Walmart pharmacy tech honored for finest service in U.S.
Boston-based SingleCare Providers LLC not too long ago named Nikki Smith, a pharmacy technician at Walmart on Mall Avenue in Fayetteville, the very best technician for service in the US.
SingleCare, a free service serving to shoppers get monetary savings on prescriptions, not too long ago introduced the winners of its fourth annual Better of the Greatest Pharmacy Awards. Smith was acknowledged among the many prime 25 pharmacists, technicians and groups throughout the nation. She was the one Arkansas winner.
After studying she’d gained, Smith mentioned it reassured her in her function and why she does it.
“It exhibits the compassion and the care that I give my sufferers each day,” she mentioned. “Whether or not at my retailer or one other retailer, I give that very same power and compassion to all my sufferers. It grounded that quite a bit.”
Requested what’s distinctive about her service, Smith mentioned she spends time with sufferers in order that they perceive any points and helps them afford their medicine by recommending assets, akin to producers’ low cost playing cards for name-brand medication. Additionally, she mentioned she tries to deal with sufferers how she’d need her household or mates to be handled, which is with dignity and respect.
A Fayetteville native, Smith has been a pharmacy technician for seven years, together with six years at Walmart. Her first function as a pharmacy technician was at Walgreens.
“You get to assist folks, and lots of people in all probability don’t see our jobs as that, contemplating we work inside a retail facility,” she mentioned. “It’s healthcare and offering for folks and ensuring persons are getting higher or that they’ve their medicines on time.”
Smith is collaborating in Walmart’s Reside Higher U program and taking on-line lessons at Bellevue College to earn a bachelor’s diploma in healthcare administration. With the diploma, she mentioned she may develop into a challenge supervisor within the well being and wellness division at Walmart’s residence workplace or handle one of many many clinics the retailer is opening.
