Do South Australian pharmacy interns have the educational and behavioural precursors to meet the objectives of Australia's health care reform agenda?

Abstract

The positive values, beliefs and motivations expressed by respondents are significant behavioural precursors to meet the requirements of health professionals in Australia's health care reforms. Respondents indicated that their pharmacy education provided appropriate training in a number of relevant professional areas.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention to Improve the Patient Safety Attitudes of Intern Pharmacists

“…The study's sample size was towards the lower acceptable bounds of conducting both EFA and ANOVA. While this may limit the generalizability of the results, the demographics of the sample were similar to those of other studies of intern pharmacist populations, 12,13 indicating that results may be generalizable to intern pharmacists in other states of Australia. In addition, one of the attitudinal factors (questioning behaviors) only consisted of two items, which is less than the recommended three items.…”

“…34 Studies have also shown that there is a discord between interns' perceived practice roles and their actual practice roles. 12 This was also evident in the verbal feedback received by the pharmacists delivering the patient safety workshops. The use of mentoring in intern programs may be a solution to this issue, and has been demonstrated to improve practice behaviors and attitudes in other health disciplines.…”

“…11 However, this approach alone may be insufficient in ensuring positive patient safety practices by practitioners who have recently graduated. 12 Under the current pharmacy internship model in Australia, graduates must complete 1,824 hours of supervised practice in combination with an approved intern training program after the completion of either a bachelor or master of pharmacy program prior to registration as a pharmacist. 13,14 Supervised practice must be completed in an approved setting, with the majority of interns completing their hours in community pharmacy practice and a smaller proportion working in hospital settings.…”

Scoping the required business management skills for community pharmacy: Perspectives of pharmacy stakeholders and pharmacy students

“…Whist this review has revealed characteristics required for pharmacy management, there is a notable trend that students and newly registered pharmacists do not have the confidence in transitioning their undergraduate management training into a community pharmacy setting. 41,57,69,70,75 This knowledge reinforces the fact that 76% of post graduate pharmacists would have chosen business management as an elective course during their undergraduate study. 17 The profession requires early career community pharmacists to be competent in the ability to perform management skills of the human and technical domain and this knowledge needs to be integrated into the tertiary education curriculum.…”

Intern Pharmacists’ Job Satisfaction, Perception of the Profession and Preparedness to Provide Pharmaceutical Care Services in Southeastern Nigeria

“…This was done because previous survey experience has shown that participants in Nigerian surveys do not clearly understand the difference between "agree" and "somewhat agree". These perception items had been previously employed in earlier studies [7,8].…”