Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications.

Other names for Pharmacy Technicians: Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPHT), Drug Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Care Associate, Pharmacist Assistant, Pharmacist Technician, Pharmacy Laboratory Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Technologist,

• 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.
• Fill bottles with prescribed medications and type and affix labels.
• 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 and work areas, and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enter inventory data into computer.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Add measured drugs or nutrients to intravenous solutions under sterile conditions to prepare intravenous (IV) packs under pharmacist supervision.
• 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 and equipment dispensed to hospital patients, and enter data in computer.
• Deliver medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations or surgery.
• Price stock and mark items for sale.
• Maintain and merchandise home health-care products and services.

• Microscope slides
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Sterile or aseptic processing or filling machines
• Filling or sealing auger dose machines
• Laboratory mills
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Gas burners
• Cash registers
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Laboratory mills
• Laser printers
• Sterile or aseptic processing or filling machines
• Desktop computers
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory balances
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Pharmaceutical filters or ultra filters
• Laboratory washing machines
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Laboratory mills
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
• Compact disc CD or labeling printers
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes
• Point of sale POS terminal
• Medication or pill dispensers or accessories
• Sterile or aseptic processing or filling machines
• Laboratory balances
• Hydrometers
• Dry heat or hot air sterilizers
• Medical syringes without needles
• Tablet counters
• Multipurpose or general test tubes
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Filling or sealing auger dose machines
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Bi distillation units

Inventory management software

Label making software

Accounting software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Data base user interface and query software

Medical software

Point of sale POS software