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1. Is a pharmacy profession or a trade?

October 23, 2006

http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=379886&pageID=1&sk=&date=

2. Pharmacist shortage to blame for Pharmacy closings.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/118387/

3. Pharmacy Licensure by endorsement requirements in FL

Date: October 2005

http://www.flsenate.gov/data/Publications/2006/Senate/reports/interim_reports/pdf/2006-223he.pdf

4. State Sees Increased Pharmacist Shortage

Date: December 01, 2006

http://www.wpt.org/hereandnow/index.cfm?did=25184

5. Subject: HRSA Study Regarding Shortages of Licensed Pharmacists
 
May 01, 2000

http://www.nacds.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1111

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_pdf/strat%20files/6-issue_3.pdf

7. Pharmacist Shortage to Worsen in 2020m published in U.S. Pharmacist:

Vol. No: 27:12 Posted: 12/15/02

By: Somnath Pal, B.S. (Pharm), M.B.A., Ph.D.

http://www.uspharmacist.com/index.asp?show=article&page=8_1008.htm

8. News: Walgreens pharmacy cutting its hours due to personnel shortage

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:21 AM PDT
 

By Kathleen Vandervoet

Please sign in to read this news. It is free.

http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2007/04/24/news/news8.txt

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:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/Careers/02/08/cb.unpopular.jobs/index.html

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.

http://www.nacds.org/user-assets/pdfs/Pharmacy/2020Needs%20Conferencefinalreport.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

http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1782322,00.asp?kc=CTNKT0209KTX1K0100481

13. Chain industry is alive and well: NACDS profile

Nov 20, 2006

By: Sandra Levy

http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=385556

14. Facts and Figures: 2006

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

By: Department of professional employees

http://www.dpeaflcio.org/programs/factsheets/fs_2006_pharmacists.htm#_edn3

15. Untapped Resource - Hiring Foreign Pharmacists

From: Internation HR Journal

Summer 2004

By: Haywood M. Wise

http://www.goffandwilson.com/uploads/pressreleases/Untapped%20Resources%20-%20Hiring%20Foreign%20Pharmacists%20-%20IHRJ%20Summer%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/newsletters/NABP/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.

http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=256775&refresh=1184533067080

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/impact_of_aging_full.pdf

19. Pharmacy Education, 2004

 http://www.ucop.edu/healthaffairs/reports/REFORMATTED%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

21. Topic: Pharmacist shortage could get worse.

Jul 1, 2006
By: Kara Nuzback
Healthcare Traveler

http://www.healthcaretraveler.com/healthcaretraveler/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=355313

22. Topic: USA Today examines pharmacist shortage

August 17, 2005

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=32067

23. Listen to NPR news:

U.S. faces pharmacist shortage. Click listen.

October6, 2003

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1456306

24.*  It is from AACP, update Feb 2007.

http://www.aacp.org/Docs/MainNavigation/Resources/8135_PMPResourceList-workingdraft.pdf

25. Medication without information?

By ALLISON RUPP
Star-Tribune staff writer Thursday, April 19, 2007

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/04/19/news/wyoming/4ea2c51b9a194a7b872572c20003b13c.txt

26. Pharmacists face uncertain future in rural Montana

By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian

"You can't compete with a robot so you must use your brain."

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/mtregional/news06.txt

27. Healthcare Personal Shortage 2006, Supply & Demand: Pharmacists

http://www.healthcarepersonnel.org/supply/pharmacists.htm

28. Pharmacist Shortage Leaves Some Customers Unfulfilled

Fox News 21, WBOC News

Reported by Hallie Jackson

12/04/2006

http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5766889

29. State faces shortage of pharmacists

BizTimes Daily

Published November 29, 2006

http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2006/11/29/state-faces-shortage-of-pharmacists

30. Wanted: Healthcare Professionals   

Feb. 2006

31. Retirees and part-timers to shrink R.Ph. Ranks May 8, 2006

By: Carol Ukens

Drug Topics

http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=323256

32. Pharmacist Shortage worsens nationwide

Daily Policy Digest

National Center Policy Analysis, Health Issues

November 9, 2005

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=2505

33. Ask the pharmacists , PROMO

Mar 1, 2003 12:00 PM, By John Rand and Jenny Ng

http://promomagazine.com/retail/marketing_ask_pharmacist/

34. Pharmacist Shortage Continues Unabated

 Latest NACDS Foundation Chain Pharmacy Employment Survey
 
July 01, 2003

http://www.nacds.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=3208

35. Prescription for success more elusive as drugstores face new economic, market challenges

Bartell Drugs

by George D. Bartell

"One of the fundamental problems facing drugstores is a shortage of pharmacists. Colleges of pharmacy simply are not producing enough pharmacists to meet demand. In our company, the shortage means that we struggle to maintain the high level of customer service that is our standard."

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