2262-Pharmacists

Tasks include:

• receiving prescriptions, checking patients' medicine histories, and ensuring proper 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
• providing information and advice to prescribers and clients regarding drug interactions, incompatibility and contra-indications, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage
• collaborating with other healthcare professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the medicine therapy of individual patients, and the effectiveness of particular drugs or therapies
• 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 pharmaceutical technicians, 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
• evaluating labels, packaging and advertising of drug products
• developing information and risks of particular drugs