Pharmacists

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Contact insurance companies to resolve billing issues.
2. 02Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
3. 03Work in hospitals or clinics or for Health Management Organizations (HMOs), dispensing prescriptions, serving as a medical team consultant, or specializing in specific drug therapy areas, such as oncology or nuclear pharmacotherapy.
4. 04Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.
5. 05Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
6. 06Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
7. 07Offer health promotion or prevention activities, such as training people to use blood pressure devices or diabetes monitors.
8. 08Update or troubleshoot pharmacy information databases.
9. 09Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.
10. 10Prepare sterile solutions or infusions for use in surgical procedures, emergency rooms, or patients' homes.
11. 11Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
12. 12Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications.

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