From hospital pharmacist to pharmacist
24 of the 65 essential skills of a pharmacist are already essential for a hospital pharmacist — about 37% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from hospital pharmacist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 24
- skills carry over
- 41
- would be new
- 37%
- of the target job covered
- 65
- essential skills of a pharmacist
What a pharmacist does
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.
What carries over
24 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- biological chemistry
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate in healthcare
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- dispense medicines
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- follow clinical guidelines
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage medical supply chains
- medicines
- monitor patients' medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- prepare medication from prescription
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- toxicology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
41 skillsEssential for a pharmacist and not for a hospital pharmacist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analytical chemistry
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- apply organisational techniques
- botany
- 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
- deal with emergency care situations
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure client orientation
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inorganic chemistry
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage medication safety issues
- manage personal professional development
- manufacture medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- organic chemistry
- participate in medical inventory control
- perform project management
- perform therapeutic drug monitoring
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacology
- physics
- prepare doses of medication according to patient needs
- process medical insurance claims
- provide health education
- provide medicines information
- refer healthcare users
- sales strategies
- supervise pharmaceutical staff
and 1 more
Other moves from hospital pharmacist
2 roles- specialist pharmacist16 skills in common
- pharmacy assistant11 skills in common
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How far are you from being a pharmacist?
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