Pharmacy Technician

Job Title:
Pharmacy Technician

Location:
Nashville, TN/On-Site

Duration: 7 Years

Hours Per day: 7.5

Shift: 7am to 4pm

• Job Responsibility:
  Dispensing Medication
  • Dispenses medication under the supervision of a pharmacist.
  • Action Steps: Investigates medication related issues or missing doses as needed
  • Accurately calculates doses to ensure an adequate supply in automated dispensing cabinet (ADC)
  • Loads ADC in a timely and accurate manner according to max/min levels, adjusting for holidays and weekends
  • Delivers medications to patient units in a timely manner to ensure precise administration times
  • Replenishes unit floor stock medications
  • Prepares discharge medications for patients by counting, labeling, and packaging the medication
  • Conducts medication room inspections on a monthly basis and maintains up to date inspection logs
  • Investigates and compiles information for Pyxis override reports
  • Completes these tasks on a daily basis with an accuracy rate above 90%
  • Completes tasks accurately and efficiently based on observation by the pharmacy director

• Job Responsibility:
  Maintains Pharmacy Inventory and Supplies
  • Assists pharmacist with inventory of medications, supplies, and helps stock medications according to pharmaceutical protocols and procedures.
  • Behavioral Action Steps:
  • Receives and stores incoming medications and supplies in correct locations
  • Rotates stock regularly, keeping notes of when medications and supplies expire
  • Monitors and replenishes stock in ADCs
  • Credits and returned items are processed within 72 hours
  • Accurately places returned medicines back in their appropriate locations
  • Checks for expired or short dated medications in ADCs and in med rooms
  • Appropriately labels bulk medication and supplies
  • Maintains a compliance rate of 90% based on weekly reviews of remaining credits and supplies that are not inventoried
  • Completes tasks on a daily basis

• Job Responsibility:
  Provides Information and Responds To Requests
  • Provides routine information accurately and responds to requests responsibly.
  • Behavioral Action Steps:
  • Provides professional, efficient, and courteous service to other healthcare providers as observed by pharmacy director
  • Answers phone calls in the pharmacy in a timely manner
  • Able to correctly direct calls to the appropriate personnel
  • Receives and conveys information requests between pharmacy and other healthcare providers
  • Researches and provides information, locates items, refers to inquiries under pharmacist supervision
  • Assists hospital staff, patients, and other visitors at the pharmacy walk-up door
  • Completes entries in the pharmacy intervention log when appropriate
  • Maintains a compliance rate of 100% based on review of any verbal or written disciplinary actions due to professionalism related issues, as well as observation by the pharmacy director.
  • Completes tasks on a daily basis