Different Types of Pharmacist Jobs

In the field of health sector, we call pharmacists as chemists, or druggists who are healthcare professionals, and they perform in the field by giving attention on the safe use of medicine, and make people aware about the effect or side effect of the medicine.

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Various Types of Pharmacists

In the field of medical healthcare sector we see different types of pharmacists. Those are called academic pharmacist, ambulatory pharmacist, community or retail pharmacist, clinical pharmacist, home care pharmacist, government-pharmacist, hospital pharmacist, industrial pharmacist, independent pharmacist, managed care pharmacist, nuclear pharmacist, pharmaceutical industry pharmacists, research pharmacist.

Academic Pharmacist- These types of pharmacists serve in colleges or in schools of pharmacy by teaching the students.

Ambulatory pharmacist- They work on the patients who go through the risks due to having drug related problem, likely the adverse effect of medicine or on the patients who have some diseases which cannot be controlled fully like hypertension, diabetes, asthma, they also function as the healthcare service providers in village area, in their duty they keep in touch extensively with the elderly people who have been suffering from diseases mainly mental disorder. They work directly or through some healthcare organizations.

Community/ Retail Pharmacist- They provide the customers valuable information, about the intake process of physician prescribed medicines, at the same time they inform the customers the effect and side effect of the drugs.

Clinical Pharmacist- These types of pharmacists work in the medical fields by providing their service directly to the patients’ care and treatment, they work in hospitals, nursing home or home health settings up, they give attention and stress the medication of the patients properly.

Government Pharmacist

This professionals work for the department of US public health service, for the veteran’s administration, the food and drug administration, and for the armed forces of US, in the process of recruitment, they are employed by the regulatory health and social service agencies.

Home Care Pharmacist

They are commonly known as home infusion pharmacy, in the service, they make mainly injectable materials and supply them to the treating patients, but never they dispense oral or external use of medicine, they work as per instruction of the doctors. If required they should contact with patients and nursing staff for administrating the medicine. The pharmacists serve in the healthcare sector; they monitor the drug therapy, and make injections, solutions, which they inject into the bodies of the patients. Among them, some do specialization in some fields, like intravenous nutrition support, oncology (cancer),  nuclear pharmacy that is used for chemotherapy, and pharmacotherapy which is the branch of treatment with the patients of mental disorder with drugs, these types of pharmacist perform diligently with various ways some time as professional, or managerial or as an administrative authority. They are entitled to hire employee, they can keep business records too.

Hospital Pharmacist

These types of pharmacists work in hospitals, nursing homes or clinics, they play important part as supervisory or administrative authority, this time they can advise the medical staff of the clinics. They become an important part of the hospital team management, they dispense medicines, instruct the staffs, the pharmacists turn specialized with their studies. In these working field two types of staffs of pharmacists one is in patients’ pharmacist and the other is out patient pharmacist. The first one gives the service to the patients by injections suffering from disease and treated in hospitals, in this system patients cannot bring the prescription to the pharmacist physically. The second one works like retail pharmacists, they provide service to the patients who can bring their prescriptions to them physically.

Independent Pharmacist- They remain associated with the medication, administration of drugs to the patients, dispense the medicine, as per prescription, they also supply information about the medicines its use and over use, side effects.

Industrial Pharmacist- They are directly related with the business, they do marketing, sales, research, quality control, and evaluation of production of a company.

Managed Care pharmacist- They serve in the field as Health Maintenance Organization(HMOS) by which they help to draw plan and can manage prescription medicine use, they work in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities, they make sterilized solution, and buy medical supplies, they are able to make plan about the medical drug administration.   

Nuclear Pharmacist- In this field the pharmacist use the medication therapy with such radio active elements, in early of 1970, in the USA it was recognized by American Medical Association, there need to be highly skilled and specialized pharmacists for this field, but certifications are available for the practitioner in the market.

Research Pharmacist- They are working in the field of advancing and research of the drugs, its use and effect, they work in hospitals and in universities.

Job Outlook

As per the BLS report, in the USA the job of pharmacist will grow up by 32% between the periods of 2010 to 2020. Here is a pharmacy resume.