Duties of a licensed pharmacist

The duties of a licensed pharmacist have been clearly defined in the provisional regulations on the qualifications of licensed pharmacists:

(1) A licensed pharmacist must abide by professional ethics, be loyal to his or her duties, and take responsibility for the quality of medicines, and ensure that people's use of medicines is safe and effective as a basic guideline.

(2) A licensed pharmacist must strictly implement the Drug Administration Law and all national regulations and policies on drug research, production, operation and use. The practicing pharmacist is responsible for advising, stopping, refusing to implement, and reporting to his or her superiors any behavior or decision that violates the Drug Administration Law and related regulations.

(3) The licensed pharmacist is responsible for the supervision and management of the quality of medicines within the scope of practice, and participates in the formulation and implementation of the total quality management of medicines, and handles the violation of the regulations in the unit.

(4) The licensed pharmacist is responsible for reviewing and supervising the dispensing of prescriptions, providing medication counseling and information, guiding the rational use of medication, and carrying out clinical pharmacy work such as monitoring of therapeutic medications and evaluation of drug efficacy.

Summary: From the above provisions, we can see that the licensed pharmacist has the right to audit and supervise the dispensing of prescriptions! Please pay attention to all practicing pharmacists!

Employment scope of licensed pharmacists

Current employment status and development:

General choice: pharmacy work!

Job responsibilities:

(1) The licensed pharmacist must review the physician's prescription, and then correctly dispense signatures and sales; the pharmacist can not arbitrarily change the prescription or give substitute drugs. If there is a contraindication to dispensing or excessive dosage in the prescription, the pharmacist should refuse to dispense and sell, or contact the physician, or ask the purchaser to ask the physician to modify the prescription before dispensing and selling.

(2) Licensed pharmacists should provide medication guidance to patients, especially to consumers who use over-the-counter medications for self-medication. In order to ensure the safety of consumers' medication, licensed pharmacists should keep complete records of customers' medication use, check for possible adverse drug reactions at any time, and explain in detail to consumers the knowledge and precautions of medication use.

(3) In addition, the licensed pharmacist certificate is required by drug manufacturing, distribution and sales units. So after taking the licensed pharmacist certificate, you can choose to engage in related work in pharmaceutical factories, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies.