| 2. Patient focus |
1.1 Medicine selection |
Develop criteria for selecting medicines into a hospital formulary concerning pharmaceutical chemistry, formulation, quality standards and therapeutic properties |
| 1.2 Medicine procurement |
Develop efficient inventory system management |
| Develop procedures for medicine storage and delivery |
| Implement and supervise procurement systems |
| 1.3 Compounding |
Formulate and prepare medicines (extemporaneous, cytotoxic, total parenteral nutrition, or small batch preparation) |
| Develop protocols for ensuring quality of prepared medicines |
| Choose suitable packaging for intended use and identify storage conditions |
| 1.4 Consultation |
Discuss and advise healthcare providers and clients on issues related to pharmaceutical products and quality standards |
| 2. Patient focus |
2.1 Assessing for services needed |
Identify pharmaceutical services that a client needs according to the person’s health status, behaviors, and contexts |
| Assess and diagnose a health condition based on subjective and objective evidence |
| 2.2 Ensuring appropriate prescription |
Provide evidence for optimizing prescribing decisions (ensuring appropriate medicines, route, time, doses, and forms) |
| 2.3 Dispensing |
Validate prescriptions for accuracy and legitimacy |
| Identify medicine-medicine, medicine-condition, medicine-food interactions |
| 2.4 Consultation and counseling |
Discuss with prescribers on appropriate medicine selection based on patients’ targeted outcomes |
| Discuss and advise multidisciplinary team members on appropriate medicine administration based on patients’ targeted outcomes |
| Discuss and advise patients and care givers on appropriate medicine use based on patients’ contexts |
| 2.5 Monitoring and documentation |
Develop protocols for monitoring medicine uses and pharmaceutical services needed along the treatment pathways |
| Identify, prioritize, and resolve medicine-related problems |
| Document, reconcile and update patient medication history and received interventions |
| 3. Healthcare system focus |
3.1 Information management |
Identify sources, search information systematically, evaluate and provide evidence-based medicine information appropriate for the needs of clients |
| Counsel patients, clients, and population on safe and rational use of medicines |
| Collect and analyze data for evidence-based decisions using appropriate research methods |
| Understand process and assessments for quality and safety, including pharmacoeconomics |
| 3.2 Policy and legal practice |
Demonstrate knowledge in healthcare systems regarding policies, financing, information systems, workforces, service delivery, and access to essential medicines and health technologies |
| Demonstrate knowledge in legal and regulatory practices along pharmaceutical supply chain |
| Demonstrate understanding in professional codes of ethics |
| 3.3 Systems management |
Identify and resolve risk management issues to improve quality and safety of medicine use and services |
| Initiate and implement programs or interventions to improve medicine use systems |
| 4. Community focus |
4.1 Health promotion |
Assess and support local and national health priorities and initiatives |
| Initiate and implement programs or interventions to promote healthy lifestyles, disease prevention, or consumer protection |
| 4.2 Education and training |
Educate population to access and understand health information on selection and rational use of herbal medicines, health products, and medicines |
| Provide training programs for community staff and leaders on knowledge and skills essentials for promoting health |
| 5. Personal competencies |
5.1 Self-management skills |
Demonstrate ethical awareness and personal and professional integrity |
| Demonstrate caring and service mind |
| Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in uncertain situations |
| Demonstrate leadership in initiative and management |
| Demonstrate systems thinking in understanding complex situations and interconnections between things |
| Continuous self-improvement |
| 5.2 People skills |
Communicate effectively with the targeted clients (patients, physicians, staff, or population) |
| Collaborate with others to work towards the target, take responsibility and respect diversity |
| 5.3 Work skills |
Demonstrate accountability by taking responsibility for work activities as committed |
| Analyze situations, critically decide on options, and initiate solutions (problem-solving) |
| Accomplish tasks through concerns for all involving parts (attention to details) |
| Use digital information and technology tools in performing tasks |
