Pharmacy Technician

Assists the pharmacist in the practice of pharmacy, performing various duties such as filling new medication orders, preparing medications for review, and maintaining adequate stock levels.

Requirements

• Fill new medication orders and cassettes and prepare for Pharmacist's review.
• Assist in reconciliation of missing orders and doses and complete required documentation.
• Deliver stock medications and place in appropriate storage location.
• Complete all assigned charging and crediting functions, including from miscellaneous sources.
• Prepackage medications, such as oral liquids, simple batch compounding, and starter doses for review.
• Stock medications to their appropriate locations, rotate stock as necessary and check outdates, and assist in maintaining adequate stock levels.
• Maintain assigned inspection section and check outdates monthly.
• Fill emergency trays, anesthesia trays, ancillary dept. stock requests, and various medication boxes.
• Enter appropriate information-such as NDC, manufacturer, bar-code, lot #, expiration date-for each medication being packaged.
• Reports, immediately, prescription errors to pharmacist on duty and adheres to Company policies and procedures in relation to pharmacy errors and the Quality Improvement Program.
• Prepare IV medications and parenteral nutrition (TPN) utilizing USP 797 and 800 guidelines for review.
• Label pre-mixed IV meds and batch prep mini bag plus IV meds for pharmacist's review.
• Performs other position related duties as assigned.