Drug Topics - October 20, 2008 - (Page 4) 4 DRUG TOPICS OCTOBER 20, 2008 www.drugtopics.com Of Interest to Pharmacists site. The questionnaire the state of pharmacy practice. contained 27 questions. This year, the majority also are satisMore than four in five fied with all other aspects of their jobs respondents were very other than the opportunity to provide concerned about their medication therapy management serorganization’s ability to Fred Mayer, RPh vices. However, more than one in five survive, provide salaries respondents were dissatisfied with their and benefits, understand pharmacy workloads, opportunities to provide medication issues, and provide good working therapy management services, and their physical conditions, according to one of the survey’s key work conditions. findings. Protecting the pharmacy profession, while Most respondents said they don’t favor limiting important to the majority of respondents, was not as the number of prescriptions filled per hour, limiting critical as the other organizational aspects included in the number of hours pharmacists work per week, or the survey. increasing or decreasing the technician-to-pharmacist More than three in four respondents said they ratios. About four in five respondents were satisfied were satisfied with their salaries, number of hours with the organizations for which they work. working and work schedule despite the fact that a The main issues of importance to respondents similar response group said in 2007 that the amount for the next five years were practice standards (three of time to attend to patients’ medication needs had in five respondents), prescription reimbursement increased as had the amount of time and paperwork (nearly half of the respondents), working conditions it took to properly dispense prescriptions. All of (nearly half of the respondents) and pharmacists those increases in administrative duties came with benefits and salaries (nearly half of the respondents), what pharmacists called a static number of staff according to the results. members, according to the CPhA’s 2007 survey of The survey also was used as a way of rating the http://www.drugtopics.com
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