5 Roads into Loving Your Retail Pharmacy Career PART 5 

Special Guest Ron Snow, Manager, Professional & College Relations CVS Health 

The FINAL CHAPTER in the series, PART 5: 

Play nice with others – This is a combo of all the 4 previous steps, but ask yourself how you and your pharmacy business can play nicely with others. Is there a visiting nurse service you could partner with in the community? Is there a way you could organize a community task force for disaster relief if, God forbid, something happens to your community?

What about a tox away day? Can you set up a phone tree with other pharmacists to prevent theft and diversion in pharmacy? What can you do with strong non profits in your area that would help the community? Can you bring the community IN to your pharmacy to hang out and be a spot of joy and hope for your neighborhood, instead of another icky task they have to check off of their list? Ask yourself one more time what your strengths are, and how you can add them to your world around you to create a better retail pharmacy world. Maybe that’s through a broader, interprofessional pathway that could lead you to feeling FANTASTIC about your career of pharmacy.

After all, you picked a great profession! The sky is the limit….!

The article for all parts of the series: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-roads-loving-your-retail-pharmacy-career-erin-l-?trk=mp-reader-card

Follow Ron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/snowmanrph

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5 Roads into Loving Your Retail Pharmacy Career PART 5&nbsp;
Special Guest Ron Snow, Manager, Professional &amp; College Relations CVS Health&nbsp;
The FINAL CHAPTER in the series, PART 5:&nbsp;
Play nice with others &ndash; This is a combo of all the 4 previous steps, but ask yourself how you and your pharmacy business can play nicely with others. Is there a visiting nurse service you could partner with in the community? Is there a way you could organize a community task force for disaster relief if, God forbid, something happens to your community?
What about a tox away day? Can you set up a phone tree with other pharmacists to prevent theft and diversion in pharmacy? What can you do with strong non profits in your area that would help the community? Can you bring the community IN to your pharmacy to hang out and be a spot of joy and hope for your neighborhood, instead of another icky task they have to check off of their list? Ask yourself one more time what your strengths are, and how you can add them to your world around you to create a better retail pharmacy world. Maybe that&rsquo;s through a broader, interprofessional pathway that could lead you to feeling FANTASTIC about your career of pharmacy.
After all, you picked a great profession! The sky is the limit&hellip;.!
The article for all parts of the series:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-roads-loving-your-retail-pharmacy-career-erin-l-?trk=mp-reader-card">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-roads-loving-your-retail-pharmacy-career-erin-l-?trk=mp-reader-card</a>
Follow Ron on&nbsp;Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/snowmanrph">https://twitter.com/snowmanrph</a>
Sponsored by CVS Health Careers
Click here:&nbsp;<a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/">https://jobs.cvshealth.com/</a>

In March of 2009, Todd S. Eury, launched the Pharmacy Podcast Show. Over the years, the Pharmacy Podcast has accumulated over 75,000+ listeners and subscribers and is the most popular and downloaded podcast about the Pharmacy Industry.

The Pharmacy Podcast Show transformed into the Pharmacy Podcast Network (PPN) in 2014 and will continue to collect the thought leading interviews with some of the most brilliant minds in Pharmacy with over 30 co-hosts. The PPN is a Digital Health Publication and Content Developing partner to the Pharmaceutical industry focusing on Specialty medications, pharmacy business supportive technologies, and industry trends.

The PPN is the world's largest network of podcasts dedicated to the pharmacy professional and industry insiders leading with our hosts interviewing dynamic people in the pharmacy industry making a difference for our profession, customers, and patients.

The definition of “Innovation” is: A new method, idea, product, or process. Processing, implementing, operating, or designing beyond the status-quo. Pharmacists are the HUB of Healthcare & the PPN is the Pharmacist's biggest fan. 

In March of 2009, Todd S. Eury, launched the Pharmacy Podcast Show. Over the years, the Pharmacy Podcast has accumulated over 75,000+ listeners and subscribers and is the most popular and downloaded podcast about the Pharmacy Industry.
The Pharmacy Podcast Show transformed into the Pharmacy Podcast Network (PPN) in 2014 and will continue to collect the thought leading interviews with some of the most brilliant minds in Pharmacy with over 30 co-hosts. The PPN is a Digital Health Publication and Content Developing partner to the Pharmaceutical industry focusing on Specialty medications, pharmacy business supportive technologies, and industry trends.
The PPN is the world's largest network of podcasts dedicated to the pharmacy professional and industry insiders leading with our hosts interviewing dynamic people in the pharmacy industry making a difference for our profession, customers, and patients.
The definition of &ldquo;Innovation&rdquo; is: A new method, idea, product, or process. Processing, implementing, operating, or designing beyond the status-quo. Pharmacists are the HUB of Healthcare &amp; the PPN is the Pharmacist's biggest fan.&nbsp;

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Hosted by CVS Health Careers Tyson Cromeens RPh PharmD Sr Advisor, Pharmacist Recruitment Strategy. This podcast is sponsored by CVS Health Careers division. 

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Hosted by CVS Health Careers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysoncromeens/">Tyson Cromeens</a> RPh PharmD Sr Advisor, Pharmacist Recruitment Strategy. This podcast is sponsored by CVS Health Careers division.&nbsp;
About CVS Health Careers:&nbsp;
<a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/employee-benefits">Career Growth</a>
Each and every day, in moments big and small, CVS Health is shaping the future of health care. As a colleague, you&rsquo;ll receive a competitive benefits package that connects you with affordable, flexible and personalized programs for managing your overall wellbeing.
<a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/employee-benefits">Partnering to Create a Better Workforce</a>
We know our success depends on the diverse talent, skills and experience&nbsp;of our colleagues. We work with organizations around the country in all&nbsp;communities to help us discover, attract, and retain new people to join&nbsp;our team.
<a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/employee-benefits">Inspiring Health in Communities</a>&nbsp;
As a company that is on the front line of public health issues such as opioid&nbsp;abuse, diabetes care and tobacco cessation, we actively encourage our&nbsp;colleagues to take care of their own health. CVS Health provides programs&nbsp;and tools to improve financial, emotional and physical wellbeing to all&nbsp;colleagues, not just those enrolled in benefits.
<a href="https://jobs.cvshealth.com/employee-benefits">Great Places to Work Awards</a>
We&nbsp;are proud to be recognized&nbsp;by&nbsp;Fast Company&nbsp;as one of the World's&nbsp;50 Most Innovative Companies List&nbsp;for 2018. CVS Health was also honored as&nbsp;No. 8&nbsp;on&nbsp;Fast&nbsp;Company's&nbsp;Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health.&nbsp;
This recognition is the latest in a series of third-party acknowledgments for CVS Health, including FORTUNE'S Most Admired Companies, DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity, Points of Light's Top 50 Community-Minded Companies, Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens, Human Rights Campaign's Top Places to Work for LGBT Equality and the Disability Equality Index's Top Places to Work.&nbsp;
Learn more:&nbsp;
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The PPN started in March of 2009 and has generated more than 2,000+ episodes publishing 6 to 7 days per week with over 140K+ listeners per month. The PPN was the first podcast to release continuing education for pharmacists in 2019 and was voted 'Healthcare Podcast of the Year' in 2022 by the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC).

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5 Roads into Loving Your Retail Pharmacy Career PART 5  Special Guest Ron Snow, Manager, Professional & College Relations CVS Health  The FINAL CHAPTER in the series, PART 5:  Play nice with others – This is a combo of all the 4...

5 Roads into Loving Your Retail Pharmacy Career PART 5 - Pharmacy Podcast Episode 364

Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid overdoses.

Opioids are a class of drugs that include prescription pain relievers like oxycodone. They also include illegal drugs like heroin. In 2019, 1.6 million Americans had an opioid addiction. This is also known as opioid use disorder. Yet effective medications—like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone—are prescribed to only a fraction of people with opioid use disorder. Patients often receive such medications in an opioid treatment program. Methadone, for example, can only be given in a certified treatment program. Primary care physicians can apply for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. However, less than 10% of U.S. primary care providers have a buprenorphine waiver. Given the limited number of patients that each physician can treat, involving pharmacists in opioid treatment may improve access.

The Doctor Patient Forum’s Mission Statement is to advocate, educate, and defend the rights of patients, to protect all providers (including prescribers and pharmacists) who tirelessly work to treat their patients, and to bring awareness to the general public regarding restrictions upon medical providers. We are fighting for a return to individualized patient care instead of using guidelines and laws based on little evidence using arbitrary thresholds. Contrary to what has been said, we are not “industry funded.” We haven’t taken any money from pharma. We are not being paid to promote opioids. We are simply chronic pain and illness patients who are fighting as hard as we can to effect change in this broken system where the patient’s voice is non-existent.

For part 4 of the series, we're honored to have Ms. Bev Schechtman. Ms. Schectman is one of the founding members of Don’t Punish Pain Rally and is the VP of The Doctor Patient Forum. She grew up in northern New Jersey, and has lived in the Raleigh area in North Carolina since 2009. Bev has been married to Randy for 18 years, and has two teenage daughters, Emma, 17, and Livvy,13. She also has a 3-year-old Aussidoodle, Griffin.

Bev has been living with Crohn’s Disease and Psoriatic Arthritis for over two decades. She first contacted Claudia Merandi after being denied opioid medication while hospitalized for kidney stones in 2017.She was denied due to being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Bev is a passionate advocate for people with chronic pain and illness as well as those who have PTSD/ survived sexual assault/abuse. Bev has her B.A. in Psychology and hopes to get her M.S.W. in the near future. Bev is a voracious reader and researcher. She is passionate about understanding why pain patients are being mistreated so she can educate other patients and empower them to fight back. Bev hopes her advocacy work brings awareness to the anti-opioid zealots who are profiting off of punishing pain patients while pretending to care about those with addiction. She also believes strongly in Harm Reduction efforts.

Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid overdoses.
Opioids are a class of drugs that include prescription pain relievers like oxycodone. They also include illegal drugs like heroin. In 2019, 1.6 million Americans had an opioid addiction. This is also known as opioid use disorder. Yet effective medications&mdash;like buprenorphine, methadone, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone">naltrexone</a>&mdash;are prescribed to only a fraction of people with opioid use disorder. Patients often receive such medications in an opioid treatment program.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methadone">Methadone</a>, for example, can only be given in a certified treatment program. Primary care physicians can apply for a waiver to prescribe&nbsp;<a href="https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a605002.html">buprenorphine</a>. However, less than 10% of U.S. primary care providers have a buprenorphine waiver. Given the limited number of patients that each physician can treat, involving pharmacists in opioid treatment may improve access.
The Doctor Patient Forum&rsquo;s Mission Statement is to advocate, educate, and defend the rights of patients, to protect all providers (including prescribers and pharmacists) who tirelessly work to treat their patients, and to bring awareness to the general public regarding restrictions upon medical providers. We are fighting for a return to individualized patient care instead of using guidelines and laws based on little evidence using arbitrary thresholds. Contrary to what has been said, we are not &ldquo;industry funded.&rdquo; We haven&rsquo;t taken any money from pharma. We are not being paid to promote opioids. We are simply chronic pain and illness patients who are fighting as hard as we can to effect change in this broken system where the patient&rsquo;s voice is non-existent.
For part 4 of the series, we're honored to have Ms. Bev Schechtman. Ms. Schectman is one of the founding members of Don&rsquo;t Punish Pain Rally and is the VP of The Doctor Patient Forum. She grew up in northern New Jersey, and has lived in the Raleigh area in North Carolina since 2009. Bev has been married to Randy for 18 years, and has two teenage daughters, Emma, 17, and Livvy,13. She also has a 3-year-old Aussidoodle, Griffin.
Bev has been living with Crohn&rsquo;s Disease and Psoriatic Arthritis for over two decades. She first contacted Claudia Merandi after being denied opioid medication while hospitalized for kidney stones in 2017.She was denied due to being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Bev is a passionate advocate for people with chronic pain and illness as well as those who have PTSD/ survived sexual assault/abuse. Bev has her B.A. in Psychology and hopes to get her M.S.W. in the near future. Bev is a voracious reader and researcher. She is passionate about understanding why pain patients are being mistreated so she can educate other patients and empower them to fight back. Bev hopes her advocacy work brings awareness to the anti-opioid zealots who are profiting off of punishing pain patients while pretending to care about those with addiction. She also believes strongly in Harm Reduction efforts.

Where's the Patient's Voice in Evidence-based Treatment & Research? | Pharmacist and Physician Opioid Collaborative

Pharmacists Answering the call | Pharmacy Podcast Nation

Ila M. Saunders, PharmD, BCOP, co-founder and leadership team member of the #PharmGradWishList interviews Ja’Miera Stuart, PharmD, #PGWL sponsee and winner of a large item crowdfunding campaign to support moving and relocation expenses to begin her PGY1 pharmacy residency.

Dr. Stuart has been interested in a career in pharmacy since high school when she began pre-pharmacy coursework. As a graduate of Florida A&M University, Dr. Stuart truly embraced the role of the pharmacist as a healthcare practitioner and ambassador. During her involvement in Student National Pharmaceutical Association, Dr. Stuart rallied and amplified the voices of underrepresented minorities. Now, Dr. Stuart began her career and continued her education as a pharmacy resident at Howard University Hospital, serving a pivotal patient population in the DC metro area.

Dr. Stuart is grateful for the generous outpouring of support from the pharmacy community who have and continue to help her achieve her goals and aspirations. She remains passionate about supporting opportunities, like those she has received, to continue diversifying pharmacy and healthcare.

To support other aspiring pharmacists, like Dr. Stuart, please follow more of her story on her instagram @morph_rx and you can find more information at pharmgradwishlist.org! 

Ila M. Saunders, PharmD, BCOP, co-founder and leadership team member of the #PharmGradWishList interviews&nbsp;Ja&rsquo;Miera Stuart, PharmD, #PGWL sponsee and winner of a large item crowdfunding campaign to support moving and relocation expenses to begin her PGY1 pharmacy residency.
Dr. Stuart has been interested in a career in pharmacy since high school when she began pre-pharmacy coursework. As a graduate of Florida A&amp;M University, Dr. Stuart truly embraced the role of the pharmacist as a healthcare practitioner and ambassador. During her involvement in Student National Pharmaceutical Association, Dr. Stuart rallied and amplified the voices of underrepresented minorities. Now, Dr. Stuart began her career and continued her education as a pharmacy resident at Howard University Hospital, serving a pivotal patient population in the DC metro area.
Dr. Stuart is grateful for the generous outpouring of support from the pharmacy community who have and continue to help her achieve her goals and aspirations. She remains passionate about supporting opportunities, like those she has received, to continue diversifying pharmacy and healthcare.
To support other aspiring pharmacists, like Dr. Stuart, please follow more of her story on her instagram @morph_rx and you can find more information at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/pharmacy-podcast/jamiera-stuart-brighter-WaVAb4oIEGp/pharmgradwishlist.org">pharmgradwishlist.org</a>!&nbsp;

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