Pharmacists' self-perception of their professional role: Insights into community pharmacy culture

Japanese Community Pharmacists’ Barriers to Conducting or Participating in Practice Research

“…This was because Japanese community pharmacists did not have the experience to participate in well-designed practice research. Pharmacists' culture may be a barrier for practice research [7] [13]. Pharmacists' culture is strongly dependent on country and region.…”

Personality Traits of Hospital Pharmacists: Toward a Better Understanding of Factors Influencing Pharmacy Practice Change

“…11,12 In previous work exploring the professional culture of pharmacy, we posed the question "What does a pharmacist do?" to randomly selected samples of community and hospital pharmacists from Alberta, Canada.…”

“…11,12 In the community pharmacist sample, 45% of responses were considered product-focused (e.g., "fill prescriptions"), whereas only 29% were patient-centred (e.g., "address patients' medication needs"). 11 Among hospital pharmacists, only 24% of responses to this question were patient-centred (e.g., "work as a member of the health care team to improve individual patient's health"), whereas over half of the responses were related directly to drugs (rather than patients, e.g., "calculating pharmacokinetics for certain medications") or were focused on drug distribution (e.g., "dispense prescriptions"). 12 Taken together, the results of these studies suggest that pharmacy culture remains rooted in the traditional function of dispensing medications.…”

Move Over, Strategic Plan: Make Way for the Culture Plan!

“…7 In that earlier study, the culture of community pharmacists was found to be product-focused, with pharmacists seeing themselves primarily as "medication dispensers". The small body of literature on the culture of our profession was reviewed by Jacobs and others, 8 who found only a handful of studies documenting the culture of pharmacists, and those primarily for community pharmacists.…”