Job Description:
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Pharmacists dispense medications to patients in accordance with doctor's orders and consult patients on medication usage and contraindications. Pharmacists communicate directly with physicians in order to correctly deliver medications.
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Pharmacists work in a community setting, such as a retail drugstore, or in a healthcare facility, such as a hospital. Pharmacists in community pharmacies dispense medications, counsel patients on the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications, and advise physicians about medication therapy.
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Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities. Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labelling pharmaceuticals. Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
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Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counselling patients on drug therapies.
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Develops hospital staff's pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
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Complies with Government’s drug laws, the drug enforcement administration, maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervising the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions.
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Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
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Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
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Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
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Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Other tasks:
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Ordering drugs from the drugstores.
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Checking the invoices with the cashier.
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Checking the invoices with the Head Nurse.
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Preparing the approvals.
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Ordering drugs from the pharmacies when they are not available in the drugstores and the patient needs the urgently.
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Checking for expired and near expired drugs.
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Entering the new drugs to the system.
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Arranging the shelves.
Pharmacist Skills and Qualifications:
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Analyzing Information, Administering Medication, Judgment, Verbal Communication, Ministry of Health Regulations, and Pharmacology, Managing Processes, Legal Compliance, Productivity, Quality Focus, and Attention to Details.
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Excellent English & Kurdish (written, spoken and read) Arabic is also require
