JOB DESCRIPTION: A pharmacy technician performs any combination of the following nonjudgmental duties to assist a pharmacist in a hospital or retail establishment: (1) fill bottles with prescribed tablets and capsules, and type labels for bottles, (2) assists the pharmacist to dispense medication, (3) receives and stores incoming supplies, (4) counts stock and enters data in the computer to maintain inventory records, (5) process records of medication and equipment dispensed to hospital patients, computes charges, and enters data in computer, (6) prepackages (e.g. unit doses) and properly labels medication, (7) reconstitutes medication (e.g. liquid antibiotics), (8) limited bulk compounding, and (9) limited functions in preparation of parental products while using sterile technique.
