I am doing a report for school and I am trying to find out the role of pharmacy technicians in a Home Health Care setting . I unterstand that they help the pharmicist but I would like to know exactly where they would work and what there jobs would be. How they work behind the scenes.

I am doing a report for school and I am trying to find out tje role of pharmacy technicians in a Home Health Care setting . I unterstand that they help the pharmicist but I would like to know exactly where they would work and what there jobs would be. How they work behind the scenes.


Do you mean in a residential home such as a nursing home OR someone who fills prescriptions intended for someone who is at home and getting home health care?

At any rate - they do more than "help the Pharmacist out." Techs in my area (my late husband was a Pharmacist) take the prescription, prepare the label, label the empty container, pull the large "supply" bottle (medication is delivered in large quantities), place the "supply" bottle on the work counter with the individual labeled bottle in front of it. The Pharmacist checks the label on the bottle against the written prescription and against the "supply" bottle and counts the correct quantity (interestingly, by fives). He then places the correct quantity in the labeled bottle. The Pharm Tech then puts the supply bottle back, recounts the quantity, closes the bottle and places it for customer pick up.

Depending on the State a Pharmacist can supervise a number of "Techs" - I've sen the number as high as five.

I would not frequent a Pharmacy which did not hire only certified Pharm Techs. Don't want someone in high school or who wandered off the street counting my medication.