Walgreens Pharmacist Mock Interview
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Question 9 of 38
If you felt a Walgreens customer was using prescribed drugs for the wrong reasons, what would you do?
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Heather Douglass has over 20 years of experience as a Career Coach, Recruiter, and HR Specialist. Much of her experience is as a Technical Recruiter in the healthcare industry.
As a pharmacist at Walgreens, one of your many jobs is to track patient compliance and usage of medication and maintain communication with prescribing physicians. Your interviewer needs to be assured that you would take all necessary steps to ensure that Walgreens isn't helping in the abuse of any prescription of drugs in their community.
Heather Douglass has over 20 years of experience as a Career Coach, Recruiter, and HR Specialist. Much of her experience is as a Technical Recruiter in the healthcare industry.
"As a pharmacist, I find myself phoning physicians to verify patient diagnoses to ensure they are using their medications correctly. Keeping the physician informed of the patient's usage is one of the ways that I monitor medication usage."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Tell the interviewer that you would make time to do the research to track the patient's usage over the last year to determine if there was a trend of abuse. You would work with the physician to inform them of the situation so they could take action on their end as well as discontinue dispensing on yours.
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