specialist pharmacist
Code 2262.1.2
Specialist pharmacists provide specialist services for companies in the pharmacy industry and in hospital pharmacies. The role of the specialist pharmacist varies throughout Europe, subject to national rules and training.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- human anatomy
- botany
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacology
- pharmacotherapy
- physics
- pharmaceutical industry
- pharmacy law
- microbiology-bacteriology
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- inorganic chemistry
- organic chemistry
- pharmaceutical technology
- toxicology
Skills and competences
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- manage healthcare users' data
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply person-centred care
- listen actively
- promote inclusion
- provide specialist pharmaceutical care
- interact with healthcare users
- review patient's medical data
- follow clinical guidelines
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- educate on the prevention of illness
- provide medication information
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- provide specialist pharmaceutical advice
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- 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