More than Your Typical Pharmacy

• Community Pharmacy – is the most common area where pharmacists practice their discipline. It generally has a retail storefront and a dispensary where medicine and medical supplies are stored and dispensed. The storage conditions, equipment type, compulsory labels, etc. are all requirements in maintaining the dispensary as specified in the pharmacy legislation. A number of community pharmacists have shifted to grocery-type wherein other non-pharmaceuticals products are also being offered.

• Hospital Pharmacy – these are simply pharmacies situated in hospitals. Many pharmacists assigned in hospitals have earned more education and special trainings after school through a pharmacy residency practice. Also, they normally specialize in different pharmacy disciplines such as anticoagulation clinics, critical care, herbal medicine, toxicology, infectious disease, etc. Hospital pharmacies usually have more intricate medication processes and management over community pharmacies.

• Clinical Pharmacy – originally located in hospitals, clinical pharmacists give direct care services to patients in all health care settings. They presently serve as an integral component of the interdisciplinary approach to patient care services.

• Compounding Pharmacy – compounding pharmacists take the extra challenge of developing drugs in new forms. So if you are one of those people who have a hard time taking tablets, you might be glad to know that the drug is already available in lollipop forms. This is the main function of compounding pharmacy though some also distribute the equal non-compounded drugs that patients can get in community pharmacies.

• Consultant Pharmacy – concentrates on medication treatment review. Most consultant pharmacists work in nursing homes however some slowly branching to other organizations and non-institutional locations. In the United States, there is a trend of consultant pharmacists directly dealing with patients. These cases are prevalent for in cases where elderly citizens opt for continuous medications even outside nursing institutions.

• Internet Pharmacy – with the advent of the Internet, access to medications become more and more accessible especially they are deliver right in front of your door with a few clicks of the mouse. The medicines are requested, paid, and processed through online systems. Canada has dozens of licensed Internet pharmacies that sell heaper medications to US consumers. If you are the geeky type pharmacists who enjoy technologies then this could be your calling…

• Veterinary Pharmacy – also called veterinary pharmacies, it obviously caters to the pharmaceutical needs of animals. It also may be categorized under hospital, retail, or mail-order pharmacy. Veterinary pharmacy is frequently separated from typical pharmacies since the needs and rules on veterinary medicine for animals are much different from people. Animal lovers usually fall in love with this field.
  

• Nuclear Pharmacy – those who undergo special training to deal with radioactive materials are called nuclear pharmacists. They usually prepare such delicate substances for analytical experiment and treatment of some diseases. Unlike other pharmacists, nuclear pharmacists do not have direct contact with patients in general.