Retail Pharmacist (251513)

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Receiving prescriptions, checking patients' medicine histories, and ensuring optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing
• Preparing or supervising the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions
• Advising prescribers on drug incompatibility and contra-indications
• Reviewing and monitoring the medicine therapy of individual patients, and assessing the effectiveness of the total medicine therapy
• Maintaining prescription files and recording issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs
• Storing and preserving vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration
• Supplying non-prescription medicines, and diagnostic and therapeutic aids
• Supervising and coordinating the work of Pharmacy Technicians, pharmacy interns and Pharmacy Sales Assistants
• Conducting research to develop and improve pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and related chemical products
• Conferring with Chemists, Engineering Professionals and other professionals about manufacturing techniques and ingredients
• Testing and analysing drugs to determine their identity, purity and strength in relation to specified standards
• Developing standards for drugs used in pharmaceuticals