Job Description:
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
- Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians’ work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
- Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counselling patients on drug therapies.
- Develops hospital staff’s pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
- Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspections.
- maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervising the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Check prescriptions to make sure there are no errors and that they’re appropriate and safe for the individual patients.
- Provides advices on the dosage of the medicines and the most appropriate from of medication, for example, tablets, injection, ointment, or inhaler.
- Participate in ward rounds to take patients drug histories.
- Liaise with other medical staff on problem patients may experience when taking their medicines.
- Discuss treatments with patients relative, community pharmacists and general physicians.
- Make sure medicines are stored appropriately and securely.
- Supervise the work of less experienced and less qualified staff.
- Answer question about medicines from within the hospitals, other hospitals and the general public.
- Keep up to date with, and contribute to research and development.
- Write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement hospital regulations.
- Provide information on expenditure on drugs.
- Prepare and quality – check sterile medications, for example, intravenous medications.