PEOPLE AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

People And Personal Development In The Health Sector

People and personal development in the health sector

Unit 2: People and personal development in the health sector

Section 1: Explore a work role in the health sector

Describe the duties and responsibilities of your own role in the health sector. If you don't yet work in the sector, select one of the following roles to answer this assessment question.

Role

Duties

Responsibilities

Pharmacy technician

Maintain pharmacy inventory by checking stock of pharmaceutical to determine the inventory level, verifying receipt, supplies and medication.

Maintain a clean and fast pharmacy by complying with procedure, regulations and rule

Maintain records by filling physicians prescriptions and orders

Prepare reports by collecting, summarizing and formatting patient health information

Filling and labelling a prescription bottle

Receiving payment from customers

Compounding speciality medications

Inputting data about customer and prescribed data into the computers.

To interpret the written prescription, calculation of pharmacy and maintain accuracy when pharmacy is busy (Schmidt, et.al, 2004).

Identify the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for the work role you have chosen in question 1.

Role

Skills

Knowledge

Attitudes

Pharmacy technician

Require maths skills for calculation such as percentage, equations, algebraic and fractions

Strong communication and interpretational skills because he/she has to work broad range of health setting such as hospital, mail order pharmacy retail pharmacies, insurance billing offices and home infusion services (Hammond, et.al, 1999).

Good knowledge of autonomy, physiology and chemistry

Knowledge of Electronics and computers such as electronic equipment, processors, application and programming, computer software and hardware and chips.

Knowledge of English content and structure, including the meaning of spelling words, grammar and composition rule (Schmidt, et.al, 2004).

Attitude towards the clinical services by the profession in general where they thought well trained, licensed or event the technician opportunity to focus more on patient in clinical service settings.

Section 2: Know how to contribute to a personal development plan

Identify the skills that are needed for a particular health sector role (this could be the role you work in now or one that you would like to do in the future). Note these skills in the table below and then identify which of these skills you already have.

Role

Skills needed

Skills I already have

Pharmacy Technician

I need strong interpersonal and communication skills because I did not have much experience on work with different clinical health settings.

Lack of computer and electronic skills

I am good in both Maths and English.

Good knowledge of chemistry and ...