From pharmacy technician to pharmacist
23 of the 65 essential skills of a pharmacist are already essential for a pharmacy technician — about 35% 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.
- 23
- skills carry over
- 42
- would be new
- 35%
- 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
23 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- apply organisational techniques
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with customers
- 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
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- follow clinical guidelines
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- manage healthcare users' data
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- process medical insurance claims
- provide health education
- refer healthcare users
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
42 skillsEssential for a pharmacist and not for a pharmacy technician. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- analytical chemistry
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- biological chemistry
- botany
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- dispense medicines
- ensure client orientation
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inorganic chemistry
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage medical supply chains
- manage medication safety issues
- manage personal professional development
- manufacture medicines
- medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor patients' medication
- organic chemistry
- participate in medical inventory control
- perform project management
- perform therapeutic drug monitoring
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacology
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- physics
- prepare doses of medication according to patient needs
- prepare medication from prescription
- provide medicines information
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- sales strategies
- supervise pharmaceutical staff
and 2 more
Other moves from pharmacy technician
2 roles- pharmacy assistant35 skills in common
- advanced physiotherapist21 skills in common
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How far are you from being a pharmacist?
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