Pharmacy Tech, UofL Hospital, Specialty Pharmacy

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Posted Todayjob requisition :
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** Primary

Location:

** Ambulatory Care Building - UMC#
** Address:
** 550 South Jackson St.Louisville, KY 40202#
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** Job Description

Summary:

** Expanding into Specialty Pharmacy at UofL Hospital.
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.  With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.#

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* Job Description:

** The Inpatient Certified Pharmacy Technician provides daily supportive services for the Department of Pharmacy according to hospital policies and procedures and in compliance with Kentucky pharmacy laws and other regulatory agencies. The technician actively supports and participates in the department’s continuous quality improvement initiatives and competency assessments and demonstrates a commitment to customer service and patient safety. The technician responds to requests in a prompt and efficient manner.

Major job responsibilities include: distributes medications, including controlled substances, to a secure place for storage or administration, restocks automated dispensing cabinets (ADC), compounds sterile and non-sterile products, communicates with hospital staff, completes inspections, and reports unsafe practices to leadership.
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* Essential Functions:

**** Provides supportive services to the inpatient pharmacy
*** Assists with filling, processing, and dispensing of medications by labeling medication, including bulk supplies, with proper ancillary labeling and bagging procedures, with final check performed by a pharmacist
* Answers phones according to established phone etiquette and triages calls to the proper personnel
* Charges and/or credits patients for medications used via the computer system
* Accurately and efficiently unit doses medications, including cleaning the compounding area, restocking and replacing supplies, documenting in the compounding record, and ensuring doses are correctly labeled and prepared for pharmacist verification
* Prepares medications for loading into the ADC and unloads medications from the ADC utilizing bar code scanning
* Fills inventory requests for nursing unit’s ADCs, floor stock, and fills patient specific drawers by placing the proper bins according to census profile
* Supports the drug inventory process including ordering, rotation, and restocking of drug dispensing areas with drugs and supplies needed to process patient medications orders
* Ensures the maintenance of a clean and orderly work area, including a sterile environment
* Completes nursing unit and inventory inspections, as assigned; restocks kits and crash cart trays, as required
* Fills controlled substance orders, reconciles all discrepancies and closes all loops on a daily basis
* Monitors medication activity for potential drug diversion and reports any discrepancies to the pharmacist or pharmacy leadership
* Delivers medications, including controlled substances, to nursing units’ ADC as scheduled and for emergent deliveries as necessary
* Assists with ensuring medications are delivered efficiently and accurately to patient care unit areas. Includes checking the tube system with each delivery, retrieving and transporting medications to the appropriate location
* Prepares and packages hazardous medications and adheres to all safety measures for handling hazardous medications described in USP 795/797/800
* Utilizes aseptic technique following department policies and procedures when compounding sterile products
** Serves as a mentor to new pharmacy technicians, pharmacy technician students, and pharmacy students
*** Provides guidance to certified pharmacy technicians and IPPE pharmacy student…