Professional functions of Pharmacy Technician

- Receive written prescription
or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
- Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
- Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
- Fill bottles with prescribed medications and type and affix labels.
- Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
- Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
- Clean, and help maintain, equipment and work areas, and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.
- Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
- Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enter inventory data into computer.
- Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
- Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
- Add measured drugs or nutrients to intravenous solutions under sterile conditions to prepare intravenous (IV) packs under pharmacist supervision.
- Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers, and label the containers.
- Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.
- Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
- Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.
- Compute charges for medication and equipment dispensed to hospital patients, and enter data in computer.
- Deliver medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations or surgery.
- Price stock and mark items for sale.Maintain and merchandise home health-care products and services