Pharmacy Tech Job Duties

As the day to day duties of a pharmacy technician differ in work place location, these are some of the more commonly required duties that a pharmacy tech is expected to do.

• Preparing prescribed and labeled medical prescriptions
• Entering prescription requests into a computer network
• Assistance in patient drop off or pick up of prescriptions
• Help answer questions regard the prescriptions
• Help determine what over the counter drugs can best suite a need
• Help with over the phone questions and prescriptions
• Ordering of medications and maintaining the inventory
• Help in working with insurance companies obtain payments and refilling authority

As these are important to hospital, clinic patients it also helpful to those that visit a pharmacy.

These duties are helpful to the licensed pharmacy that is on staff as sometimes the pharmacists cannot see to each patient or pharmacy customer needs.