Description
Description Summary: All pharmacy technicians work under the direction of Clinical Pharmacists to provide pharmacy services with compassion, excellence and efficiency.
- Assist Pharmacists with Medication Histories.
- Train Tech I associates.
- Prepares drug orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures and protocols.
- Verifies computerized patient medication records accurately. Maintains, accurate, complete patient drug record.
- Compounds pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products accurately.
- Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law and institutional policies.
- Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.
- Verifies the daily activities of the department are complete and recorded.
- Maintains competency required for current job title/position
- Maintains current technician license. Ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files. Attends staff meetings.
- Completes all competency/skills assessment requirements
- Retail
- Performs outpatient distributive functions related to entering prescriptions orders, selecting the correct medications for new and refilled prescription orders, and coordinates delivery of medications for patient pick-up or delivery.
Clinical Duties and Responsibilities- Ensures safe, appropriate, cost effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Reads, extracts and interprets information in patient medical records accurately.
- Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner.
- Sustains the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols and promoting rational drug therapy selection.
- Provides accurate, adequate and timely drug information to the hospital's pharmacy associates.
- Coordinates pharmacist drug education to patients and their families per institutional protocol.
- Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department. Collects data, conducts monitors and inspections and maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned.
- Conducts designated interventions as defined in department Clinical Intervention activities (IV to PO, Renal Dosing, Pharmacokinetic dosing support, Anticoagulation)
- Baseline departmental standards for reporting interventions for clinical productivity as defined by departmental goals.
- Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion
Requirements:- Required: High School Diploma or equivalent
- Certified Pharmacy Technician
- 3-5 years hospital experience
- Pharmacy registration in the State of practice.
Work Type: Full Time
