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Work Setting
- Community or retail pharmacy
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
Personal Suitability
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Accurate
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Reliability
- 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