Inpatient Pharmacy Technician I - 30 hours per week - Inpatient Pharmacy

Responsibilities

• Ensuring Crash Carts are adequately supplied with the required items.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to directions.
• Fill order.
• Manage/Process inventory in the dispensing cabinets (Omnicell), including but not limited to stocking, checking for outdates and rotation of items. - Replenish emergency kits and carts.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Making trays and kits (CPR, transport, etc) refilling anesthesia carts.
• Delivering medications to the nursing units, to the operating rooms and the emergency departments. This includes STAT medications and exchanging daily medication carts.
• Stock supplies, rotate stock, remove expired medications and perform other inventory duties.
• Implements United States (USP) Standards, such as 795(nonsterile), 797 (sterile compounding), and 800 (handling of hazardous medication). Maintaining regulatory compliance for USP797, Board of Pharmacy, DEA and others.
• Conduct and successfully pass annual and biannual media fill compounding assessment for all pharmacy employees. - Assist with remediation and/or retraining as needed.
• Prepares IV additive medications using sterile technique as directed by the pharmacist and according to the policies and procedures set by the pharmacy.- Responsible for the proper disposal of all materials used in the preparation of hazardous medications and IV additive medications.
• Demonstrating proficiency with dispensing equipment and software. - Documentation of IV admixtures.- Exhibit problem solving skills, leadership characteristics, and effective ownership of additional activities or duties.
• Clean, and help maintain, equipment and work areas, and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.- Maintains clean and sterile environment within the intravenous admixture area, including clean room. Routinely washes with appropriate germicidal solutions all hoods, counters, carts, and all other equipment that will be used within the work area.
• Ability to work with cleaning agents for the sterile compounding areas.
• Practices universal precautions and disposes of hazardous wastes per established guidelines.

Requirements

• H.S. Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) High school graduate Required
• Pharmacy experience Preferred
• Computer experience Preferred
• Sterile Compounding Preferred
• Customer and Personal Service
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Knowledge of electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Knowledge of the information needed to treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Teaching others how to do something.
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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Additional Information

Minimum Hiring Wage: From $20.78 per hour Job Details: Scheduled Hours: 3pm-11pm / 4pm-12am Every other weekend: 11am-7pm / 3pm-11pm Rotating Holidays Job Description: A Brief Overview Works under direct supervision of hospital pharmacists performing clerical tasks, drug distribution activities, computerized order entry, and other medication management duties as authorized by the Iowa Board of Pharmacy Examiner's laws, rules and regulations. Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, and count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications. May review and document patient's arrival medication assuring appropriate dose, route, frequency and duration of therapy.

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