Pharmacist

Job description:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• To ensure medicines are issued to all floors in the scheduled time.
• To issue indents from the wards and arrange for delivery of medicines to the respective wards as when required.
• To perform the billing prior the handing over of the medicines to the wards/patients ensuring the correct quantity, batch number, expiry date and MRP i.e selling price.
• To furnish information about available medicines to the doctors, nurses as and when required.
• Daily updation of narcotic registers & stock maintenance.
• To maintain records of all purchases, receipts and issue of drugs.
• To index and store medicines for easy retrieval of medicines.
• Responsible for stocks of narcotic drugs & their availability in time.
• To follow the FEFO policy in issue of medicines.
• To solve queries, if any, of the patients with the help of the manager Pharmacy.
• Physical stock verification, as required.
• To ensure issue of narcotics and dangerous drugs after proper authorization of indents or against proper prescription and making a note about the issue date on the prescription at the time of issue.
• To keep the manager pharmacy informed on the new medicine requirement as per prescriptions received on the retail counter/IP pharmacy.
• To ensure the narcotics in the Pharmacy store are kept in double locked at all times and one key is available with two pharmacists.
• To ensure that life saving drugs are stored at optimum levels to take care of emergencies.
• To ensure that drugs are not stored beyond the expiry date and arranging for disposal of the expired medicines.
• To ensure that the medicines returned, if any, are in a intact pack and have not been opened or used partially prior to their return
• To ensure cleanliness of the Pharmacy department.
• To be part of the Quality Improvement Initiative and protocols of the organization.