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What Does a Pharmacy Technician Do?
Responsibilities
- Collect information needed to fill prescription requests from customers or health professionals
- Measure medication
- Understand the names, uses and doses of medications
- Organize inventory and alert pharmacists to any shortages
- Accept payment for prescriptions and process insurance claims
- Enter patient information into a computer system
- Answer phone calls
- Maintain safety by adhering to infection-control procedures and regulations
Becoming a Pharmacy Tech: FAQs
The bottom line:
This is a career that offers entry to the healthcare profession without a bachelor’s degree. If you like working with people and are organized, this job could be a good fit. Plus, it’s a career with plenty of opportunity to keep learning. Interested? Check out SkillPointe’s training portal, which connects you to programs near you.
What is it like to be a pharmacy tech?
Chris Hicks is the pharmacy director at the nonprofit Charlottesville Free Clinic in Virginia.
He's been a pharmacy tech for 16 years — long enough to see that no matter the type of clinic they work in, pharmacy techs can make a difference.
"You get to play a small part in healing and treating patients," he says.
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