Snapshot of unemployed pharmacists from the 2019 National Pharmacy Workforce Survey
| Autor: | Matthew J. Witry, Brianne K. Bakken, David H. Kreling, William R. Doucette, Vibhuti Arya, David A. Mott, Caroline A. Gaither, Jon C. Schommer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty health care facilities manpower and services media_common.quotation_subject education Pharmacist Pharmacology (nursing) Pharmacy Seeking work Pharmacists 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires health services administration medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine health care economics and organizations media_common Pharmacies Pharmacology business.industry Pharmacist workforce Unemployment Turnover Family medicine Workforce Cohort Female business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 61:e90-e95 |
| ISSN: | 1544-3191 |
| Popis: | Background Prior national surveys have quantified unemployment in the pharmacy workforce, and recent surveys have occurred in a changing environment, with increased numbers of pharmacists in the labor market. Objectives We sought to investigate the rate of unemployment and situations of unemployed pharmacists. Methods Data from the 2019 National Pharmacist Workforce Survey were analyzed, focusing on an initial question about employment status and follow-up questions for unemployed respondents about whether they were seeking a job, the reason they were unemployed, and how long they had been unemployed. Results Overall, 4.4% of the respondents were unemployed, with higher rates occurring for female pharmacists, older pharmacist cohorts, and respondents of color, with the highest rate occurring (9.3%) for Black pharmacists. Most (74.4%) of the unemployed pharmacists were seeking a job in pharmacy, but 16.6% were not seeking any job. Nearly two-thirds of the unemployed pharmacist respondents had left the workforce involuntarily, with men at higher rates than women. The youngest cohort of unemployed pharmacists was the least likely to be forced to leave and more likely to leave for workplace-related or personal reasons. Black pharmacists had the overall highest rate of leaving the workforce involuntarily. On average, the unemployed pharmacists had been out of work nearly 2 years (19.2 months), and the periods out of work ranged widely. Those seeking a job in pharmacy predominantly (75.7%) had been unemployed for 1 year or less. More than half of the pharmacists involuntarily unemployed had been unemployed for 6 months or less. Conclusion An increased rate of unemployment and a higher proportion of those unemployed seeking work occurred in this most recent national survey of the pharmacist workforce. Differences in the extent of unemployment and whether leaving the workforce was voluntary or involuntary occurred in pharmacists of color and in some age cohorts. |
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