From hospital pharmacist to specialist pharmacist
16 of the 50 essential skills of a specialist pharmacist are already essential for a hospital pharmacist — about 32% 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.
- 16
- skills carry over
- 34
- would be new
- 32%
- of the target job covered
- 50
- essential skills of a specialist pharmacist
What a specialist pharmacist does
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.
What carries over
16 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
- advise on poisoning incidents
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate in healthcare
- follow clinical guidelines
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- provide specialist pharmaceutical care
- toxicology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
34 skillsEssential for a specialist 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.
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- botany
- cancer risks
- 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
- human anatomy
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- inorganic chemistry
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- microbiology-bacteriology
- organic chemistry
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical industry
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacology
- physics
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide medication information
- provide specialist pharmaceutical advice
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- respond to changing situations in health care
- review patient's medical data
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other moves from hospital pharmacist
2 roles- pharmacist24 skills in common
- pharmacy assistant11 skills in common
← hospital pharmacistspecialist pharmacist →The other way round
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How far are you from being a specialist pharmacist?
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