Quiñones Ana C, Thompson Jacob
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy, 555 - 31st Street, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2009 Mar;5(1):71-5. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2008.05.004. Epub 2009 Jan 21.
Certain pharmacy sectors including 24-h community retailers and hospitals usually divide work schedules by shifts such as daytime, evening, and night shifts. The pharmacy literature dealing with the various types of alternative work schedules has not addressed the pharmacy night shift workforce specifically.
To obtain baseline information on night shift work pharmacists through analysis of the Illinois Pharmacist Compensation Survey 2005.
The biennial Pharmacist Compensation Survey, a 4-page self-administered questionnaire, was mailed in late 2005 to a random sample of pharmacists residing in Illinois, United States of America. Pharmacists who indicated that their gross base earnings included a shift differential were classified as shift work pharmacists. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and t tests were used to compare shift work pharmacists to non-shift work pharmacists. An alpha level of 0.05 was used to determine statistical significance.
In Illinois, pharmacists receiving shift work differential pay were more likely to be women staff hospital pharmacists who work fewer weeks per year. Also, they spent significantly less time on business management activities and functions other than consultation, drug management, and dispensing.
Night shift workers in pharmacy might be different from the nationwide shift workforce. Understanding the characteristics that best describe shift work pharmacists might help employers better tailor their recruitment efforts for this type of schedule.
某些药房部门，包括24小时营业的社区药房和医院，通常按班次划分工作时间表，如白班、晚班和夜班。处理各种类型替代工作时间表的药学文献尚未专门涉及药房夜班工作人员。
通过分析2005年伊利诺伊州药剂师薪酬调查，获取夜班工作药剂师的基线信息。
2005年末，将两年一次的药剂师薪酬调查问卷（一份4页的自填式问卷）邮寄给居住在美国伊利诺伊州的药剂师随机样本。那些表示其基本总收入包括轮班补贴的药剂师被归类为轮班工作药剂师。使用描述性统计、卡方检验和t检验来比较轮班工作药剂师和非轮班工作药剂师。使用0.05 的显著性水平来确定统计学显著性。
在伊利诺伊州，获得轮班补贴的药剂师更有可能是女性，是每年工作周数较少的医院药剂师工作人员。此外，他们在业务管理活动以及咨询、药品管理和配药以外的职能上花费的时间明显更少。
药房夜班工作人员可能与全国轮班劳动力不同。了解最能描述轮班工作药剂师的特征可能有助于雇主更好地针对此类工作时间表调整招聘工作。
