Registered / Licensed Pharmacist

As a Pharmacist, you are responsible for controlling, dispensing, distributing and promoting generic medicines. You operate with legal and ethical guidelines to ensure the correct and safe supply of medicines in the store. You are involved in maintaining and improving people’s health by providing advice and information as well as supplying prescription medicines. As a a Pharmacist, you also sell over-the-counter medical products and instruct patients on the proper administration and use of these medicines.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fill prescription forms and prepare orders on the computer station
• Dispense drugs and counsel customers
• Assist new staff on actual store operations
• Order and store medicines, keeping them safe, pure, and effective
• Dispense medications following prescriptions issued by an authorized medical practitioner
• Oversee the performance of packaging, labeling, measuring, compounding, storing, charging, and recording medications used in patient care
• Review prescriptions for appropriateness of therapy to determine ingredients needed and to ensure correct dosage.
• Advise patients and care providers of potential drug interactions, possible side effects, storage information, and instructions on how to use medications.
• Present drug lectures to medical nursing staff, physicians, and other groups on matters pertaining to pharmacy.
• Prepare sterile products for patient administration; determines proper preparation, packaging, sterilization, storage, and stability requirements of the product.
• Assist clinicians in establishing the proper protocols, storage, distribution, and administration procedures for investigational drugs
• Train and supervise Pharmacy Assistants as assigned
• Develop or participate in clinical pharmaceutical research
• Serves as a preceptor for pharmacy interns