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Pharmacy Technician Does What?

Pharmacy Technician Does What
What does a pharmacy technician do? One of the primary responsibilities of a pharmacy technician is to work closely with a pharmacist to guarantee the health and safety of the patients who visit the pharmacy. They identify, distribute, pack, and label a patient’s prescription medication, which is subsequently verified by a pharmacist for correctness before being administered to the patient.

What are the duties of a pharmacist in a pharmacy?

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PHARMACY TECHNICIAN 💊

In A Hospital: – Working in a hospital includes working at the hospital pharmacy, dispensing medications to either outpatients or patients admitted into the hospital. Hospitals in the United States comprise the second largest employer of pharmacy technicians. Apart from the regular duties, a pharmacy technician’s duties in a hospital setting will include: • Process prescriptions and dispense medications. • Educate patient on the instructions, dosage and possible side effects of the medication. • Require to settle the bill before the patient leaves. • Inventory management and clerical duties like entering patient data, answering calls and accounting will also form part of your duties in such a setting. • Since the pharmacy provides medication to all patients admitted in the hospital, including the emergency ward and operating room, as a pharmacy tech, in spite of hardly having any direct contact with the patients, you are required to prepare prescriptions by communicating with the nurses or physicians, either over the telephone or more recently, electronically. • Deliver medications to whichever floor requires any stock of a particular drug in the hospital. • Inpatient settings also require you to make IVs, which require special training in aseptic technique (to minimize the risk of infection) and clean room procedures.
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