Job Order Detail

Description

- Pharmacy Examining Boards of Canada Certification
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
- Certification for drug administration by injection and intranasal route
Work Setting
- Community or retail pharmacy
Work Location Information
- Relocation costs covered by employer
Personal Suitability
- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
Community Pharmacist and Hospital Pharmacist Specific Skills
- Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
- Check prescriptions for proper dosage
- Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the quantities of drugs and other ingredients required and filling appropriate containers with correct quantity
- Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
- Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
- Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals