pharmacy technician
ISCO: 2262. Skills: 52. Essential: 38.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply organisational techniques
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate by telephone
- 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 quality assurance for pharmaceutical products
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmaceutical records
- manage healthcare users' data
- medicines for self-medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- operate cash register
- prepare prescription labels
- process medical insurance claims
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- refer healthcare users
- report medication interaction to pharmacist
- respond to changing situations in health care
- take pharmaceutical inventory
- transfer medication
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on poisoning incidents
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- manage schedule of tasks
- prepare doses of medication according to patient needs
- prepare intravenous packs
- prepare medication from prescription
- provide medication information
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- use foreign languages for health-related research