LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Pharmacy chains are adjusting hours nationwide owed to staffing shortages.
CVS Pharmacy has announced thousands of their locations volition trim hours owed to a deficiency of staffing. Last month, Walgreens and Rite Aid already shortened their hours for the aforesaid reason.
The University of Kentucky is location to the world’s largest pharmacy acquisition and probe building, and the pharmacy schoolhouse is ranked fig 6 successful the nation, according to a 2020 U.S. News and World Report.
“In the past 20 years, we’ve opened much pharmacy schools successful the United States than ever before, and we’re astir apt producing a precise ample fig of graduates successful the United States. But what’s astir apt happening is that pharmacy arsenic a assemblage has go truthful diverse,” says UK College of Pharmacy Professor and Associate Dean Frank Romanelli.
Romanelli says the pandemic enactment a strain connected pharmacists but besides highlighted the important enactment they do.
“Thank God pharmacists are trained to present immunizations due to the fact that a batch of us, looking backmost now, wonderment however we would’ve ever person been capable to administer the superior bid and each of the boosters had pharmacists and pharmacies not been involved,” said Romanelli.
Romanelli says galore students are moving to different paths post-graduation; less are staying with accepted retail medicine.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the request for pharmacists has risen arsenic they grow their roles beyond filling prescriptions.
“I deliberation that benignant of myopic azygous spot that everyone went to, the assemblage pharmacy isn’t arsenic existent contiguous arsenic it was 20 years ago,” Romanelli said. “Pharmacists are moving to each sorts of antithetic types of occupations.”
Employment maturation for pharmacists is projected to turn lone 2%, overmuch slower than different occupations.
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