Background: Medication management is considered to be highly important area of health care. It is ensured by different health care professionals, unfortunately their competences are not always clear. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe role and formal competences of nurses in medication management in the Czech Republic. Methods: Literature for this review was identified using electronic searches of databases Medline, ProQuest Central, EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect and Web of Science, hand searches of legal norms and hand searches of professional Czech and Slovak journals. Results: Medication management is highly regulated area covered by many legal norms having different levels of authority. Although many of the activities related to medication management are described in details, certain activities remain poorly defined, everyday practice can differ, and certain health care professionals are exceeding their competencies related to medication management. Conclusion: To ensure adequate quality of care, formal competencies related to medication management should be effectively matched with responsibilities and duties in real practice.

• MeSH
• Clinical Competence * MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Medication Therapy Management * standards   organization & administration   MeSH
• Nursing Staff classification   standards   MeSH
• Nurse's Role MeSH
• Nurses * classification   standards   MeSH
• Check Tag
• Humans MeSH
• Publication type
• Review MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH

• MeSH
• Inpatients psychology   MeSH
• Data Interpretation, Statistical MeSH
• Nursing Staff ethics   classification   psychology   MeSH
• Ethics, Professional MeSH
• Surveys and Questionnaires MeSH
• Patient Satisfaction MeSH
• Nurse-Patient Relations MeSH
• Nurse Clinicians ethics   psychology   MeSH