title: Job and career satisfaction among pharmacy preceptors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the perceived benefit of job and career satisfaction among pharmacist preceptors and to explore other factors that might influence satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional self-administered survey instrument was mailed to pharmacists in the South Central region of the United States who had active 2010 licenses to investigate whether being a pharmacist preceptor increases job and career satisfaction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-three percent of the 363 respondents were active preceptors and 62% of these reported that they had been preceptors at some point in the past. Being an active preceptor was significantly related to increased job satisfaction (p = 0.01) but not to career satisfaction. Having a perceived benefit of continuing education and being professionally challenged at work also were associated with increased job and career satisfaction (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacist preceptors have higher levels of self-reported job satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, 72205, USA. npayakachat@uams.edu
authors.forename: Nalin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Payakachat
authors.forename: Songthip
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ounpraseuth
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ragland
authors.forename: Matthew M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Murawski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002321:Career Choice; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology*; D010604:Pharmacy; D011231:Preceptorship; D055815:Young Adult
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