Overview
Retail Pharmacists dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to the public, educate customers on health promotion, disease prevention and the proper use of medicines, and sell non-prescription medicines and related goods in a community pharmacy.
Day-to-day
- 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
- supplies non-prescription medicines, and diagnostic and therapeutic aids
- supervises and co-ordinates the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy interns and pharmacy sales assistants.
Considerations
- Stressful
To become a Retail Pharmacist
You need a bachelor degree in pharmacy to work as a Retail Pharmacist.
Registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia is required.
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