Community Mental Health PharmacyCommunity Mental Health Pharmacy is one more practice setting that pharmacy technicians work in. Most community mental health pharmacies are closed-door pharmacies, similar to long-term care pharmacies. But in this case, pharmacies in community mental health are open to the patients receiving medical care and social services help in these centers. The customers at these pharmacies are both patients, and the people who are caregivers for the patients. These pharmacies also put up medications for patients in inpatient settings, such as state-run psychiatric facilities. The medications prepared for those facilities are put up in “bingo” cards, which are cards. Each day, the medication in the bingo cards can be dispensed by a registered nurse. The cards have a 30 day supply of medication and tablets, capsules, and caplets can all be packaged this way. Most community mental health pharmacies are on a much smaller scale than community retail pharmacy settings, with a focus on psychotropic/psychiatric medications. These pharmacies also carry other common medications, but don’t have the volume or the inventory of these other medications that a community retail setting could have.
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