Duties and tasks

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