Description
210278 A - Certified Pharmacy Technician - Brooklyn Heights, OH - 13 Weeks Contract Sigma Healthcare Staffing is currently looking for an experienced Certified Pharmacy Technician to work onsite for our contracted facility.
Shift: Rotating Shifts
Summary: - A hospital pharmacy technician helps hospital staff pharmacists in preparing and dispensing medications to patients undergoing treatments in the hospital.
Responsibilities: - Supply medicines to patients, over the counter or on prescription
- Assemble medicines for prescriptions
- Manage areas of medicines supply like the dispensaries
- Supervise other pharmacy staff when necessary
- Produce medicines in the pharmaceutical industry and in hospitals
- File Prescriptions
- Mix chemotherapy, fluids and feeding solutions for intravenous use under the direct supervision of a pharmacist
- Deliver medications to the nursing units in the hospital premises
- Responsible for inventory control in the hospital pharmacy
- Rotate stock, remove expired medications and perform other inventory control duties
- May be assigned to work in a particular nursing unit
- Involved in labeling and assembling dispensed items
- Check expiry dates of drugs, advise nurses on the correct mode of medicine storage and discuss the needs of the wards with the staffs and nurses
- Purchase medicines from wholesalers and pharmaceutical companies
- Ensure supplies are delivered accordingly
- Help patients in understanding how to use their medicines safely when they return home and in the wards.
Required certifications/licensure: - High School diploma or GED required
- Current P.T.C.B. Certification required
- Current/Valid State license
- Typing skills required
