This study was designed to analyze the way of thinking of hospital pharmacists. The purpose of the study was to investigate professional sense and difficulties of hospital pharmacists, and suggest for an improvement.
This study was carried out by making up a questionnaire to hospital pharmacists who worked on university hospitals and general hospitals with more than a hundred beds in Seoul, Pusan, Incheon, Daegu, Daejeon, and Kwangju, The questionnaires were returned from 839 hospital pharmacists and analyzed.
The results were as follows. Only 13.2% of hospital pharmacists were satisfied with their hospitals. The main cause of unsatisfaction was their small pay (60.3%). So 74.1% of them demanded a raise of salay and the improvement of labor conditions. Nevertheless, 66.5% of them preferred to resign the right rather than to push on their demand to the last. Moreover, only 25% of them joined a labor union. 73.8% of them ere not attached to their job at all and did not want to become a pharmacist if they have a chance to choose a job again. Only 26.3% of them thought their positions as a lifelong job. About a half of them wanted to go a postgraduate course in future and pointed out to accumulate a store of knowledgement and information via activation of Drug Information Center. However, many of them usually had not joined an seminar, SIG and other academic meetings.
In conclusion, hospital pharmacists were depressed with a low pay and bad labor conditions such as overwork. We suggest the Korean Society of Hospital Pharmacists have to make an effort to improve the right of hospital pharmacists and make programs to assure and elevate the quality of them. Additionally, the hospital pharmacists themselves should make an effort to improve the their right and cultivate their ability.
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