251513 RETAIL PHARMACIST
Alternative Title: Community Pharmacist
Dispenses prescribed pharmaceuticals to the public, educates customers on health promotion, disease prevention and the proper use of medicines, and sells non-prescription medicines and related goods in a community pharmacy. Registration or licensing is required.
Skill Level: 1
Indicative Skill Level:
In Australia and New Zealand:
Occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification and a one year traineeship (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).
Registration or licensing is required.
Tasks Include:
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Receiving prescriptions, checking patients’ medicine histories, and ensuring optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing
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Preparing or supervising the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions
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Advising prescribers on drug incompatibility and contra-indications
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Reviewing and monitoring the medicine therapy of individual patients, and assessing the effectiveness of the total medicine therapy
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Maintaining prescription files and recording issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs
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Storing and preserving vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration
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Supplying non-prescription medicines, and diagnostic and therapeutic aids
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Supervising and coordinating the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns and pharmacy sales assistants
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Conducting research to develop and improve pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and related chemical products
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Conferring with chemists, engineering professionals and other professionals about manufacturing techniques and ingredients
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Testing and analysing drugs to determine their identity, purity and strength in relation to specified standards
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Developing standards for drugs used in pharmaceuticals