Job Description
Job responsibilities
- Review medication orders for appropriateness, process drug orders, dispense medications to patients and supply drug stocks to nursing units.
- Counsel patients on their medications.
- Provide drug information to doctors, nurses and patients
- Assist in the training and supervision of pharmacy assistants.
- Perform quality assurance procedures such as ward inspections and expiry date checks, as assigned.
- Perform other medication-therapy related duties, such as supply and distribution of controlled drugs, adverse drug reactions reporting, drug usage monitoring.
- Participate in medication reconciliation rounds and specialised counseling such as warfarin counseling and inhalation techniques counseling.
- Participate in specialised care units such ICU, Transplant Unit, pain management, DM counselling. (if assigned / applicable)
- Other duties / projects as and when assigned