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Pharmacist Job Duties and Responsibilities

A pharmacist prepares and dispenses medications, provides drug information to healthcare professionals, monitors patient drug therapies, and ensures compliance with pharmaceutical laws and regulations. They compound medications, package and label drugs, advise on interventions, train staff, and maintain pharmacological knowledge through continuing education. The pharmacy and therapeutics committee is a hospital body that recommends drug therapy policies, and has roles in advising, educating, and monitoring drug safety and adverse reactions.

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Pharmacist Job Duties and Responsibilities

A pharmacist prepares and dispenses medications, provides drug information to healthcare professionals, monitors patient drug therapies, and ensures compliance with pharmaceutical laws and regulations. They compound medications, package and label drugs, advise on interventions, train staff, and maintain pharmacological knowledge through continuing education. The pharmacy and therapeutics committee is a hospital body that recommends drug therapy policies, and has roles in advising, educating, and monitoring drug safety and adverse reactions.

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  • Pharmacist Job Responsibilities
  • Pharmacy and Therapeutics Functions

Pharmacist Job Responsibilities:

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.

PTC ---- THE PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTICS COMMITTEE IS A POLICY FAMING AND
RECOMMENDING BODY TO THE MEDICAL STAFF AND THE ADMINSTRATION OF HOSPITAL ON
MATTERS RELATED TO THERAPEUTIC USE OF DRUGS.
Composition of pharmacy and therapeutics committee (PTC) might vary from hospital to
hospital. The following scheme is suggested for general adoption: The PTC may be composed of:
At least three physicians from the medical staff A pharmacist A representative of the
nursing staff An hospital administrator with his/her designated an exofficio member of the
committee one of the physicians may be appointed as the chairman of PTC.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS: The pharmacy and therapeutics have three major roles to play. These
are: ADVISORY , EDUCATIONAL, DRUG SAFETY AND ADVERSE DRUG MONITIORING.

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