What Does a Pharmacy Technican Do?

When you are prescribed a medication at the doctor's office, he either fills it for you, or calls it into a pharmacy of your choice. Where does it go from there? Your pharmacy is enabled by qualified pharmacy technicians who do more than just hand you your prescription at pickup.

Take Prescription Orders

• When the pharmacy technician receives the order from a doctor's office or hospital, her job is fill the order. She usually finds the drug name in the computer system and matches it with the patient's name. This also depends on the pharmacy's policies.

Take Inventories

• A typical pharmacy has thousands of medications to stock and shelf every day. This is also part of the technician's job. Most pharmacies have computerized inventories of all their medication that must be maintained and tracked. This may also include counting the pills in the bottles.

Job Locations

• The job of a pharmacy technician is not limited to just local pharmacies. Most hospitals have pharmacies located on their campus (especially bigger cities). Doctors' offices may even have small pharmacies on-site as well. Certain health and wellness stores also employ pharmacy technicians.