School of Pharmacy

Students must be capable of achieving the following competencies and outcomes by graduation:
 

1. Communicate appropriately and effectively with patients and the public.
2. Obtain relevant patient medical, social, and family history.
3. Record, maintain and store, full, accurate, comprehensive records.
4. Respond appropriately to medical emergencies, including provision of first aid.
5. Analyse prescriptions for validity and clarity.
6. Provide, monitor, and modify prescribed treatment to maximise health outcomes.
7. Use pharmaceutical calculations to verify the safety of doses and administration rates.
8. Apply pharmaceutical principles to the formulation, preparation, and packaging of products.
9. Procure, store, dispense, supply, distribute and dispose of medicines safely.
10. Consult and follow advice of a suitably qualified professional from any risk posed to service users by your own health.

Please note; 

To describe an individual as ‘Fit to Practise’ in the context of certain professions is to say he or she possesses the attributes considered necessary in an individual to allow that individual to practise as an independent practitioner in their relevant profession. For Pharmacists, the Fitness to practice is defined within the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland Code of Conduct for Pharmacists