Practical guidance on pharmacy coverage, pharmacist and technician careers, and running a well-staffed pharmacy — from the team at HCC Pharmacy Staffing.
Leadership searches inside health systems and multi-site organisations fail differently from small-operator searches. They rarely fail for lack of candidates. They fail late — at offer, or at six months — because the role that was advertised was not the role that existed. Scope is the whole problem
If you are employed in chain retail and wondering about per-diem work, the underlying question is usually the same one: is this better, or does it just sound better? The honest answer is that it is a trade, and whether it is a good one depends on which half of the trade you care about. Here is the v
Miami-Dade is a long county. A pharmacist living in Homestead and a pharmacist living in Doral are both "in Miami", and an assignment that is routine for one is an unreasonable commute for the other. Add the traffic and the two are not comparable at all. That geography is the first thing a pharmacis
Ask about per-diem work in South Florida and the picture that comes to mind is usually a community pharmacy. That is the most visible kind, but it is not the whole picture. The pharmacies we staff across Miami-Dade include specialty, renal, infusion and compounding sites — and the day in one of thos
Not every pharmacist wanting work wants a job. Some want two days a week. Some want the winter months and not the summer ones. Some have stepped back from a career and would still like to keep a licence active and a hand in. Central Florida, with a retirement belt of its own around Lake and Marion c
"Per-diem pharmacist" describes how you are engaged, not what you will be doing. A relief day in an independent community pharmacy and a relief day in a closed-door long-term-care operation share a licence requirement and almost nothing else. Across Central Florida — the Orlando metro, the I-4 corri
Pharmacists relocating to Florida — or already here on a licence issued somewhere else — usually run into the same two questions in the same order. Can my existing licence travel? And is there anything I can do while I wait? This is an orientation, not a substitute for the Board. Licensure requireme
There's a particular quiet that follows a pharmacist-in-charge resignation at a compounding or specialty pharmacy. Everyone keeps working. The orders keep coming. And somewhere in the back of the owner's mind is the awareness that the pharmacy's authorization to operate is tied to a person who just
Most staffing conversations at a federally qualified health center start in the wrong place. The pharmacy is short a pharmacist, so it gets treated as a scheduling problem — who can cover Tuesdays, can we shorten hours for a while, can the clinic route patients elsewhere. But an FQHC pharmacy isn't
Home-infusion pharmacy has a staffing problem that most pharmacy settings don't: the person covering for you has to be competent in an area where "figuring it out" is not an acceptable answer. Sterile compounding under USP General Chapter <797>, hazardous-drug handling under <800>, asept
A retail pharmacy that's short a pharmacist has a bad day: the queue backs up, people wait, some prescriptions go to the store down the road. A closed-door long-term-care pharmacy that's short a pharmacist has a different kind of problem, because the work isn't waiting for anyone. The cycle fill is
There's a version of this you've probably already lived: you want the hours, you just don't want those hours. Full-time pharmacist roles in the far western suburbs still tend to come as one rigid block — a fixed store, a fixed rotation, a schedule someone else built, and metrics attached to all of i