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Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.

Currently Employed: 723

Yearly Projected Openings: 30

Typical Hourly Wage: $13.65 - $21.63

Typical Annual Salary: $28,400 - $45,000

• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.
• Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.

• Filling or sealing auger dose machines
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Laboratory mills
• Sterile or aseptic processing or filling machines

• Accounting software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Inventory management software
• Label making software
• Medical software