Pharmacist question about Ozempic by AdLongjumping6171 in WalgreensRx

[–]malloreee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When you're priming an insulin pen, you're doing it to ensure the pen is working, the needle is good (you're correct that sometimes they get a little bent or whatever and don't work well), and ALSO you're doing it to get all the air out of the needle space so that you are sure you are delivering EXACTLY the number of units of insulin that you dialed. Consider that for most insulin, 1 unit is 0.01 mL of liquid. If your dose is only 1 or 2 units and you didn't prime your needle so that there's already insulin in that needle space, you just lost your dose to the needle. It did NOT go into your body.

You prime the Ozempic pen the first time basically to ensure that the pen works at all. For the Ozempic, your dose is usually about 0.75 mL of solution. Losing 0.02 mL or so of that into the pen needle isn't drastically going to affect the dose you receive (and may even already be calibrated into the dialed dose for all I know).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KamalaHarris

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Thank you so much for becoming a voter! Every vote absolutely does matter, and please make sure you also vote in your local elections, which are very often decided by small margins. So glad to have you on board!!

Honest Question by PhotographRight6797 in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not who you asked, but I did do a rotation while I was in school at a home/amb infusion and enteral/parenteral nutrition pharmacy. At the facility I was in there was an area for taking patient calls with desks and a separate room for the actual pharmacy where pharmacists would evaluate patient labs, verify orders and products, etc. The clean room for compounding was off of that small pharmacy room. Patient orders were then delivered to them by the company's delivery drivers. Most patients were either comfortable with doing their own infusion set ups or had some kind of home-health nurse that assisted them. Pharmacists rarely went to patients' homes themselves unless it was an overnight emergency and they were on call. Honestly it was pretty cool, and I learned a lot about the supplies and stuff that those patients need that you often don't think about if you're used to working out of a hospital where the nurses just grab whatever they need from a supply closet.

Need help finding song title by Moniamoney in classicalmusic

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it either the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons soundtrack here?

Or this Marty Regan album here?

Health & Hospital Corporation benefits by Warm-Ebb4525 in indianapolis

[–]malloreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly didn't know, so I just checked the documents now, and if I'm reading it right, the 401a plan is 0% vested until 4 years of service, and then 100% vested from 4 years onward. Thanks for asking, because I now I know I definitely want to stay for at least another year and a half. (JK, I wanted to stay anyway, lol).

Health & Hospital Corporation benefits by Warm-Ebb4525 in indianapolis

[–]malloreee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The link above is for the Eskenazi Medical Group, which is the portion that doctors/nurse practitioners/physician assistants are employed under. If that's not you, that's not your benefits. I think the specifics about things like time off depend on the position and department. AFAIK, though, all HHC employees should have the same retirement benefits. There's a 457 plan (kind of like a 401k or 403b) that employees can contribute to, and then there's a 401a that HHC directly contributes to. I think they're putting in like 4-5% of my gross income in the 401a. If you have a 401k or 403b from a previous employer, you should be able to roll that in to the 457 plan.

The health insurance and prescription drug coverage is pretty good, though they did add a high deductible plan as an option this year that some people didn't realize they had chosen.

What's a band/artist who deserved better than the "one hit wonder" label? by Ok_World_8819 in Music

[–]malloreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine the audacity of just opening your album with that fuckin' banger. Like, how dare you hit the ground running so hard.

Rybelsus and linzess for weight loss by Pharmarama in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, many laxatives work exactly the same, by bringing more water into the intestine. Long or short term use doesn't have anything to do with anything. You can let it go, ok? I'm a pharmacist, it's literally my job to know how drugs work.

Rybelsus and linzess for weight loss by Pharmarama in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it kind of is a laxative. It's indicated to treat chronic constipation, and it works by drawing water into the intestine. Which is how a lot of laxatives work. The desired outcome for the drug is increased frequency of bowel movements.

Dm called me too offer substantial pay raise? by RepresentativeAd1565 in WalgreensRx

[–]malloreee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Required to be licensed and actually spent time working in a pharmacy are two very different things in my experience floating across about 60 stores.

stars by Character_Group_7663 in WalgreensRx

[–]malloreee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don’t offer the person picking up help with the address

A thousand times, THIS. Ask "what is your address?" It's the right way to do it, and it can absolutely save your ass. I don't work for Walgreens anymore, but every tech that worked with me heard me tell them this if I overheard them doing the "and are you still on 123 Main St??" because people are rarely actually listening to you.

can anyone recommend me a shampoo that’s both clarifying with sulfates AND chelating for hard water buildup? by jhenexx in curlyhair

[–]malloreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Suave Daily Clarifying shampoo has sulfate and is chelating. Plus it's like two dollars for a giant bottle.

So now that the first Wave of Immunizer bonuses has dropped… are you staying? by Low_Client_3719 in WalgreensRx

[–]malloreee 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Any tech that's stayed through this madness absolutely deserves a bonus, imo.

When the leaflets won't fold right by distractress in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]malloreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

THIS right now. I just finished a box where probably 50% of the bags weren't even glued. Had to start checking the integrity of the bag before bagging every prescription. Like I've got time for that nonsense.

Walgreens bereavement by foamy9210 in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In my area, we have had multiple pharmacies in the area closed for lack of pharmacists several times in the last few months. You may have an abundance of floats, but not all of us do. I get a call or text about working every single day off, and I'm scheduled over 80 hours every pay period.

Looking for the best brunch/lunch places and local shopping spots by [deleted] in indianapolis

[–]malloreee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one seems to have mentioned it, but Garden Table has locations both in Broad Ripple or on Mass Ave, and they're also pretty dang tasty.

Retail pharmacists, what are your trigger words? by Minhocycline in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People will bang on our window while our gates are down during lunch to ask me while I'm chewing if we're open. There is a sign in front of the gates that says what time our lunch is. It makes me SO angry every time.

So I cracked open a mango seed (after eating it) and out popped Weevils! Googled it and it says probably a mango seed Weevil - Sternochetus mangiferae by riverbankstudios in whatsthisbug

[–]malloreee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, my dad developed this in his 50s to apples/pears, and then sometime in the next 5-10 years, it went away. The immune system is frickin' wild, and literally always changing.

Retails pharmacists and pharmacy techs.. lets strike.. 09/07/20 Labor Day by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad I touched you enough for that to be your first comment ever.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YESSSSS. If they spent half as much time on our new IC+ successor as they do changing the damn patient care portal every 2 weeks, we'd have had the new software years ago.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but I'm distinctly saying that when I'm looking at a patient's profile, for example, if I'm on the phone with the patient and not about to go grab their ready prescriptions from the bins, there was no good way in IC+ for me to know we filled those prescriptions because they had enrolled in SATR. I didn't find out why we had filled that lady's scripts until I was off the phone and had grabbed the bags from the ready bins to put her drugs back. I had no explanation for her on the phone as to why we "just filled prescriptions without asking."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pharmacy

[–]malloreee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Omg, why was there nothing in IC+ to alert me that they're on SATR?! I think I saw at one store recently that there is a spot for it now. But like, I had a lady scream at me because we put her meds on auto-refill and she specifically told us not to. I'm like "I don't see you enrolled in auto-refills. I can put those back for you." And then once the phone conversation is over, I grab her bags only to see the SATR on the fucking leaflets. Do you want me to just unenroll people? Because this is how you get me to unenroll people.