Pharmacy Aides

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Accept prescriptions for filling, gathering and processing necessary information.
• Answer telephone inquiries, referring callers to pharmacist when necessary.
• Greet customers and help them locate merchandise.
• Unpack, sort, count, and label incoming merchandise, including items requiring special handling or refrigeration.
• Operate cash register to process cash or credit sales.
• Restock storage areas, replenishing items on shelves.
• Maintain and clean equipment, work areas, or shelves.
• Receive, store, and inventory pharmaceutical supplies or medications, check for out-of-date medications, and notify pharmacist when inventory levels are low.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Prepare prescription labels by typing or operating a computer and printer.
• Perform clerical tasks, such as filing, compiling and maintaining prescription records, or composing letters.
• Prepare, maintain, and record records of inventories, receipts, purchases, or deliveries, using a variety of computer screen formats.
• Process medical insurance claims, posting bill amounts and calculating copayments.
• Compound, package, and label pharmaceutical products, under direction of pharmacist.
• Operate capsule or tablet counting machine that automatically distributes a certain number of capsules or tablets into smaller containers.
• Calculate anticipated drug usage for a prescribed period.
• Deliver medication to treatment areas, living units, residences, or clinics, using various means of transportation.
• Provide customers with information about the uses, effects, or interactions of drugs.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)