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Pharmacist (To become a pharmacist you are required to have a Doctor of…

- - - - When you go to apply for a job, you could look at any of your local pharmacies and drug stores, as well as any hospitals near where you live.
        
        If you land a job, you are looking to make around $87,420 during your beginning years with the company.
        
        Once you have landed a job, your everyday work life will consist of dispensing prescription medications to patients and offering your expertise in the safe use of prescriptions.
        
        As a pharmacist your responsibilities are:
        
        Filling prescriptions, verifying instructions from physicians on the proper amounts of medication to give to patients
        
        Checking whether prescriptions will interact negatively with other drugs that a patient is taking or any medical conditions the patient has
        
        Instructing patients on how and when to take a prescribed medicine and informing them about potential side effects from taking the medicine
        
        Giving flu shots and, in most states, other vaccinations
        
        Advising patients about general health topics, such as diet, exercise, and managing stress, and on other issues, such as what equipment or supplies would be best to treat a health problem
        
        Completing insurance forms and working with insurance companies to ensure that patients get the medicines they need
        
        Overseeing the work of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists in training (interns)
        
        Keeping records and doing other administrative tasks
        
        Teaching other healthcare practitioners about proper medication therapies for patients
        
        After 10 or so years of working at your job, your salary will increase to about $124,170 per year.
        
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        Along with dispensing medications, some pharmacist take part in wellness screenings, providing immunizations, overseeing the medications given to patients, and providing advice on a healthy lifestyle.