Pharmacy assistants perform general duties, such as stock management, serving at the cash desk, or performing administrative duties. They deal with the inventory within the pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional;
(b) Dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors, veterinarians or other health professionals;
(c) Receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical record-keeping standards;
(d) Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs;
(e) Filling and labelling containers with prescribed medications;
(f) Assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a pharmacist for medication information;
(g) Pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establish and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients;
(h) Ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals and supplies, and entering inventory data into records-keeping systems;
(i) Cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds.