What is a Pharmacy Technician? What are their typical tasks and responsibilities? Here are answers along with more information including how to become a Certified Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Tech salary, Pharmacy Tech practice exam and more.
A Pharmacy Technician assists the Pharamacist in a hospital, franchise pharmacy (CVS, Walgreens, Osco etc) or other medical setting. Daily duties focus around assisting Pharmacists with their tasks. This involves handling prescription requests and verifying that the information is complete and accurate. They also retrieve the medication and count or weigh it. Putting the prescription in bottles and affixing proper labeling are the final steps prior to review by a Pharmacist. Depending upon the setting, there may be additional administrative type tasks such as stocking shelves and helping with phone calls.
The demand for Pharmacy Techs has grown over the past few years and is predicted to grow further as baby boomers reach an age at which they most likely will use medication and prescriptions and pharmaceutical companies continue to develop more drugs.
Pharmacy Tech salary and income has increased along with the growth in demand for Technicians.
Some of the skills required for this occupation include: attention to detail, accuracy, great people skills, math and chemistry knowledge, and some software/computer/internet skills.
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