Description
Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.
- • Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
- • Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
- • Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
- • Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
- • Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
- • Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
- • Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
- • Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
- • Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
- • Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers.
- • Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.
- • Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.
- • Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.
- • Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
- • Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery.
- • Price stock and mark items for sale.
- • Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services.
- • Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
- • Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
- • Restock intravenous (IV) supplies and add measured drugs or nutrients to IV solutions under sterile conditions to prepare IV packs for various uses, such as chemotherapy medication.
- • Enter prescription information into computer databases.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
