pharmacist
Pharmacists prepare, dispense, and provide prescriptions for, over the counter medication. They offer clinical information on medicines, report suspected adverse reactions, and provide personalised support to patients. Pharmacists formulate and test medications in laboratories, and store, preserve, and distribute them.
Also called: practitioner of pharmacology, pharmacy practitioner, dispensing chemist, pharmacologist, pharmacology practitioner, retail pharmacist, practitioner of pharmacy
- 65
- essential skills
- 21
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2262
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- specialist pharmacistWhat changes?31 skills in common
- pharmacy assistantWhat changes?25 skills in common
- hospital pharmacistWhat changes?24 skills in common
- pharmacy technician23 skills in common
- dietitian21 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general care20 skills in common
- physiotherapist20 skills in common
- audiologist19 skills in common
Essential skills
65- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- analytical chemistry
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- apply organisational techniques
- biological chemistry
- botany
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with customers
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- deal with emergency care situations
- dispense medicines
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure client orientation
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- follow clinical guidelines
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inorganic chemistry
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage medical supply chains
- manage medication safety issues
- manage personal professional development
- manufacture medicines
- medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor patients' medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- organic chemistry
- participate in medical inventory control
- perform project management
- perform therapeutic drug monitoring
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacology
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- physics
- prepare doses of medication according to patient needs
- prepare medication from prescription
- process medical insurance claims
- provide health education
- provide medicines information
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- refer healthcare users
- sales strategies
- supervise pharmaceutical staff
- test medicinal products
- toxicology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional skills
21- accounting techniques
- advise on poisoning incidents
- apply blended learning
- conduct health related research
- homeopathy
- improve safety of medicines
- maintain medical devices
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- medical devices
- medical statistics
- nutrition
- operate cash register
- pedagogy
- phytotherapy
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- radiopharmaceuticals
- recruit employees
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
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