| Top Tasks (Specific duties and responsibilities of this job.) |
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| 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. |
| Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications. |
| Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, or registries of poisons, narcotics, or controlled drugs. |
| Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities. |
| Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal. |
| Teach pharmacy students serving as interns in preparation for their graduation or licensure. |
| Advise customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment, or healthcare supplies. |
| Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure. |
| Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics. |
| Top Skills used in this Job |
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| Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
| Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
| Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
| Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Instructing - Teaching others how to do something. |
| Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Science - Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. |
| Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people. |
| Top Abilities (Attributes of the person that influence performance in this job.) |
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| Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
| Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
| Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
| Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
