Pharmacy Tech Certified

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Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

zabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork.

Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

We invest in you personally and professionally.

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules.
• Retirement savings with employer match.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs.
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility.

The Pharmacy Technician, under the direct supervision of a licensed Pharmacist and in accordance with all State and Federal laws, assists with the selection, procurement, storage, preparation, distribution, record keeping, and financial reconciliation of all medications dispensed to patients of St. Elizabeth Healthcare. While adhering to the ICARE principles and exhibiting the AIDET principles demonstrates respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

• Provide excellent customer service through interactions with doctors, nurses and patients who contact the pharmacy.
• Answers queries or directs the call to the appropriate person for resolution.
• Processes Epic messages in a timely and accurate manner.
• Consistently adheres to and exhibits ICARE and AIDET principles.
• Assists the pharmacist in the dispensing of medications in a timely and accurate manner filling medication bins, filling labels, restocking Pyxis med stations and ancillary departments.
• Certify for delivery medication refilled by another technician.
• Performs all aspects of sterile compounding of medications for direct infusion into patients, including that of chemotherapy and total parental nutrition, through use of aseptic technique and compliance with USP 797 and 800 regulations and requirements.
• Utilize metric system calculations to calculate appropriate doses required for sterile compounding.
• Assists the pharmacist in labeling, storing and processing IVs and managing and minimizing waste in the IV room.
• Maintain sterility and maintenance of IV room equipment through routine cleaning and decontamination procedures.
• Ensures timely receipt and delivery of all patient medication related information and products by making designated rounds.
• Properly distributes medications, including controlled substances, time sensitive and life‑saving medications and processes ADT (Admissions, Discharges and Transfers) per procedure.
• Assists in assuring medications on nursing unit and all medication storage outside of pharmacy and offsite units are compliant with regulatory guidelines.
• Participate in the Process Improvement Program and comply with all policies and procedures related to Infection Control and Safety to improve the quality of patient care and outcomes.
• Perform patient medication histories which will include, but is not limited to, documenting the patients prior to admission medications accurately and completely.
• Document resolution of discrepancies in the medical record so attending physician can review and reconcile.
• Organize and deliver medications to patients if needed.
• Certifies that all expiration dates for medications refilled/loaded in Pyxis med stations have been checked and stock has been rotated to ensure shortest date is used first.
• Processes returns correctly while checking expiration dates before returning items to stock.
• Enhances career development through attendance and participation in departmental meetings and educational in‑services and communication tools.
• Performs other duties as assigned.