Improvement in pharmacist's performance facilitated by an adapted competency-based General Level Framework

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-118

  Coombes, Ian ^a   Avent, Minyon ^b   Cardiff, Lynda ^b   Bettenay, Karen ^b   Coombes, Judith ^c   Whitfield, Karen ^d   Stokes, Julie ^b   Davies, Graham ^e   Bates, Ian ^f  

^a Safe Medication Management Unit   (Australia)

^b Medication Services Queensland   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RATING SCALE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77954885613     PISSN: 1445937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2055-2335.2010.tb00517.x     Document Type: Article

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