Ankara Universitesi Eczacilik Fakultesi Dergisi, cilt.34, sa.3, ss.191-206, 2005 (Scopus)
"Time Management" connotes that a person's self management the course of time. When the time is used effectively and productively in pharmacy, pharmacist's productivity and so quality of the service for the patient will improve. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the pharmacists who take part in carrying out an important service are good time managers or not, what kind of time traps the pharmacists get caught, what are the solutions to escape from these time traps and what are the troubles because of not managing the time in an effective and productive way. The materials of this study are the questionnaire formst filled face to face with 213 pharmacists who have community pharmacies in Ankara. Research data is analyzed with statistical package program SPSS (version 10.0). According to the results of this study; there are significant differences about planning side of time management relative to gender, t (211) = 2,23, p<.,05. It is understood that male pharmacists (X=50.82) are using their time more effectively than female pharmacists (X= 4.,47). Among the behaviors of the application side of time management, no significant differences were found relative to gender.