Some employees at CVS Health Corp and Walgreens Boots Alliance's U.S. pharmacies launched a three-day walkout starting Monday to get the companies to improve working conditions and recruit more people, among other issues.
And me, a hospice nurse, waiting on hold on the phone for 20-30 minutes to see if any of those people can tell me if they have any Roxanol in stock for my patient actively dying of bone cancer.
Their stores a grim these days.
One overworked kid doing everything non-pharmacy. A pharmacist. Maybe a pharm tech.
That’s it.
3 max people on payroll at any given time.
And me, a hospice nurse, waiting on hold on the phone for 20-30 minutes to see if any of those people can tell me if they have any Roxanol in stock for my patient actively dying of bone cancer.
Our closest store is exactly like that and the staff found out a week or so that the location is going to be closing in like a month.