Brett J. Anderson BPharm (Hons), GradCertPharmPrac, FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, Research), Simone E. Taylor PharmD (BPharm), GradCertClinicalResearchMethods, FSHP, FANZCAP (EmergMed, Research), Joanne Travaglia BSocStuds (Hons), MEd, PhD, Rachelle L. Catanzariti BMedsci, BBus, MPharm, PhD, Lisa Pont BSc, BPharm, MSc (Epidemiology), PhD, FSHP, FANZCAP (GeriMed, Edu)
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Abstract
Background
A 2016 Australian hospital pharmacy technician workforce survey reported that pharmacy technicians seldom perform clinical support roles. Subsequently, the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia extended their endorsement of pharmacy technicians performing clinical roles in the Standard of practice for pharmacy technicians to support clinical pharmacy services published in 2019. It is unknown if the roles undertaken by hospital pharmacy technicians have since evolved.
Aim
To compare and contrast trends in the uptake of hospital pharmacy technician roles between 2016–2022.
Method
An electronic questionnaire comprising 97 questions was circulated to Australian hospital pharmacy departments in 2022 and the results were compared to those obtained from the 2016 questionnaire. Hospital pharmacy technicians' clinical support roles were categorised as ‘clinical tasks’ (n = 15) or ‘technical tasks’ (n = 34). Ethical approval was granted by the University of Technology Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (Reference no: ETH21-6732) and the study conforms with the National statement on ethical conduct in human research. Informed consent was obtained from all participants via project information distributed to potential participants via email, indicating their participation would be voluntary and anonymous. Participants provided their consent by completing the questionnaire.
Results
Responses were received from 54 of 273 pharmacy departments (response rate 20%) in 2022 compared to 154 responses from 308 pharmacy departments (response rate 50%) in 2016. Hospital pharmacy technicians performed a median of 0.5 ‘clinical tasks’ (interquartile range [IQR] 0–1.25) in 2022 and 1 ‘clinical tasks’ (IQR 0–3) in 2016. In contrast, hospital pharmacy technicians performed a median of 7 (IQR 3–12) and 8 (IQR 3–12) ‘technical tasks’ in 2022 and 2016, respectively. No significant changes were identified in the prevalence of hospital pharmacy technicians undertaking clinical tasks.
Conclusion
Despite publication of professional practice standards endorsing clinical roles for pharmacy technicians, clinical roles are still seldom performed. Interventions are required to address the barriers limiting the expansion of hospital pharmacy technician roles.
期刊介绍：
The purpose of this document is to describe the structure, function and operations of the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, the official journal of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA). It is owned, published by and copyrighted to SHPA. However, the Journal is to some extent unique within SHPA in that it ‘…has complete editorial freedom in terms of content and is not under the direction of the Society or its Council in such matters…’. This statement, originally based on a Role Statement for the Editor-in-Chief 1993, is also based on the definition of ‘editorial independence’ from the World Association of Medical Editors and adopted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
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