"Seorang apoteker memegang peranan penting di industri farmasi, apotek dan pemerintahan. Apoteker harus memenuhi standar kompetensi sebagai persyaratan untuk memasuki dunia kerja dan menjalani praktik profesi. Standar kompetensi apoteker Indonesia terdiri dari sepuluh standar kompetensi yaitu praktik kefarmasian secara professional dan etik, optimalisasi penggunaan sediaan farmasi, dispensing sediaan farmasi dan alat kesehatan, pemberian informasi sediaan farmasi dan alat kesehatan, formulasi dan produksi sediaan farmasi, upaya preventif dan promotif kesehatan masyarakat, pengelolaan sediaan farmasi dan alat kesehatan, komunikasi efektif, ketrampilan organisasi dan hubungan interpersonal, peningkatan kompetensi diri. Sebagai bekal dan pengalaman calon apoteker untuk dapat memahami peran apoteker dan meningkatkan kompetensi, maka dilaksanakan Praktik Kerja Profesi Apoteker (PKPA) di PT. Bintang Toedjoe Site Pulogadung, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan Republik Indonesia dan Apotek Atrika selama periode bulan Januari-April 2019. Selama PKPA berlangsung, diharapkan calon apoteker dapat memperluas wawasan dan pengalaman untuk melakukan pekerjaan kefarmasian di tempat praktik kerja profesi.
An apothecary has an important role in pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy and government. They have to fulfill the standard of competence as a requirement for working environment and professional practice. There are ten standard of competence that an apothecary must have consists of pharmaceutical practices with professional ethics, optimization of the use of pharmaceutical preparations, dispensing pharmaceutical preparations and medical devices, provision of information on pharmaceutical preparations and medical devices, formulation and production of pharmaceutical preparations, efforts to prevent and promote public health, management of pharmaceutical preparations and medical devices, effective communication, skills organization and interpersonal relationships, increasing self competence. As a stock and experience of prospective pharmacists to understand the role of pharmacists and increasing the competence, an apothecary professional work practices or as known as apothecary internship program are implemented in PT. Bintang Toedjoe Site Pulogadung, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan Republik Indonesia and Atrika Apotek Period January-April 2019. During that internship is expected that apothecary can explore the knowledge and experiences for doing pharmaceutical work in professional practice places.
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