Many Circumstances Occur That Would Require A Pharmacy To Use Temporary Staffing Services

Throughout the past 20 plus years of providing Pharmacy Staffing Services to our client pharmacies, we compiled ten of the most common reasons our client’s pharmacies have called upon our StaffRx Services to cover temporary, or ongoing, staffing needs.

Top 10 Reasons Pharmacies Need Temporary Staffing Coverage

1. A Pharmacy Needs Short-Term Staffing Coverage Until They Can Hire A Pharmacy Professional

2. The Pharmacy Has a Staff Member on Medical Leave or FMLA and Needs Coverage Until Their Return

3. There are Difficult-to-Fill Shifts The Current Pharmacy Staff Cannot Fill For a Period of Time

4. The Regular Pharmacy Staff is at Risk For Burnout and Would Benefit From Temporary Coverage So They Could Enjoy Downtime

   • Great times for this type of temporary coverage would be during weekends, around the holidays, and on the holidays

5. A Pharmacy is Looking to “Try Out” a Director of Pharmacy (DOP), Pharmacy Manager, Pharmacist, or Pharmacy Technician Before Permanently Hiring Them

   • This is often seen advertised a temp-to-perm position

6. Pharmacy Staff Members Have Vacation Time Planned and The Pharmacy Needs Temporary Coverage

7. The Pharmacy is Transitioning to a New Computer System and Current Pharmacy Staff Needs Devoted Training Time for it, and Temporary Pharmacy Staffing is Needed to Provide Relief

8. Pharmacies That Are Moving Physical Locations Can Benefit From Temporary Pharmacy Staffing to Assist and Provide Extra Staff Where Needed

9. DOPs Need Admin Days or to Meet Other Managers About Their Pharmacy’s Needs. Temporary DOP Staffing Cover The Pharmacy Director When These Needs Arise

10. Emergency Situations

    • Emergencies happen and that’s why it is essential for health systems, hospitals, and all pharmacy types to have a trusted pharmacy staffing partner to bail them out. Although listed at #10, emergency situations can also account for last-minute staffing holes in a pharmacy’s schedule. We are proud to fill all staffing needs our clients have and there’s also something special about coming through when we are needed last minute - it truly speaks to the Indispensable pharmacy professionals that make up our staffing team.

Our clients do not always require our pharmacy staffing services and yet we are honored to be there when they do. Life throws us all curveballs personally and professionally. It is best to know where to turn to when those curveballs hit professionally within our pharmacy and there is a need for contingent directors of pharmacy, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, or any pharmacy professionals.

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