Reasons for Low Regulatory Body Discipline Rates for Canadian Hospital Pharmacists
BACKGROUND: Past research on disciplinary action by pharmacist regulatory bodies has shown that most cases concern community pharmacists, with few occurring in a hospital setting. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how discipline-related issues involving pharmacists are dealt with by hospital pharmacy depart...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8956463 2023-05-15T17:22:41+02:00 Reasons for Low Regulatory Body Discipline Rates for Canadian Hospital Pharmacists Fung, Ariane Foong-Reichert, Ai-Leng Houle, Sherilyn K D Grindrod, Kelly A 2022-04-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956463/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35387375 https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.v75i2.3123 en eng Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956463/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35387375 http://dx.doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.v75i2.3123 2022 Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. All content in the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy is copyrighted by the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacy. In submitting their manuscripts, the authors transfer, assign, and otherwise convey all copyright ownership to CSHP. Can J Hosp Pharm Original Research Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.v75i2.3123 2022-10-09T00:28:50Z BACKGROUND: Past research on disciplinary action by pharmacist regulatory bodies has shown that most cases concern community pharmacists, with few occurring in a hospital setting. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how discipline-related issues involving pharmacists are dealt with by hospital pharmacy departments in Canada. METHODS: Hospital pharmacy directors and managers from small, medium, and large hospitals across Canada were invited to participate in semi-structured telephone interviews. The interview questions focused on the discipline process in participants’ organizations, the situations when reporting to the regulatory body is deemed to be warranted, possible penalties, and recommendations for improving the regulatory body or organizational discipline process. RESULTS: Ten participants, from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, agreed to be interviewed. Five key themes emerged as contributing to lower rates of hospital pharmacist discipline cases being escalated to the regulatory college level: robust organizational discipline processes independent from the regulatory college, a practice environment promoting competence, union representation, preference for a remedial approach to discipline, and lack of clarity about when to report to the regulatory authority. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified a number of reasons why discipline of hospital pharmacists by a regulatory body may be less prevalent than discipline relating to community pharmacists. The main reasons may be lack of clarity about when to report a case to the regulator and a lack of transparency, given that many cases are handled internally within hospitals. Environmental supports for competence and employee protections (e.g., through a union) may also reduce discipline cases. Text Newfoundland Prince Edward Island PubMed Central (PMC) British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Newfoundland Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 75 2 |
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BACKGROUND: Past research on disciplinary action by pharmacist regulatory bodies has shown that most cases concern community pharmacists, with few occurring in a hospital setting. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how discipline-related issues involving pharmacists are dealt with by hospital pharmacy departments in Canada. METHODS: Hospital pharmacy directors and managers from small, medium, and large hospitals across Canada were invited to participate in semi-structured telephone interviews. The interview questions focused on the discipline process in participants’ organizations, the situations when reporting to the regulatory body is deemed to be warranted, possible penalties, and recommendations for improving the regulatory body or organizational discipline process. RESULTS: Ten participants, from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, agreed to be interviewed. Five key themes emerged as contributing to lower rates of hospital pharmacist discipline cases being escalated to the regulatory college level: robust organizational discipline processes independent from the regulatory college, a practice environment promoting competence, union representation, preference for a remedial approach to discipline, and lack of clarity about when to report to the regulatory authority. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified a number of reasons why discipline of hospital pharmacists by a regulatory body may be less prevalent than discipline relating to community pharmacists. The main reasons may be lack of clarity about when to report a case to the regulator and a lack of transparency, given that many cases are handled internally within hospitals. Environmental supports for competence and employee protections (e.g., through a union) may also reduce discipline cases. |
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