Pharmacists
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NOC 2021: 31120/ NOC 2016: 3131
Job Description
Community and hospital pharmacists compound and dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals and provide consultative services to clients and health care providers.
As a Pharmacist you perform some or all of the following duties:
- 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
As an Industrial Pharmacist you perform some or all of the following duties:
- Participate in research for the development of new drugs
- Coordinate different types of clinical and non-clinical tests during the development of new drugs
- Provide quality control services during the manufacturing of drug products, ensuring that they meet potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety standards
- Promote pharmaceutical products and the development of informational materials for other health care professionals, other pharmacists and the general public
- Participate in research for the development of new drugs
- Coordinate different types of clinical and non-clinical tests during the development of new drugs
- Provide quality control services during the manufacturing of drug products, ensuring that they meet potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety standards
- Promote pharmaceutical products and the development of informational materials for other health care professionals, other pharmacists and the general public