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| Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests. |
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| Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information. |
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| Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods. |
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| Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer. |
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| Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery. |
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| Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients. |
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| Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services. |
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| Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs. |
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| Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions. |
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| Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers. |
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| Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer. |
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| Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels. |
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| Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records. |
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| Price and file prescriptions that have been filled. |
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| Price stock and mark items for sale. |
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| Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages. |
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| Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate. |
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| Restock intravenous (IV) supplies and add measured drugs or nutrients to IV solutions under sterile conditions to prepare IV packs for various uses, such as chemotherapy medication. |
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| Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers. |
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| Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques. |