stevey - my take on this question is a bit broader. Unless you're in the business, you really don't know what your goals are specifically.
However, you can speculate in the larger sense, which I think is what they're looking for (just from being on my end, occasionally, looking at applications).
Rather than look at tasks - becoming a retail pharmacist, or a hospital pharmacist or opening up your own compounding pharmacy - none of which you know you want to do at this point.....focus on what your place is in this huge complex we have called healthcare in the US.
Pharmacists are many things - we're often the first ones people come to for ailments, worries & concerns. That means - helping folks find the most effective, least expensive & least cumbersome way of getting their aliment treated. An example is a new parent, whose child is teething & fussy. Now - we could advise that parent to go back to their pediatrician (or god-forbid if they don't have a pediatrician - to an ER)...or we could reassure the parent this is a normal process & advise an otc product with parameters on when to call a physician.
Take the other extreme - an adult who has just played on his work softball team earlier in the day. He's hot, is drinking gatorade, but thinks he's thrown his arm out because he's got an ache down his arm & a bit behind his scapula & wants the best "rub" for muscle pain. On further questioning....he does take some medication for hbp, doesn't recall anything which might have caused him to specifically get his arm to hurt. While he's talking to you...he's perspiring. You ask him to take his bp in the store on the machine & its 195/91. You ask him to rest a bit & retake it - again its high. Now - the likelihood that it is just a muscle pull is possible, but its also very possible he's having an MI right before your eyes. I'd send him right to the nearest ER.
Both of these circumstances have occurred to me. In my hospital job, I work with the P&T committee to help decided on which medications to stock to get the job done at the best possible contract prices available. Sometimes its not the ones the physicians want, but other times it is. Its my job to help them see the medical as well as the business side of controlling costs.
So - what do I try to do professionally - I try to be accessible to the public & prescribers so healthcare is accessible & affordable. I try to translate confusing, difficult to understand & skewed information the public sees in print, tv & radio ads & try to put it into perspectives they'll understand. I try to help prescribers accomplish their medical goals within the parameters of what that patient can afford financially as well as knowing how compliant the patient will be. I try to simplify the understanding of this whole confusing world of our part of healthcare.
I hope this helps get you pointed in a direction which will help you. If not, pm me & perhaps I can help you further.
Good luck!
