• Coordinates the overall pharmaceutical needs of the patient care areas with the dispensing area.
• Responsible and accountable in managing the medication therapy of patients.
• Provides medication therapy evaluations and recommendations to patients and health care professionals
• Provides patient education and medication counselling.
• Counsels patients on medications to be self-administered in the hospital and discharge medications
• Reviews the home medicines of discharged patients.
• Provides drug information to physicians, nurses, and other health-care personnel.
• Attends to adverse drug reaction experience (ADE) in the hospital.
• Compounds parenteral, oral, and topical preparations (IV admixtures and Total Parenteral Nutrition for inpatients).
• Reviews and interprets each unit dose and IV admixture medication order to ensure that it is entered accurately into the unit-dose or IV admixture system
• Insures that good manufacturing techniques are used in compounding intravenous admixtures and extemporaneous preparations.
• Provides for proper drug control:

a. Insures that drugs are stored and dispensed properly.

b. Insures that all national laws and DDB regulations are followed.

• Dispenses drugs and medicine, and other pharmaceutical preparations
• Daily inventory of drugs and medical devices.
• Monitors drugs at critical level in assigned shelves.
• Checks incoming drugs, medicine, chemicals for quality, qualifying in conformity with requested item.
• Records inpatients issues of wards covered by unit dosing in individual patient’s profile.
• Monitors correct quantity, expiry date, and proper storage of emergency drugs in the wards and clinics.
• Monitors maintenance/use of all equipment, electronic devices, accountable, and official forms.
• Participates in the regular meetings of the Therapeutics Committee and other hospital committees involving the Pharmacy.
• Communicates with all Pharmacy staff regarding new developments in the area.
• Maintains professional competence, particularly in knowledge of drug stability and incompatibilities.
• Attend meetings/seminar-workshops/consultative meetings related to clinical and hospital pharmacy practice.
• Supervises clerks, Pharmacy Technicians, and pharmacy interns.
• Compliance to IMS (Integrated Management System) Standards and Policies.