Compound and dispense medications following prescriptions issued by physicians, dentists, or other authorized medical practitioners.

Other names for Pharmacists: Apothecary, Clinical Pharmacist, Doctor of Pharmacy, Druggist, Hospital Pharmacist, Industrial Pharmacist, Pharmacist, Pharmacist Apprentice, Pharmacist in Charge (PIC), Pharmacy Consultant, Pharmacy Intern, Pharmacy Services Director, Prescriptionist, Radiopharmacist, Registered Pharmacist, Staff Pharmacist,

• Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.
• Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage.
• Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
• Order and purchase pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, and drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
• Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, and registries of poisons, narcotics, and controlled drugs.
• Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
• Advise customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment and health-care supplies.
• Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drugs and drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics.
• Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
• Offer health promotion and prevention activities, for example, training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors.
• Refer patients to other health professionals and agencies when appropriate.
• Prepare sterile solutions and infusions for use in surgical procedures, emergency rooms, or patients' homes.
• Plan, implement, and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
• Assay radiopharmaceuticals, verify rates of disintegration, and calculate the volume required to produce the desired results, to ensure proper dosages.
• Manage pharmacy operations, hiring and supervising staff, performing administrative duties, and buying and selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise.
• Work in hospitals, clinics, or for Health Management Organizations (HMOs), dispensing prescriptions, serving as a medical team consultants, or specializing in specific drug therapy areas such as oncology or nuclear pharmacotherapy.
• Assess the identity, strength and purity of medications.
• Teach pharmacy students serving as interns in preparation for their graduation or licensure.
• Publish educational information for other pharmacists, doctors, or patients.

• Ampoule filling equipment
• Radiation detectors
• Sterile or aseptic processing or filling machines
• Bar code reader equipment
• Tablet counters
• Electronic toploading balances
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Pharmaceutical filters or ultra filters
• Geiger counters
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Hemacytometer sets
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Patient care beds or accessories for general use
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
• Label making machines
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Medical radiological shielding wall or ceiling or floor installed panels
• Medical radiological shielding freestanding or portable screens
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Medication or pill dispensers or accessories
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Calibration weights or weight sets
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Pestle or mortars
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Hypodermic needles
• Ostomy starter kits
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Personal computers
• Pestle or mortars
• Medical radiological shielding freestanding or portable screens
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Medical radiation dosimeters
• Filling or sealing auger dose machines
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Medical syringes without needles
• Tablet computers
• Laboratory balances
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Wheelchairs

Inventory management software

Label making software

Accounting software

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Computer based training software

Analytical or scientific software

Internet browser software