Description: Pharmacist
Pharmacist Job Purpose: Serves patients by preparing medications; giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team; monitoring patient drug therapies.
Pharmacist Job Duties:
•Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
•Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
•Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
•Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
•Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patients on drug therapies.
•Develops hospital staff's pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
•Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspections; maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervising the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions.
•Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
•Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
•Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Skills/Qualifications: Analyzing Information , Administering Medication, Judgment, Verbal Communication, FDA Health Regulations, Pharmacology, Managing Processes, Legal Compliance, Productivity, Quality Focus, Attention to Detail
Pharmacist Job Purpose: Serves patients by preparing medications; giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team; monitoring patient drug therapies.
Pharmacist Job Duties:
•Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
•Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
•Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
•Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
•Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patients on drug therapies.
•Develops hospital staff's pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
•Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspections; maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervising the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions.
•Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
•Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
•Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Skills/Qualifications: Analyzing Information , Administering Medication, Judgment, Verbal Communication, FDA Health Regulations, Pharmacology, Managing Processes, Legal Compliance, Productivity, Quality Focus, Attention to Detail
Pharmacy career in the United States
Pharmacists - Working conditions
Pharmacists work in clean, well-lighted, and well-ventilated areas. Many pharmacists spend most of their workday on their feet.
When working with sterile or dangerous pharmaceutical products, pharmacists wear gloves and masks and work with other special protective equipment.
Many community and hospital pharmacies are open for extended hours or around the clock, so pharmacists may work nights, weekends, and holidays.
Consultant pharmacists may travel to nursing homes or other facilities to monitor patients’ drug therapy.
Pharmacists are becoming more involved in making decisions regarding drug therapy and in counseling patients.
About 21 percent of pharmacists work part time. Most full-time salaried pharmacists work approximately 40 hours a week. Some, including many self-employed pharmacists, work more than 50 hours a week.
Though earnings are high, some pharmacists work long hours, nights, weekends, and holidays.
Increasingly, pharmacists are involved in patient care and therapy, work that they have in common with physicians and surgeons.
Salary
The median expected salary for a typical Pharmacist in the United States is $119,870. This basic market pricing report was prepared using our Certified Compensation Professionals' analysis of survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at employers of all sizes, industries and geographies.
Pharmacists - Working conditions
Pharmacists work in clean, well-lighted, and well-ventilated areas. Many pharmacists spend most of their workday on their feet.
When working with sterile or dangerous pharmaceutical products, pharmacists wear gloves and masks and work with other special protective equipment.
Many community and hospital pharmacies are open for extended hours or around the clock, so pharmacists may work nights, weekends, and holidays.
Consultant pharmacists may travel to nursing homes or other facilities to monitor patients’ drug therapy.
Pharmacists are becoming more involved in making decisions regarding drug therapy and in counseling patients.
About 21 percent of pharmacists work part time. Most full-time salaried pharmacists work approximately 40 hours a week. Some, including many self-employed pharmacists, work more than 50 hours a week.
Though earnings are high, some pharmacists work long hours, nights, weekends, and holidays.
Increasingly, pharmacists are involved in patient care and therapy, work that they have in common with physicians and surgeons.
Salary
The median expected salary for a typical Pharmacist in the United States is $119,870. This basic market pricing report was prepared using our Certified Compensation Professionals' analysis of survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at employers of all sizes, industries and geographies.