Determinants of Hospital Pharmacists’ Job Satisfaction in Romanian Hospitals

Iorga, Magdalena; Dondaș, Corina; Soponaru, Camelia; Antofie, Ioan

doi:10.3390/pharmacy5040066

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“…While pharmacists in New Zealand and Romania emphasized the importance of a higher salary as an important motivator, the pharmacists in Australia and the USA valued task assignment based on one’s skills and abilities as the more important motivator . Consistent with previous studies in Malaysia, the pharmacists in this study reported that salary was the major motivator and pointed out the absence of a performance‐based salary and promotion system.…”

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“…The impact of such training on improving professional skills and work performance was previously demonstrated among the employees in the USA and European countries . Pharmacists in Romania reported a low level of job satisfaction and performance due to limited clinical training opportunities . Emergence of a similar situation in Malaysia is thus of concern, as the lack of opportunities for career training and self‐advancement may demotivate the pharmacists in the public healthcare system …”

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Perceived motivators, training supports and challenges to career advancement among pharmacists in the Malaysian public healthcare system

Chang

Hassali

Hss

et al. 2019

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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Objectives To explore the perceived motivators, training supports and challenges to career advancement among fully and provisionally registered pharmacists (FRPs and PRPs) in the Malaysian public service. Methods Nine hundred and fifty‐three pharmacists in the public service of Perak State, Malaysia, were invited for participation in an online survey that was conducted in October 2018. Based on a 5‐point Likert scale, they were required to respond to 56 items, ranging from the perceived availability and importance of both motivators and training supports, the challenges to career advancement, to the awareness of the need for career planning. Their responses were subsequently dichotomized into ‘agree’/‘important’ and ‘disagree’/‘not important’. Key findings Four hundred and eighty pharmacists participated in the survey, yielding a response rate of 51.2%. More than half of them agreed with the inflexibility of working time and the absence of a performance‐based salary and promotion scheme. More than 80% of them also highly valued the training in both pharmacy‐related areas and management. Apart from inadequate training, no specialization in pharmacy as a profession and the absence of a performance‐based promotion scheme were identified as the major challenges to their career advancement. As compared with the PRPs, the FRPs had greater concern over the absence of a performance‐based salary and promotion scheme, flexible working time and periodic feedback for their work performance. Conclusions The findings indicate the inadequacy of the current system in providing recognition, training, feedback for work performance and a clear career pathway to pharmacists in the Malaysian public service, which warrants a change.

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Perceived motivators, training supports and challenges to career advancement among pharmacists in the Malaysian public healthcare system

Chang

Hassali

Hss

et al. 2019

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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“…This self-evaluation of their dietary behaviors doubled by the knowledge in drug’s component could be a reason for a self-administration of medicines. This habit was identified among medical students by a lot of researches focusing on this population [ 31 , 32 ] and among working pharmacists, with or without presenting a chronic disease [ 33 , 34 ]. The rates of self-administration of dietary supplements among pharmacy students balanced in different studies between 20% in Japan [ 35 ] and 47% in USA [ 27 ].…”

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Eating Disorders in Relationship with Dietary Habits among Pharmacy Students in Romania

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Changing dietary habits of university students is due to personal, social, educational or religious factors. The relationship between dietary habits and presence of eating disorders among university students is less known in Romania. Material and Methods: Ninety-one pharmacy students (91.21% women) were included in the research. Socio-demographic, anthropometric, medical, and psychological data were collected. Dietary self-declared habits were registered. The analysis of data was done using SPSS, v23. Results: A total of 69.2% of students had normal weight, 64.84% preferred to have lunch, and 23.08% eat during nights. The majority of subjects (95.6%), stated that they eat snacks daily. More than one-third of students keep diets to reduce their weight. Younger students tend to eat more main meals per week, snack more, and eat later after getting up in the morning. Subjects with high body dissatisfaction tended to have fewer main meals (r = −0.265, p = 0.011) and to skip breakfasts (−0.235, p = 0.025) and dinners (r = −0.303, p < 0.001). Pharmacy students that presented higher rate of emotional problems tend to sleep less and skip breakfast. Conclusions: Female pharmacy students had higher mean scores on all subscales than those found among Romanian women. A strong relationship between dietary habits and eating disorders was identified.

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“…When asked about whether it was matching between their professional expertise and salary, most pharmacists (58.43%) thought their salary was relatively low, and the comprehensive score for professional wellbeing was only 6.27 out of 10 points. According to several pieces of previous research, there are three domains for job satisfaction scale: payment-promotion, managementinterpersonal relationship, and organization-communication [13]. Workload, stress, advancement opportunities, job security, autonomy, fairness in the workplace, relationship with supervisors and colleagues, work flexibility, and working atmosphere are factors contributing to pharmacists' job satisfaction [14].…”

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A survey about the contents and features of oncology clinical pharmacy services and self-evaluations of the oncology pharmacists in China

Wang

Dai

Yang

et al. 2020

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Background: With the growing number of oncology patients and novel anti-tumor medications, the demand of oncology clinical pharmacy services is increasing rapidly in China. However, the current status of oncology clinical pharmacy services in China were seldom reported. The purpose of the study was to investigate the contents and features of oncology clinical pharmacy services and self-evaluations of the oncology pharmacists in China, and to identify related problems for its further development. Methods: A 55-item online questionnaire was distributed to oncology-related clinical pharmacists in Chinese hospitals in January 2019. Pharmacists answered the questions on the WeChat platform. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The respondents of the 166 valid questionnaires were from 29 provinces (or autonomous regions or municipalities). Their average working experience for clinical pharmacy was 4.86 years. The average duration of their clinical services was 3.27 hours/day. The clinical pharmacy services consist of 15 types and their workload on each service type were identified. Pharmacists thought they were not good at establishing pharmacotherapy protocols, participating in therapeutic drug monitoring, pharmacy consultation and pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic service. About 80% (81.33%) of the pharmacists thought other healthcare professionals knew the nature of their work, and some services were very welcomed by clinical departments. The biggest barrier for career development of the pharmacists was insufficiency of professional skills. In most cases, the clinical service accounted for less than 30% of the overall performance evaluation of the pharmacists. Most of the participating pharmacists were not satisfied with their current salary. The overall evaluation score for their career wellbeing was 6.27 out of 10. Conclusions: The value of oncology clinical pharmacists is being increasingly recognized, but advanced services need further expansion. Increasing the time serving in clinical units, optimizing performance evaluation and strengthening their skills are possible ways for pharmacists to provide superior services. This study showed the current service of oncology clinical pharmacists in most parts of China, which may provide reference for policy makers, promote international communications and shed light on future development of oncology clinical pharmacy in China. Key words: Oncology, pharmacist, clinical pharmacy services, self-evaluation, survey, China

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Determinants of Hospital Pharmacists’ Job Satisfaction in Romanian Hospitals

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Perceived motivators, training supports and challenges to career advancement among pharmacists in the Malaysian public healthcare system

Perceived motivators, training supports and challenges to career advancement among pharmacists in the Malaysian public healthcare system

Eating Disorders in Relationship with Dietary Habits among Pharmacy Students in Romania

A survey about the contents and features of oncology clinical pharmacy services and self-evaluations of the oncology pharmacists in China

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