Job Description:
Dispensing medical prescriptions, Bashas’ pharmacists are highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals who help ensure optimal health outcomes for our pharmacy customers.
Some Job Responsibilities include:
- Managing pharmacy operations, hiring and supervising staff, performing administrative duties, and buying and selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise.
- Assuring customer satisfaction by providing a helpful, professional and courteous attitude at the pharmacy window and on the phone.
- Complying with all applicable federal and state laws and the rules and regulations of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.
- Providing accurate and efficient prescription service, reviewing prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients and to evaluate their suitability.
- Providing information and advice regarding drug interactions, side-effects, dosage and proper medication.
- Providing information and advice concerning the use and purchase of over-counter medications and healthy food products.
- Ringing sales on the register and complete sales transactions of cash, credit or debit.
- Monitoring patient compliance to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
- Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies and drugs and storing it properly.
- Maintaining records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for and registries for poisons, narcotics and controlled drugs.
- Providing specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation or high blood pressure.
- Collaborating with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics.
- Compounding and dispensing medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
- Offering health promotion and prevention activities, for example, explaining nutritional benefits of various food items and training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors.
- Refer patients to other health professionals when appropriate.
- Plan, implement, and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.