Pharmacist
Pharmacist
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Job Description
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..
Top 36 specific things you need to know
As a Pharmacist, you will need to master following:
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- biological chemistry
- botany
- check information on prescriptions
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage medication safety issues
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor patients' medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- operate open source software
- perform therapeutic drug monitoring
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacotherapy
- prepare doses of medication according to patient needs
- promote inclusion
- provide medicines information
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- refer healthcare users
- sales strategies
- supervise pharmaceutical staff
- test medicinal products
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Top 68 general things you need to know
More generally, a pharmacist is also versed in:
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- analytical chemistry
- apply for research funding
- apply organisational techniques
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communicate with customers
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct research across disciplines
- contribute to public health campaigns
- deal with emergency care situations
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- dispense medicines
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure client orientation
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- evaluate research activities
- follow clinical guidelines
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- inorganic chemistry
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage medical supply chains
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- manufacture medicines
- medicines
- mentor individuals
- organic chemistry
- participate in medical inventory control
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacology
- pharmacy law
- physics
- prepare medication from prescription
- process medical insurance claims
- promote inclusion in research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- provide health education
- publish academic research
- respond to changing situations in health care
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- think analytically
- toxicology
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- write scientific publications
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent pharmacist
It also helps to know the following:
- nutrition
- operate cash point
- operate cash register
- phytotherapy
- radiopharmaceuticals
- accounting techniques
- apply blended learning
- conduct health related research
- homeopathy
- maintain medical devices
- medical devices
- medical statistics
- pedagogy
- recruit employees
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
Top employers for this job
Pharmacist (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
- Keywords :
- Ui designer,
- developer