Education: Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Tasks:
- Order and maintain stock of pharmaceutical supplies
- 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
- Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals
- Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
- Co-ordinate clinical investigations of new drugs
- Control the quality of drug products during production to ensure that they meet standards of potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety
- Develop information materials concerning the uses, properties and risks of particular drugs
- Promote pharmaceutical products to health professionals
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses: Pharmacy Examining Boards of Canada Certification
Work conditions and physical capabilities: Standing for extended periods, Attention to detail
Financial benefits: Bonus
Work Term: Permanent
Work Language: English
Hours: 40 hours per week