Occupation Atlaspharmacist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7c132147-428b-4ea3-87e1-70f7abb691ce
pharmacist
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.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
CRSConventional · Realistic · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional7.00
- R Realistic4.21
- S Social3.32
- I Investigative2.99
- E Enterprising2.52
- A Artistic1.00
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 Pharmacy Technicians (29-2052.00): 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 (65)
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
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- analytical chemistry
- applied therapeutics related to medicines
- apply organisational techniques
- biological chemistry
- botany
- 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
- contribute to public health campaigns
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- deal with emergency care situations
- dispense medicines
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure client orientation
- ensure pharmacovigilance
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- evaluate scientific data concerning medicines
- follow clinical guidelines
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inorganic chemistry
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmacy records
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage medical supply chains
- manage medication safety issues
- manage personal professional development
- manufacture medicines
- medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor patients' medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- 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
- process medical insurance claims
- provide health education
- provide medicines information
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- refer healthcare users
- sales strategies
- supervise pharmaceutical staff
- test medicinal products
- toxicology
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (21)
- accounting techniques
- advise on poisoning incidents
- apply blended learning
- conduct health related research
- homeopathy
- improve safety of medicines
- maintain medical devices
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- medical devices
- medical statistics
- nutrition
- operate cash register
- pedagogy
- phytotherapy
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- radiopharmaceuticals
- recruit employees
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
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 65 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
specialist pharmacist
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pharmacy assistant
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hospital pharmacist
24 shared · 6 more of its ownmonitor patients' medication, counsel healthcare users on medicines, dispense medicines, maintain pharmacy records
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pharmacy technician
23 shared · 15 more of its owncheck information on prescriptions, handle the logistics of medicinal products, ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy, maintain adequate medication storage conditions
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dietitian
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physiotherapist
20 shared · 70 more of its ownrefer healthcare users, pharmacology, advise on healthcare users' informed consent, manage healthcare users' data
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nurse responsible for general care
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