Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants

Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants perform a variety of tasks associated with dispensing medicinal products under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional.

Job Responsibilities

• Preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional
• Dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors, veterinarians or other health porfessionals
• Receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical record-keeping standards
• Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs
• Filling and labelling containers with prescribed medications
• Assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a pharmacist for medication information
• Pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establishing and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients
• Ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals and supplies, and entering inventory data into record-keeping systems
• Cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds