Pharmacy Workers can you give me a quick ELI5 on out of stock?
I stock pharmacy truck. Pharmacy worker doesn't have enough product to fill a patients order so they set it to zero. But we have the product. So the next day something I might have just stocked I have to go into the counts and recount it.
Like I've asked a tech why something was zero when it was just delivered the day before and was told it was because they didn't have enough to fill a patient order so they out of stock it so they get it delivered on the next truck. Can they not just order it without it being set to zero? It feels like I'm getting counts for no reason other than they mark stuff as out of stock when we clearly have stock. Just not enough of it apparently. Even if that bottle only had two pills left in it that is still 2 pills not 0. It's not like it takes that much time to do. A near empty bottle I can just open and look inside of it. But multiple 100 count bottles that might have varying amounts of pills in it set to zero. And why so many bottles opened?
Are you only allowed to pull from one bottle? i.e. they need 30 pills but one bottle only has 15 can you not grab 15 from one and 15 from a new one instead of grabbing 30 from a new one?