Job purpose
Duties and responsibilities involve compounding and dispensing medicine in a safe and professional way and working closely with the medical and nursing staff to ensure patients get the optimum care.
Duties and responsibilities
- Retrieving prescription orders
- Medicine compounding
- Being aware of the latest medicines and their availability
- Receive prescriptions from doctors.
- Prepare prescriptions for patients.
- Verify insurance and prescription information.
- Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
- Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Organizes medications to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
- Maintains records by recording and filing physicians' orders and prescriptions.
- Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
- Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information.
- Reporting adverse drug reactions and poor quality drugs to the pharmacy and poisons board
Minimum Qualifications & Requirements
- Holder of diploma in pharmacy from Kenya Medical Training College/any recognized medical institution
- Duly registered by pharmacy and poisons board
- Current practice License
- 3 years working experience in a busy dispensing unit
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