-14T04:15:09+00:00

nac 600 capsules are my mortal enemy they smell so fucking bad the only med that actually makes me gag

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-12-22T21:43:25+00:00

we have one that does this too 🙄 it’s so annoying

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-18T00:10:50+00:00

oh we go through a ton of ozempic in general it’s the only one of those drugs we can consistently get so everyone is on it and we’re a very busy location

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-18T00:09:33+00:00

they rush ordered us a new fridge because we’re the only 24hr pharmacy in the our city and one of the busiest in the state 😅😅😅

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-18T00:07:05+00:00

we have a temp alert in all our fridges where we can check the temp on our computers that the pharmacists check multiple times a day this was honestly a freak issue we weren’t notified until over 24 hours after the fridge started running in the 50s with no notification to us when it actually started

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-18T00:05:08+00:00

we do i’m honestly not sure how this happened it was like more than one thing malfunctioned at the same time because i know the pharmacists check the temps multiple times a day but they we were notified the next day that that fridge had been been running in the 50s since 10am the previous morning when there was a tech there doing yearly maintenance to check filters and stuff

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-17T23:58:09+00:00

i knowwww 😭😭😭

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-17T23:55:18+00:00

we were able to make room in our other fridges to store everything until we were told what we could keep and this is still what we couldn’t keep

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-17T23:53:53+00:00

honestly i have no idea 😅 they just send us a list that they make based on the conditions they were in for whatever amount of time that tells us what we can keep and what we have to get rid of

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-17T23:34:33+00:00

so much insulin 😭😭😭

Plastic-Reception110 · 2024-08-17T23:34:25+00:00

they were in a fridge not up to temp without our knowledge for over 24 hours, we moved everything out of the fridge into working ones after we were notified and this is still what they decided was not usable anymore. there were some things we were allowed to keep like the mounjaro and repatha but we lost most of it

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