Activities of pharmaceutical specialists for the preservation and promotion of public health: profiling of pharmaceutical positions

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29296/25419218-2022-04-05
Issue: 
4
Year: 
2022

I.A. Kirshchina(1), A.V. Soloninina(1), A.A. Karimova(2)
1-Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy, Polevaya, 2, Perm, 614990, Russian Federation;
2-Ural State Medical University, Repina, 3, Ekaterinburg, 620028, Russian Federation

Introduction. The disclosure of the pharmaceutical specialists’ professional opportunities of in the field of health protection is possible only through the formation of a stable cluster of health-saving competencies that form a catalog of professional requirements within various profiles of specialists. Objective: methodological substantiation of professional competencies and profiling of positions of pharmaceutical specialists in the implementation of health-saving activities in society. Material and methods. Position profiling was carried out using the method of expert assessments and their software statistical processing during the rank analysis of variance in the program Statistica 10. Results. The necessity of forming special professional competencies of pharmaceutical specialists in the field of health protection, in particular, the ability and readiness of pharmaceutical specialists for personalized pharmaceutical counseling of the population, information support of medical specialists and activities in the field of pharmaceutical education, is substantiated. The positions of Pharmacist and Clinical Pharmacist were profiled with the allocation of qualification, competence and functional, social and personal profiles of these positions. It is proposed to include four labor functions in the professional standard "Clinical pharmacist" in the field of information and consulting support for the rational choice of pharmacotherapy, personification of pharmaceutical services, conducting preventive sanitary and educational activities and promoting a healthy lifestyle. The results of the expert assessment made it possible to determine the significance of competencies in the context of recommended pharmaceutical positions, confirmed the high level of expert expectations from these specialists in the implementation of their labor functions and allowed to form a contour of social and personal characteristics for the position of Clinical Pharmacist. Conclusion. The key professional competencies of pharmaceutical specialists in the field of health care have been identified, amendments to a number of regulatory documents have been recommended, approximate reference profiles of specialists (Pharmacist and Clinical Pharmacist) have been developed to carry out activities in the field of public health protection.

Keywords: 
profiling of pharmaceutical positions
clinical pharmacist
health care

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