Pharmacy Technicians' Willingness to Perform Emerging Tasks in Community Practice.

ABSTRACT: New tasks are being developed for pharmacy technicians in community practice. The objectives of this study were to (1) assess the willingness of community pharmacy technicians to perform new tasks, and (2) to identify factors affecting technicians in assuming new tasks in community pharmacy practice. An online survey asked about the respondent characteristics, involvement in pharmacy technician tasks, willingness to perform emerging pharmacy technician tasks, and influences on pharmacy technicians' performance of emerging tasks. Descriptive statistics were calculated for all items. A total of 639 usable surveys from community pharmacy technicians were used in the analyses. The respondents reported a mean of 11.5 years working as a pharmacy technician, with 79.2% working full time. Technici

SUBMITTER: Doucette WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6306904 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature