What is the responsibility of a pharmacist?

The responsibility of a pharmacist primarily includes filling prescriptions and preparing labels. This ensures that medications are accurately dispensed according to the prescriptions provided by healthcare providers. Pharmacists play a crucial role in verifying that the correct medication, dosage, and instructions are provided to the patient. This process includes checking for potential drug interactions, allergies, and providing proper labeling that contains essential information about the medication, such as administration routes and warnings.

While pharmacists do engage in some aspects of direct patient care, particularly in educational and consultative contexts, their core responsibility revolves around the medication safety and accuracy of dispensing pharmaceuticals. The other options, such as conducting health assessments and prescribing medications, typically fall outside the pharmacist's primary scope of practice and are often reserved for other healthcare providers, like physicians or nurse practitioners.