hospital pharmacist
Code 2262.1.2.1
Hospital pharmacists prepare, dispense and provide medication to patients in hospitals. They collaborate with healthcare personnel such as doctors and nurses to treat patients and also offer advice and information on medications.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- medicines
- biological chemistry
- toxicology
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- accept own accountability
- communicate in healthcare
- dispense medicines
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- manage medical supply chains
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- maintain pharmacy records
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- prepare medication from prescription
- provide specialist pharmaceutical care
- monitor patients' medication
- check information on prescriptions
- follow clinical guidelines
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
Transversal competences
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences