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- Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants

Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants perform a variety of tasks associated with dispensing medicinal products under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional.
(e)   Tasks include -
preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional;
dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors, veterinarians or other health porfessionals;
receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical records keeping standards;
(c) maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs;
filling and labelling containers with prescribed medications;
assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a pharmacist for medication information;
pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establish and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients;
ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and entering inventory data into records-keeping systems;
cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds.

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