Average hourly wage

$61.00

Job description

These individuals evaluate drug therapy and ensure the appropriate use of medications in order to detect and prevent medication-related problems. They prepare, store, and dispense medication to maintain health, restore health, or provide appropriate symptom relief. They are self-employed or self-employed in:

• Retail and hospital pharmacies
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Government agencies and services
• Government business
• Regulatory matters

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Investigative

People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.

Enterprising

People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.

Social

People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.

Main tasks

Community and Institutional Pharmacists

• Fill prescriptions and ensure that drug therapy meets the health needs of patients.
• Extend or adjust doctor’s prescriptions.
• Analyze patient records to ensure that the medications chosen are suitable and adequate for their condition (right dose, right product, drug interactions, etc.).
• Educating patients and other health care professionals about dosage, contraindications, adverse reactions, etc.
• Provide a pharmaceutical opinion.
• Ensure the packaging, distribution, and storage of drugs and pharmaceutical products.
• Initiate, monitor, and adjust patients’ drug therapy.
• Counsel patients on the use of non-prescription drugs and prescribe them when clinically or otherwise appropriate.
• Monitor and coordinate the activities of other pharmacists and staff.
• Administer a medication by different routes of administration to demonstrate appropriate use for vaccination or in an emergency.
• Prescribe medications for certain health conditions:
  • Minor health conditions (allergic conjunctivitis, eczema, allergic rhinitis, etc.)
  • Preventive treatments (smoking cessation, emergency oral contraception, antibiotic prevention in people exposed to a tick bite [Lyme disease], etc.)
  • Treatment of influenza or shingles.

Industrial Pharmacists

• Participate in research for the development of new drugs.
• Formulate, test, and verify the stability, absorption, and elimination of new drugs.
• Coordinate clinical investigations of new drugs.
• Control the quality of drugs during production to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Develop informative material concerning the uses, therapeutic effects, and risks of certain drugs.
• Evaluate drug labelling, packaging, and advertising.
• Promote pharmaceuticals to health professionals.
• Participate in pharmacovigilance functions (document and evaluate adverse reaction cases, assess product risks, etc.).

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

University

Targeted regions

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