pharmacist

Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)

• Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities

Work Setting

• Community or retail pharmacy

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Attention to detail

Personal Suitability

• Initiative
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Accurate
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Client focus
• Dependability
• Judgement
• Reliability
• Organized

Community Pharmacist and Hospital Pharmacist Specific Skills

• Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
• Check prescriptions for proper dosage
• Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the quantities of drugs and other ingredients required and filling appropriate containers with correct quantity
• Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
• Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
• Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals