Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Prescription Review & Dispensing:

Review and verify physician orders for accuracy, dosage, and potential drug interactions or allergies. Monitor patient drug charts and manage complex treatment regimens. Perform

Medication Reconciliation

by reviewing a patient's full medication history to ensure safety during transitions of care.

Patient Counseling:

Educate patients on correct medication usage, possible side effects, and storage requirements.

Medicine Management:

Recommend optimal administration routes (e.g., tablets vs. injections) and assist in clinical decision-making with doctors and nurses.

Inventory & Store Management:

Manage the procurement and storage of pharmaceutical supplies, ensuring compliance with

Schedule-P

of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules (1945) and maintaining "FEFO" (First Expiry, First Out) systems.

Narcotics & Controlled Substances:

Maintain strict records and secure custody (lock and key) for Schedule X drugs and poisons.

Clinical Duties:

Participate in ward rounds with doctors to recommend optimal administration routes and cost-effective alternatives.

o Monitor drug efficacy and report

Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)

.

o Provide specialized support in intensive care (ICU), oncology, and emergency units.

Quality Assurance:

Ensure the identity, strength, and purity of medications through rigorous quality control procedures.

Serves patients by preparing medications, giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.

Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.

Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.

Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.

Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' workflow, verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.

Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.

Develops hospital staff's pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.

Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspection.

Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.

Supervises the work results of support personnel.

Maintains current registration, studies existing and new legislation, anticipates legislation, and advises management on needed actions.

Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.

Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Pharmacist Qualifications / Skills:

Skills Required:

Educational & Legal Requirements

Qualification:

Minimum of a

Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm)

or

Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm)

from a PCI-recognized institution.

Licensure:

Mandatory registration with the

Karnataka

State Pharmacy Council

to legally practice in Karnataka.

Skill Set:

Proficiency in pharmaceutical software, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills in both English and local languages.

Analyzing information

Administering medication

Judgment

Verbal communication

FDA health regulations

Pharmacology

Managing processes

Legal compliance

Productivity

Quality focus

Attention to detail

Job Types: Full-time, Fresher

Pay: ?16,000.00 - ?22,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person