Job Responsibilities:

Compounding and dispensing medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients.
Reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability for the patient.
Providing information and advice about drugs, their side effects, correct dosage, and proper storage.
Keeping records such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, and registries of poisons, narcotics or controlled drugs.
Planning, implementing or maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging and labelling pharmaceuticals according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
Assessing the identity, strength or purity of medications.
Working with other healthcare professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs.
Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
Maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
Analyzing, prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
Advising customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment or healthcare supplies.