Pharmacy Support Staff Flashcards
Refers to staff within the pharmacy team that work under the supervision of a pharmacy professional to carry out tasks related to dispensing and supply of medicines, provide information or deliver pharmacy services.
Pharmacy support staff
very minimal degree of independence or decision making and without direct interaction with patients
Pharmacy Aide
Roles of Pharmacy Aide
- Cleaning of work areas
- Assisting on placing prices on product
- Filing of documents, deliveries, sales and orders
- Answering calls then forwarding calls or messages to pharmacist
- Assisting in the stocking of products in the shelves and warehouse
- Other tasks may be assigned by the pharmacist
minimum degree of independence or decision making and may have supervised interaction with patients.
Pharmacy Assistant
Roles of Pharmacy Assistant
- Performing in general housekeeping
- Arrangement of display of pharmaceutical products
- Counting of OTC tablets and capsule, reconstitution of powders for suspensions
- Conduct od health promotion education
- Monitoring of supply/inventory of pharmaceutical products
- Observance of Good Laboratory Practices
- Dispensing of OTC pharmaceutical products
- Vigilance, adherence, and observance of Good Manufacturing Practices
- Handling and control of pharmaceutical products
- Assisting in the preparation of the product label
- Demonstration of product knowledge on medicines
Refer to persons who assist in compounding and dispensing of medicines in community, hospital, institutional and industrial settings or engaged in other activities under the supervision of the pharmacist
Pharmacy Technician
Roles of Pharmacy Technician
- Monitoring of the stock/inventory of pharmaceutical products
- Observance of Good Laboratory Practices
- Demonstration of product knowledge on medicines
- Handling and control of pharmaceutical products
- Preparation of product label
- Conduct of health promotion education
- Exercise of supervision over pharmacy aide and pharmacy assistant
- Arrangements of the display of pharmaceutical products
- Compounding of formulations and dispensing of both OTC medicines and prescription pharmaceutical products
- Vigilance, adherence, and observance of Good Manufacturing Practices
known as an act regulating and modernising the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines
The Philippine Pharmacy Act (Republic Act of 10918)
(Pharmacy Law)
Republic Act of 5921
PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD OF PHARMACY
Resolution No. 52, Series of 2017