Hospital Pharmacists

Hospital Pharmacists prepare and dispense pharmaceuticals, drugs and medicines in a hospital pharmacy.

What the job involves

• Receives prescriptions, checks patients' medicine histories, and ensures optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing

• Prepares or supervises the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions

• Advises patients on drug incompatibility and contra-indications

• Maintains prescription files and records issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs

• Stores and preserves vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration

• Supervises and co-ordinates the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns and pharmacy sales assistants