Job Description

rovide prescribed medications, and other pharmaceuticals, compound medications according to professional standards and practices. Advise/consult with patients, families, medical and nursing staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review patient’s drug regimen on a concurrent basis and verify the physician’s original order for appropriateness prior to dispensing.
• Communicate any suggested changes to the prescribing physician.
• Prepare, check and dispense outpatient prescriptions issued by physicians.
• Prepare, package, dispense and deliver unit dose medication in accordance with standard procedures and techniques for hospitalized patients.
• Provide patient education, counselling regarding drug therapy, the effects, dosage, route of administration of the drug treatments, drug related interactions, particularly for those patients who require complex drug therapy;
• Prepare drug formulations, strength, dosage forms, and packages that are useful in the care of patient and not available commercially but approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee.
• Prepare and quality-check all sterile medications under special conditions (e.g. intravenous medications, eye drops, etc.).
• Monitor every stage of medication therapy to improve all aspects of delivery and reporting of patient side effects and/or medication errors.
• Order pharmaceutical supplies, and drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
• Maintain and control of the floor stocks of drugs kept in the wards and nursing units.
• Perform routine inspection of all drug storage area within the hospital in order to ensure that no outdated or unusable drugs are present.
• Respond to medication-related queries from healthcare professionals within the hospital.
• Participate in evaluating new medications and recommend new medicines that are the safest and most effective for individual patient needs.
• Keep records such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, inspection reports, etc.

Education and license:

• Bachelor Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Good command of written and spoken English.
• Frequent computer user.
• Good communication skills for dealing with patients and healthcare professionals.
• Able to work carefully, methodically and accurately with medicines and doses.
• Able to use scientific knowledge to solve problems.