The acetaminophen tablets from the Well at Walgreens brand showed a degradation of percent label claim of acetaminophen characterized by a R¬2 value of 0.4728 on a downward sloping treadline. The control percent label was found to be 105.3%. The percentages for weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8 were as follows: 111.9%, 88.7%, 100.9%, and 88.2%. Therefore, the total degradation found in the group results is a loss of 17.3% label claim. No outliers were determined at this time. The reason for this large amount would have to be the experimental conditions (70 C°, 75% RH), as these conditions are well outside of the recommended conditions shown on the label (15 – 30 C°). These extreme conditions led to a decrease in the amount of active acetaminophen present
I have worked at Walgreens as a pharmacist technician, but never had an experience working in a hospital pharmacy before. During my rotation, I noted that nearly everyone admitted into hospital have an acute condition that justifies the admission. The conditions also tend to be more severe or unusual, which leads to a greater variety of medicines being used. Also, in the hospital a doctor or nurse is not hesitant to contact a pharmacist when they need advice and pharmacists are accessible.
A teenage girl drove into a Walgreen's parking lot and went into Walgreen's. She casually shopped in the store like a teenager would and once she was done shopping she checked out at the register. When she received her bags she exited Walgreen's and walked across the parking lot to her car and once she went to get into her car a person came up behind her and put her in the car and the criminal drove off with her and her car. Law enforcement used the surveillance that Walgreen's had. The surveillance showed that when the teenage girl drove into Walgreen's parking lot that a blue F-150 pulled in behind her and parked in the parking lot. Additionally, it showed the man casually walking into Walgreen's and once the teenage girl walked into Walgreen's
Thank you Lord! I am very grateful to be able to successfully finish my third rotation at Walgreens pharmacy in Wellington, FL. My preceptor was Dr. Andrew Guvetis, a graduate from Nova Southern University and he has been working with Walgreens for a little over 2 years. During the first day, I noticed that this Walgreens was somewhat different from the others. It was designed like a wellness clinic where the pharmacist can spend some time during the day sitting on a desk right outside the pharmacy check-out counter and be accessible to answer any questions patients may have. It also had a big consultation room with comfy seating, a table including a sink and counter where a pharmacist can prepare immunizations or perform several screening tests. Walgreens offers health tests every day which help determine possible risks for heart disease or are looking for convenient ways to manage diabetes or high blood pressure. Some of the services offered include: cholesterol and blood pressure tests, body composition test and a comprehensive medication review. Test results are provided within minutes and it includes a pharmacist consultation as well.
Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City.Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized and the windows at Walgreen's gave way to the looters. There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit
Improve the safety of using medications. The findings were that often medication error were made because medications and other solutions were removed from their original
Acetaminophen is a common pain reliever and fever reducer used to treat conditions such as head, muscle or toothache, as well as colds, fevers, and even arthritis. It is available in a many tablet form to be ingested. These tablets are manufactured by a large variety of pharmaceutical manufactures including a great deal of generic brand companies. These tablets all have the same active ingredient in acetaminophen, yet each hold different inactive ingredients that can impact the overall performance of the drug. These inactive ingredients affect the overall chemical stability of the tablets and can lead to a faster decrease in potency of the acetaminophen tablet over time making the tablet less viable of an option to treat common aches and pains. Storage outside the range of the recommended temperature could greatly increase this rate of degradation.
Working at Walgreens has taught me a lot about people. I do many different jobs like stocking shelves, working at the cash register or cleaning. My favorite part of my job is when I get to talk to customers. I have always been a shy, quiet, awkward kid. It's been hard for me to talk to people, especially strangers. I used to have preset phrases that sounded robotics and mechanical. If someone asked how I was, I would always respond with “I am doing well, how are you?” regardless of how I actually felt. These phrases guaranteed a short “good, thanks.” back and conversations ended abruptly. Once I started working at Walgreens, I began to get better at social interactions. I can now say a quick joke or just listen to people’s problems that
This summer I was able to do my IPPE hours at Kroger Pharmacy in Findlay, OH with Dr. Alison Mosler. This was my first experience working in a pharmacy, so I was very excited to learn everything I could about community pharmacy. From shadowing a pharmacist in my first semester, I gained a basic understanding of the process of filling a prescription. Through this experience, I was able to shadow at each work station and work hands-on at production and some at drop-off. Furthermore, I participated in activities like taking a phone-in prescription, testing my blood glucose levels, and transferring a prescription.
Consumerism has always played a critical role in my life. As a child, an endless series of elementary school fads introduced this debilitating desire to have. From a young age it was obvious that one’s status is very closely correlated with what they own and the desire to fit in engendered a sense of competition in my elementary psyche. Yet, a year ago when I began working at Walgreens I started to question the ideas with which I had been indoctrinated. But at first, my job seemed a simple rite of passage and my chance to prove I could evolve into a working, dependent citizen.
CVS health hasn’t always been that name at one point they went by CVS Caremark and still some of the things they have out there are named CVS Caremark. The main corporation is based out of Woonsocket Rhode Island. There are roughly 8,500 CVS Health pharmacies and clinics around the world with more to be built eventually. CVS Health is ranked number ten on the fortune 500 and has went up in ranking yearly. CVS stands for convenience, value, service.
The downward slope in Figure 2 displayed a degradation. The suggested stored conditions for Goodsense tablets were listed as 20 C to 25 C (68 F to 77 F) on the pill bottle. Degradation seemed to hasten when placed in extreme conditions such as a temperature of 70.0 C and a relative humidity of 75.0 like in this study. The percent label claim of cetirizine decreased over the seven weeks. In addition, the HPLC displayed an unchanging inactive ingredient during the progressing weeks inside the environmental chamber that was not present in the control
I have chosen to analyze the interaction of my previous employer Walgreens and their competitor CVS. In this analysis, I will discuss the players and the strategy. In addition, I will attempt to compute payoffs of each decision to sell or not sell tobacco. I conclude the analysis with what the profit consequences of each company.
According to this case, and concerning about the strategy that Best Buy has created, retailers can similarly create a retailer-led product strategy to leverage their customer knowledge for product differentiation and to understand what the needs of the customers are; they must discover what satisfies the customer and what not. In addition, the retailer can seek for news partnerships, new stores, new countries and new categories and services in order to increase their net sales and their share market. It’s very important invest in marketing study aiming to discover what the other companies are doing. Besides, with the time, the smaller retailer can increase significantly even more than the
We would like to thank you so much for all the hard work that you all have been doing. As Walgreens still continue being one of the top largest retail pharmacy in the United States. Our goal and vision has always been; to be America's most loved pharmacy-led health, wellbeing and beauty retailer and to champion everyone’s right to be happy and healthy and that also include our employees. With that being said we really appreciate your loyalty and the excellent work that you continue to do despite our current predicament.
A Corporate Giant Or A Corporate Beast Introduction This case discusses: • • • • • • Introduction to Wal-Mart History of Wal-Mart The Road to Success - Corporate Strategy The Criticism and the Challenges Wal-Mart’s PR strategy