薬局薬剤師におけるバイタルサインの確認および救命救急への関与についての意識調査

Abstract

There are currently many on-going discussions on expanding the professional skills of pharmacists and in the future,pharmacists will need to be able to check the condition of patients.In view of this,we conducted a survey of the attitudes of community pharmacists towards further developing their professional skills and sent a questionnaire to 333 randomly selected community pharmacists in Japan.The questionnaire investigated attitudes toward checking vital signs,performing emergency medical procedures and expanding professional skills.The recovery rate was 26%.Analysis of the responses showed that there was a high level of interest in medical emergency education and expanding professional skills.However,it seemed that community pharmacists were experiencing difficulties in the current conduct of their duties and there was a general feeling that their profession was in a period of transition.There is therefore a need for innovative changes to be made in future pharmaceutical education and pharmacy practice programs and we feel that pharmacy schools need to devote energy to enhancing lifelong education for pharmacists designed to further develop their professional skills.