From specialist pharmacist to nurse responsible for general care
28 of the 92 essential skills of a nurse responsible for general care are already essential for a specialist pharmacist — about 30% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 28
- skills carry over
- 64
- would be new
- 30%
- of the target job covered
- 92
- essential skills of a nurse responsible for general care
What a nurse responsible for general care does
Nurses responsible for general care are in charge of promoting and restoring patients` health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families. They also supervise assigned team members.
What carries over
28 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- human anatomy
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- pharmacology
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
64 skillsEssential for a nurse responsible for general care and not for a specialist pharmacist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- acute care
- adapt leadership styles in healthcare
- address problems critically
- adolescence medicine
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- analyse quality of nurse care
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply sustainability principles in health care
- biological chemistry
- citizen involvement in healthcare
- coordinate care
- delegate emergency care
- diagnose nursing care
- dietetics
- disability care
- empower individuals, families and groups
- evaluate nursing care
- evidence-based nursing care
- first aid
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- have computer literacy
- health care legislation
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- impact of social contexts on health
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- infection control
- initiate life preserving measures
- innovation in nursing
- leadership in nursing
- manage information in health care
- manage multiple patients simultaneously
- manage personal professional development
- newborn care
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- paediatrics
and 24 more
Other moves from specialist pharmacist
2 roles- pharmacist31 skills in common
- physiotherapist29 skills in common
← specialist pharmacistnurse responsible for general care →The other way round
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How far are you from being a nurse responsible for general care?
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