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What They Do |
Community pharmacists and hospital pharmacists perform some or all of the following duties: Industrial pharmacists perform some or all of the following duties:
 | Participate in basic research for the development of new drugs |
| Formulate new drug products developed by medical researchers |
| Test new drug products for stability and to determine their absorption and elimination patterns |
| Co-ordinate clinical investigations of new drugs |
| Control the quality of drug products during production to ensure that they meet standards of potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety |
| Develop information materials concerning the uses, properties and risks of particular drugs |
| Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products |
| Promote pharmaceutical products to health professionals. |
| Check prescriptions for proper dosage |
| Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the quantities of drugs and other ingredients required and filling appropriate containers with correct quantity |
| Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage |
| Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs |
| Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals |
| Order and maintain stock of pharmaceutical supplies |
| Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication |
| May supervise and co-ordinate the activities of other pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and other staff. |
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Where They Find Work — Top Occupational Areas |
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| Health care and social assistance |
18.0% |
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| Pharmacists work in community and hospital pharmacies, pharmaceutical firms, government departments and agencies, and pharmacies and other retail organizations. |
| The unionization rate (26%) is close to the average (32%) for all occupations. |
| The highest concentrations (per 10,000 people) of Pharmacists, Dietetitians and Nutritionists are found in Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland while the lowest concentrations are in Prince Edward Island and British Columbia . |
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