More than 100 articles reported about pharmacist shortage. Please see the links below:
Pharmacist shortage:
1. Is a pharmacy profession or a trade?
October 23, 2006
Viewpoint: Is pharmacy a profession or a trade? - Drug Topics
2. Pharmacist shortage to blame for Pharmacy closings.
July 11, 2005
Pharmacist Shortage To Blame For Pharmacy Closings :: WRAL.com
3. Pharmacy Licensure by endorsement requirements in FL
Date: October 2005
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/Publica...2006-223he.pdf
4. State Sees Increased Pharmacist Shortage
Date: December 01, 2006
Here and Now
5. Subject: HRSA Study Regarding Shortages of Licensed Pharmacists
May 01, 2000
National Association Of Chain Drug Stores
Quote:
”Establish a new temporary visa program allowing pharmacists from foreign countries to practice pharmacy in the United States until the shortage is alleviated. We appreciate your consideration of these comments as the study moves forward. Please contact John M. Coster, Ph.D., R.Ph., Vice President, Federal and State Programs, or Laura Miller, NACDS Senior Economist, (703-549-3001) if you need any additional information about this issue or have any questions about the data that we have provided.”
S. Lawrence Kocot Senior Vice President and General Counsel
6. Strategic plan 2007-2011, Texas, Pharmacist shortage
http://www.tsbp.state.tx.us/files_pd.../6-issue_3.pdf
7. Pharmacist Shortage to Worsen in 2020 published in U.S. Pharmacist:
Vol. No: 27:12 Posted: 12/15/02
By: Somnath Pal, B.S. (Pharm), M.B.A., Ph.D.
U.S. Pharmacist
8. News: Walgreens pharmacy cutting its hours due to personnel shortage
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:21 AM PDT
By Kathleen Vandervoet
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Covering all of Santa Cruz County, AZ - Nogales International
9. Pharmacist Shortage: Where do we stand?
January 13, 2006
By Charlotte A. Kenreigh, PharmD; Linda Timm Wagner, PharmD
Medscape Pharmacists. 2006;7(1) ©2006 Medscape 13 Jan 20
http://go2ec.org/pdfs/MedScapePharmShortage.pdf
10. Pharmacist job is 1 out of 5 unpopular jobs!
Certain jobs face a shortage of qualified workers
By Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com
Report by CNN, Feb 8, 2006:
CNN.com - Five of the most unpopular jobs - Feb 8, 2006
11. Professionally determined need for pharmacy services by 2020
Report of a Conference Sponsored by the
Pharmacy Manpower Project, Inc.
Project need by 2020 -->150,000
By David Knapp Ph.D.
BHPR - The Pharmacist Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand For
http://www.nacds.org/user-assets/pdf...inalreport.pdf
12. Is this a solution for pharmacist shortage?
April 6, 2005
E-Pharmacists Improve Patient Safety, Staff Efficiency
By Stacy Lawrence, Ziff Davis Internet
E-Pharmacists Improve Patient Safety, Staff Efficiency
13. Chain industry is alive and well: NACDS profile
Nov 20, 2006
By: Sandra Levy
Chain industry is alive and well: NACDS profile - Drug Topics
14. Facts and Figures: 2006
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
By: Department of professional employees
DPE: Programs & Publications: Issue Fact Sheets: Fact Sheet 2006: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: Facts and Figures
15. Untapped Resource - Hiring Foreign Pharmacists
From: Internation HR Journal
Summer 2004
By: Haywood M. Wise
http://www.goffandwilson.com/uploads...mer%202004.pdf
16. Coping Strategies - pharmacist shortages
From: NABP newsletter
Date: April 2006
Topic: State Boards, Pharmacy Schools address pharmacist manpower challenge with technology, technician regulations.
http://www.nabp.net/ftpfiles/newslet...NABP042006.pdf
17. Topic: Are escalating wages damaging the profession?
From: Drug Topics
Date: Dec 12, 2005
By: Susan J. Bliss, RPh., M.B.A.
Are escalating wages damaging the profession? - Drug Topics
18. Topic: Impact of the aging population on the health workforce in the U.S.
Date: March, 2006
By: Center for Health Workforce Studies
Funded by: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
Bureau of Health Professions
Please read page 170 - Pharmacist workforce
http://www.albany.edu/news/pdf_files...aging_full.pdf
19. Pharmacy Education, 2004
http://www.ucop.edu/healthaffairs/re...20PHARMACY.pdf
Please read page 4, last paragraph. It says that foreign pharmacy graduates face additional barriers to achieving U.S. licensure. They have language difficulties, knowledge of specific U.S. pharmacopeias, limit transfer of education credits, and other obstacles decrease opportunities for foreign graduates to enter the workforce.
20. Topic: 2006 ASHP Pharmacy staffing survey results
"The average length of time required to fill a vacant pharmacist position remains approximately 6 months, roughly the same as in 2002. (Table 5)"
"The most commonly used non-traditional staffing models include compressed work week (e.g. four 10-hour shifts) (54%), team scheduling (48%), job sharing (45%), and career transition programs (41%). (Table 7)"
http://www.ashp.org/emplibrary/StaffingSurvey2006.pdf
To be continued...