Wouldn't recommend - Anonymous employee CVS Health Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation. I enjoyed the NPs I worked with. Good job for a new NP but don't stay long or you'll lose you confidence in the whole scope of medicine.

Cons

1. What is advertised as "autonomy" is not true autonomy. You will be told "it's not about the money", then you will be sent a report about how many of your referrals were charge referrals and how many weren't. I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot either. 2. Understaffed mostly because this job is not family friendly. Reminiscent of nursing hospital work. Mandatory weekends, holidays, and 12 hour shifts. Your only supposed to work 30/35 hours per week, but once you lose an NP your call days are automatic shifts. 3. Credentialing is completely inefficient. Most of the new hires never make it to clinic orientation because they found a different job in the two months waiting to be credentialed. 4. Overall, NPs who stay in the box seem to have diminished confidence in their skills. Sure, the guidelines cover 20 something illnesses, but medicine is much more diverse and much more interesting than that. If you want to be a well rounded nurse practitioner, this is not the job for you.

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5.0
Dec 13, 2014
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Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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