Survey on Attitudes of Hospital Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students Regarding Their Involvement in Taking Vital Signs and Medical Emergency Procedures

This research intends to clarify the future prospects of hospital pharmacists and also the factors which in‰uence on their practices of blood drawing or injection by conducting research on their consciousness. We studied it using mail-in survey targeting on randomly selected 476 hospital pharmacists. Study items were the attribution of responders, the prospects of their status in 10 years later, and the system and practices which in‰uence on their future prospects (for example, injection, blood drawing during TDM, and etc.). The collection rate of the questionnaire/inquiry sheet was 37.0 ％. Regarding their future prospects in 10 years, 65.1％ of responders answered they felt pessimistic. Among those system and practices which could in‰uence on the prospects, they answered``Pharmacy specialist system'' as the most optimistic and``Diagnosis related group /Prospective payment system (Japanese version; DPC)'' as the most pessimistic. Regarding the above mentioned future prospects for injection and blood drawing during TDM by pharmacists, we implemented an exploratory data analysis by applying responders' attribution to a logistic model. The result of it showed that the pharmacists who work longer years, are in charge of drug information, and work in a hospital having more corresponding number of sickbeds per pharmacist had more positive consciousness to the above-mentioned practices. We hope this study results will be utilized as objective information in the discussion on the expansion of pharmacists' job categories.

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Search for Consciousness of Hospital Pharmacists on the Future Prospects of their Practices and on their Practices of Blood Drawing or Injection

Koinuma

Imai

Kanda

et al. 2009

YAKUGAKU ZASSHI

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A Survey of Student Pharmacists' Attitudes toward New Procedures Expected for Future Pharmacists

et al. 2010

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Bedsides conventional bedside training the Department of Pharmacy of Kyushu University of Health and Welfare covers advanced practices focused on new procedures expected for future pharmacists. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the 4th year students of the 6-year curriculum of the department in order to retrospectively evaluate their attitudes toward basic life support, and the necessity and feasibility of items related to the training. Sixty-nine percent of the students responded that they would provide appropriate treatment under a situation where basic life support was needed. The item regarded as most necessary and feasible before training was``treatment for basic life supportcardiopulmonary resuscitation.'' After training, however,``checking vital signs,''``physical assessment,'' and``pharmacist's assistance in medication'' were the items rated as equal to or higher than``treatment for basic life supportcardiopulmonary resuscitation.'' The lowest ranked item in terms of necessity and feasibility both before and after training was``intramuscular/subcutaneous injection,'' followed by``intravenous injection'' and``normal intravenous collection of blood'' in that order. The results of this attitude survey demonstrated that many students were willing to perform such operations as part of checking vital signs and physical assessment.

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Awareness of Hospital Pharmacists with Regard to Expanding the Professional Role of Pharmacists and Analysis of Factors Influencing This

Tokunaga¹,

Koinuma²,

Takamura³

et al. 2009

Jpn. J. Pharm. Health Care Sci.

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Survey on Attitudes of Hospital Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students Regarding Their Involvement in Taking Vital Signs and Medical Emergency Procedures

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Search for Consciousness of Hospital Pharmacists on the Future Prospects of their Practices and on their Practices of Blood Drawing or Injection

Search for Consciousness of Hospital Pharmacists on the Future Prospects of their Practices and on their Practices of Blood Drawing or Injection

A Survey of Student Pharmacists' Attitudes toward New Procedures Expected for Future Pharmacists

Awareness of Hospital Pharmacists with Regard to Expanding the Professional Role of Pharmacists and Analysis of Factors Influencing This

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