The only way round is through: Professional identity in pharmacy education and practice

The roles of pharmacists are transforming throughout history and modern pharmacist has a crucial role in ensuring the efficacy and safety of applied drugs. It is a wonder that the pharmacy profession is still being viewed through an antiquated lens that is inconsistent with the diversity and extent of pharmacists’ current scope of practice. There is still much debate in the academic as well as the policy literature about the role of pharmacists and their unique contribution to healthcare. However, pharmacists have been variously characterized as makers of medicines, as pill pushers, pill counters, and bottle labelers, as managers, and as entrepreneurs. Given this variety of roles, the ‘professional identity’ of pharmacists could be viewed as problematic or confused. Having a clear professional identity provides a sense of worth, belonging, or purpose for the individual as well as the group and if that identity is unambiguous then the profession also becomes clearer and more focused. Thus, the purpose of this article was to provide an idea of the universal professional identity of pharmacists as healthcare practitioners’ under the Global Pharmacy Council (GPC). This GPC will enhance the impact of the profession of pharmacy on people’s lives in the context of healthcare trends.

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“…Interest in the importance of professional identity and its influence on pharmacy practice is growing [ 46 - 48 ] . Elvey et al.…”

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A Portrait of the Pharmacy Profession Globally: Pharmacist Universal Professional Identity and Establishment of Global Pharmacy Council

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“…LETTER TO THE EDITOR 1129797C PHXXX10.1177/17151635221129797C P J / R P CC P J / R P C letter2022 Problems with professional identity A colleague of mine passed along the recent CPJ guest editorial on professional identity in pharmacy education and practice, 1 and I felt I had to provide my comments to you. As a Black female pharmacist in today's political environment, I feel the perspectives expressed in this article were entirely accurate and highlighted the risks inherent in this concept of professional identity.…”

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Problems with professional identity

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2022

Can Pharm J

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“…Barriers to a full scope of practice 9,10,11,24,25,27,37,41,43,54,55,57,59 : This has been a favourite topic, because many of the barriers are self-induced. Someone has to talk about them openly if we are to change things.…”

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“…Meagen Rosenthal and Zubin Austin on barriers to practice change—our nature vs nurture. 24,25 We also review the tension between employers and pharmacists with regards to patient care and staffing, 27,57 a leadership crisis in pharmacy, 37 poor professional identity, 41,59 remuneration, 43 our images shared on social media that show drug distribution rather than images of patient care 54 and stigma. 55…”

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