License: Pharmacy Support Person

Iowa Board of Pharmacy
400 S.W. 8th Street, Suite E
Des Moines, IA 50309-4688
(515) 242-3272

A pharmacy support person is an individual who works in a pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist and assists with nontechnical duties such as sales clerk, delivering prescriptions, submitting orders to drug wholesalers and checking in shipments of prescription drugs from drug wholesalers, filing, receiving prescription refill requests from patients, checking pharmacy stock for outdated drugs and assisting with inventory counts, and performing routine clerical functions.
More information about this license

  • Stand-alone license
  • Third-party exam required
  • No education required
  • Continuing education required
  • No experience required
  • No criminal record requirements
License information updated 10/12/2020