What Does a Pharmacy Technician Do?
Pharmacy Technician duties can be characterized under the following three function areas:
- Assisting the pharmacist in serving patients
- Maintaining medication and inventory control systems
- Participating in the administration and management of pharmacy practice
Depending upon the type of pharmacy, these duties can include:
- Assisting the pharmacist in labeling and filling prescriptions
- Assisting patients in dropping off and picking up prescriptions
- Entering prescriptions into the computer
- Verifying that customers receive correct prescription(s)
- Compounding oral solutions, ointments, and creams
- Scheduling and maintaining workflow
- Prepackaging bulk medications
- Screening calls for pharmacists
- Ordering medication
- Working with insurance carriers to obtain payments and refilling authority
- Preparing medication inventories
- Preparing chemotherapeutic agents
- Compounding total parenteral nutrition solutions
- Compounding intravenous admixtures
- Assisting in outpatient dispensing
- Assisting in inpatient dispensing
- Purchasing and billing
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