APhA | APhA and NASPA Release Fourth and Year-end Pharmacy Workplace and Well-being Reporting (PWWR) Findings

Published on May 20, 2023

Launched in October 2021, PWWR serves as a safe space to submit both positive and negative pharmacy workplace experiences in a confidential and anonymous manner. To date, nearly 1,300 reports have been submitted to PWWR from pharmacy supervisors to pharmacy support personnel in nearly every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The goal of PWWR is to tell the stories of those who submit their experiences so that profession may begin to act on the findings and learnings. The learnings from this cycle’s analysis provide a roadmap for pharmacy personnel employers and the profession at-large to address patient/consumer harassment concerns and barriers to staff/management communication and celebrate positive experiences preventing medication errors and safety by design.

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