Tasks include but are not limited to: designing, recommending, verifying, monitoring, evaluating and documenting patient and age-specific pharmacotherapy; preparing and dispensing medications; providing concise, applicable, and timely responses to requests for drug information to ensure optimal drug use and medication-use education; managing medication safety issues; monitoring medical and nursing compliance; overseeing use and storage of patient's own medication; participating in rapid responses and codes; and ensuring adherence to the hospital's medication use policies, procedures and relevant regulatory agencies. They must possess skills to cover all aspects of pharmacy operations, ability to supervise and direct technician staff during check times, make sound clinical and operational decisions and work independently when necessary.