Pharmacy Systems Reviews

Much of the companies upper management, CEO, COO, and VPs are not pharmacists. They treat their directors as disposable workers that can be replaced at a whim to suite their needs. Their pay and benefits are below average. They micro manage their directors to the point that they become dissatisfied with their work as they become a cog in the machine and not supposed to think. The rarely if ever recognize exceptional work performed by their employees.

If you become a Director of Pharmacy for Pharmacy Systems, you will have 2 bosses. Your boss at the client site (Example: Chief Financial Officer or Chief Nursing Officer) and your boss at Pharmacy Systems. Both bosses will often desire very different things, and additionally these desires will sometimes conflict with each other. When this happens you will be put in a situation where you can be set up to fail. Make the client angry and you will be unsuccessful at your job, make the Pharmacy Systems boss angry and you will be unsuccessful at your job. Additionally, Pharmacy Systems provides a large amount of literature and resources to help you accomplish the difficulties of Directing a Pharmacy, but offers almost zero support in helping you implement it. Be prepared to work extremely long hours to meet corporate deadlines. (Example: 70 to 90 hour weeks on a regular basis with little, if any, overtime pay). Finally, Pharmacy Systems micromanages you to the point that you don't feel like a director of your own department. Your decisions on how to run the pharmacy will always be stringently reviewed by a corporate boss who only visits the hospital every two weeks.