Pharmacists

Key Tasks

• •Receiving prescriptions, checking patients' medicine histories, and ensuring optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing
• •Preparing or supervising the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions
• •Advising prescribers on drug incompatibility and contra-indications
• •Reviewing and monitoring the medicine therapy of individual patients, and assessing the effectiveness of the total medicine therapy
• •Maintaining prescription files and recording issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs
• •Storing and preserving vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration
• •Supplying non-prescription medicines, and diagnostic and therapeutic aids
• •Supervising and coordinating the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns and pharmacy sales assistants
• •Conducting research to develop and improve pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and related chemical products
• •Conferring with chemists, engineering professionals and other professionals about manufacturing techniques and ingredients
• •Testing and analysing drugs to determine their identity, purity and strength in relation to specified standards
• •Developing standards for drugs used in pharmaceuticals

Employment Projections to 2035