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Types of Pharmacist Jobs

By Adrianna Noton

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Published: 20Feb2012
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When you make a trip to the drug store to fill a prescription, it can be easy to think that the pharmacist who explains your medication to you is the only type of pharmacist there is. This is not the case though, as pharmacist jobs exist in a variety of different platforms, with different skill sets and responsibilities. Pharmacy jobs of all types require knowledge and skill and dedication to ensure patients receive the care they need, when they need it. Pharmacist jobs in a retail drug store are vitally important to the health of the patients who are prescribed medications by their physician, but they certainly aren't the only ones.

An academic pharmacist is one type of pharmacist job that most people have likely never heard of before. Academic pharmacists teach and research the field of pharmacology in universities, colleges and schools of pharmacy. A clinical pharmacist helps to provide information about different drugs and monitors drug therapy treatments and drug interactions. These pharmacy jobs usually take place in a hospital or nursing home or home health care environment. Clinical pharmacists work directly with patients to ensure the medication is taken correctly.

Ambulatory pharmacists work in many rural areas with patients who may be at risk for experiencing drug-related problems or have uncontrolled conditions like asthma, high blood pressure or diabetes. Ambulatory pharmacists work in conjunction with insurance companies and health care organizations to reduce hospital visits and inpatient days. Homecare pharmacists don't really have pharmacy jobs, as they don't spend much of their time in an actual pharmacy. A homecare pharmacist usually works with critically ill patients, mostly preparing and delivering medications that are injected.

Homecare pharmacists don't typically distribute oral medications, and a nurse is present to actually administer the injectable medications they do deliver. A hospital pharmacist is another type of pharmacist job where the pharmacist works inside the hospital, clinic or nursing home. Hospital pharmacists typically advise the medical staff, which drugs to select and on the effects of the various drugs that are regularly used. Hospital pharmacist jobs may also require some administrative work and time spent in the patient care areas of the hospital.

Some other types of pharmacist jobs include industrial pharmacists, managed care pharmacists, radiopharmacists and nuclear pharmacists. Each one of these pharmacy jobs requires specialized knowledge and skills, especially in the case of a nuclear or radiopharmacist, who each routinely deal with radioactive materials. The drug companies themselves create a lot of pharmacist jobs in the research, development and marketing fields. It's imperative for a drug company to have experts on staff when doing research into new drugs, and the research goes on indefinitely as drug companies looks for new ways to treat every condition and disease that people suffer from. Before a drug can be made available to the public, it must be tested rigorously and every side effect documented meticulously, which is one of the reasons why research pharmacists are so valuable.

With pharmacy jobs all across America, find a geat job in this exciting industry.

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