Occupation Atlashospital pharmacist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5fd099da-218a-460e-bd5b-b42f1b76c67c
hospital pharmacist
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.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ISCInvestigative · Social · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.67
- S Social4.88
- C Conventional4.56
- R Realistic2.82
- E Enterprising2.62
- A Artistic1.48
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Pharmacists (29-1051.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (30)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on poisoning incidents
- apply context specific clinical competences
- biological chemistry
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate in healthcare
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- dispense medicines
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- follow clinical guidelines
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage hospital-acquired infections
- manage medical supply chains
- medicines
- monitor patients' medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacotherapy
- pharmacy law
- prepare medication from prescription
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- provide specialist pharmaceutical care
- toxicology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (22)
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- conduct health related research
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- improve safety of medicines
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- listen actively
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- manage medication safety issues
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform therapeutic drug monitoring
- physics
- prescribe medication
- process medical insurance claims
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- test medicinal products
- treat endocrine disorders
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 30 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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pharmacy technician
9 shared · 29 more of its owncheck information on prescriptions, ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy, maintain adequate medication storage conditions, obtain healthcare user's medical status information
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biomedical scientist
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8 shared · 11 more of its ownpharmacotherapy, pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacy law
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specialist nurse
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