PHARMACY TECH

Location/Department:  Hospital - Pharmacy

PRN - hours will vary as needed

Job Summary:

Assists pharmacists in medication distribution & charging.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates awareness of patient rights.
• Uses respect & dignity when dealing with death and dying.
• Retrieving orders to be filled.
• Entering the refill info via computer, printing & checking resulting label.
• Delivering filled orders, inputting orders & charges.
• Filling cassettes accurately over 95%.
• Filling departmental orders.
• Resolving missing doses with investigation.
• Printing new label, obtaining R.Ph. approval & delivering final product.
• Refilling for R. Ph. check the anesthesia & narcotic boxes.
• Delivering filled orders of all types to the correct location.
• Answering phone correctly as pharmacy tech as required by the State of Indiana.
• Taking complete messages including phone numbers & name of caller.
• Teaching, communicating with, supervising the volunteers.
• Resolving nurse-pharmacy departmental issues with Rx Tech scope.
• Answering questions within Tech scope & knowing when to refer on to R. Ph.
• Communicating ideas or ways of improving safety, accuracy, efficiency.
• Transmitting orders to wholesaler or companies
• Checking items received, applying price stickers, checking off item on invoice.
• Resolving backorder issues with wholesalers.
• Preparing the drug invoices for payment & assigning account numbers.
• Filing the invoices by month, date, day accurately
• Sorting & preparing for return outdated drugs.
• Preparing for, taking, & entering the annual inventory.
• Restocking the shelves & drawers.
• Stocking Omnicell.
• Compounding & other duties as assigned.
• Replacing stock items used by units.
• Checking & resupplying the stock located in the medication dispensing unit daily.
• Reviewing narcotic stock, calculating amount needed to replenish, record on perpetual inventory sheet in pharmacy, deliver to nursing unit, sign in on their sheet, & cosign with receiving nurse confirming the narcotic delivery.
• Checking narcotic proof of use for accuracy, cosigned wastage & co-signatures if required.
• Returning incorrect sheets for correction & confirming their return to pharmacy.
• Entering corrections, recharges & credits when needed.
• Filing accurate, correctly completed narcotic sheets.
• Checking anesthesia use for accuracy & the required co-signatures for wastage.
• Completing the State required mandatory monthly inspections of all drug storage areas.
• Reviewing, correcting & filing of the daily drug disposition logs & cart fill documents.
• Recording the used items onto pharmacy’s perpetual inventory sheets, making a new sheet for anesthesia use, recording the items taken from pharmacy’s narc vault, placing a new padlock on refilled box & giving entire unit to the pharmacist for approval.
• Using 797 USP required compounding techniques when mandated.
• Helping to maintain the high level of departmental dispensing accuracy by checking the Pharmacist’s final product.
• Renewing the Pharmacy Tech License before the previous one has expired.

Required Skills/Abilities:

 Strong customer service skills & team player.

• Effectively communicates both verbal & written.
• Able to multi-task & prioritize.

• Able to operate basic office equipment & hospital applications.
• Able to operate Laminar flow hood or newer models, Omnicell or Documed device, other new equipment as purchased.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• No work experience required.
• Must have or complete course for Pharmacy Technician licensure through the state of Indiana within 6 months.
• Must acquire basic knowledge of drugs, dosages, usage, reference sources & other pertinent pharmaceutical information.
• Must possess strong math skills.

Physical Requirements:

• Constant walking, standing, use of hands & manual dexterity; frequent stooping & reaching; occasional sitting, pushing, pulling, climbing, kneeling, & talking.
• May need to lift up to 25 lbs; occasionally up to 50 lbs