[Survey of student pharmacists' attitudes toward new procedures expected for future pharmacists].
Bedsides conventional bedside training the Department of Pharmacy of Kyushu University of Health and Welfare covers advanced practices focused on new procedures expected for future pharmacists. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the 4th year students of the 6-year curriculum of the department in order to retrospectively evaluate their attitudes toward basic life support, and the necessity and feasibility of items related to the training. Sixty-nine percent of the students responded that they would provide appropriate treatment under a situation where basic life support was needed. The item regarded as most necessary and feasible before training was "treatment for basic life support--cardiopulmonary resuscitation." After training, however, "checking vital signs," "physical assessment," and "pharmacist's assistance in medication" were the items rated as equal to or higher than "treatment for basic life support--cardiopulmonary resuscitation." The lowest ranked item in terms of necessity and feasibility both before and after training was "intramuscular/subcutaneous injection," followed by "intravenous injection" and "normal intravenous collection of blood" in that order. The results of this attitude survey demonstrated that many students were willing to perform such operations as part of checking vital signs and physical assessment.
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University of Health and Welfare. j-tokunaga@phoenix.ac.jp
Jin
J
Tokunaga
Norito
N
Takamura
Kenji
K
Ogata
Hiroki
H
Yoshida
Nao
N
Setoguchi
Keizo
K
Sato
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000523:psychology*; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends*; D010604:Pharmacy / Q000639:trends*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055986:Vital Signs; D055815:Young Adult