Omani Pharmacist

Dispensing prescription medicines and over the counter to the public in strict adherence to the guidelines laid
down by the Ministry of Health.
 Advising patients of any side effects of medicines or potential interactions with other medicines /treatments.
 Check patients’ prescription legality for accuracy, safety (eg. ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one
another, reviewing labels, doses) and insurance related issues.
 Follow up for insurance approval as appropriate and feedback to the patient.
 Put a Tick mark ( ) on the prescription for those supplied. Validate the prescription/bill by sign, stamp after
dispensing (as per norms). Counseling and advising the patients/public about the medications prescribed/billed.
 Liaising with doctors about prescriptions in case of any discrepancy in the prescription.
 Pricing of loose strips and safe handling of cash in appropriate manner.
 Ensuring that narcotics and other controlled drugs are kept under strict supervision, with controlled access.
Managing stock and dispensing controlled drugs in strict compliance with MOH policy.
 Raising indent/requisition/LPO, handling receipts of new consignment, GRN entry, maintaining stock and
inventory of medicines/pharmaceutical care items. Stock arranging on shelves, refilling, checking of expiry dates
and updating the list for necessary follow up action.
 Ensure compliance with billing system as well as auditing/tracking system as per organization’s protocol, stock
availability and tally as per the records.
 Issuance of Indents to patients care units and corporate requisitions in appropriate way.
 Compliance with shift duty as per the contract.
 Report ADR and/or quality problem in liaison with HOD-Pharmacy.
 Ensure proper storage of medications and other pharmaceutical care items, maintaining temperature record chart
for pharmacy as well as refrigerator.
 Monitoring of Expiry dates (ensure FEFO), and sort out slow moving /Non-moving / short expiry inventories for
necessary action to avoid wastage of resources.
 Ensuring proper storage of medications and other pharmaceutical care items, maintaining temperature record chart
for pharmacy as well as refrigerator.
 Initiatives for ensuring availability of vital as well as essential medicines and other pharmaceutical care items in
view of the patients/clinical needs.
 Periodical check of CPR Trolleys as per the checklist approved by the HOD.
 Preparing statistics/reports and business quotations as assigned by the HOD.
 Ensure clear communication among the team regarding work related issues in appropriate manner, preferably on
record.