Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Evening Shift

Description:

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician – Full Time Evenings

Samaritan Hospital

Samaritan Hospital is seeking a Full-Time Pharmacy Technician for the inpatient pharmacy. If you are looking to join the Samaritan Pharmacy team, this could be your opportunity.

Position Highlights:

• Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge
• Advancement:  Strong orientation program, generous tuition allowance and career development
• Work/Life:  Positions and shifts to accommodate all schedules

Responsibilities:

Medication Distribution -

Inpatient Pharmacy

• Understands process and timetable for processing first doses and manual picks through Robot.

• Understands process for filling cart fill patient drawers through Robot.

• Accurately sends Pharmacy items to appropriate nursing units utilizing Pneumatic Tube system.
• Accurately picks meds and restocks Pyxis MedStations using both manual system and PARx automated system.
• Accurately picks narcotics and utilizes C-II Safe appropriately.
• Delivers patient medication cassettes/ Chemotherapy/Parenteral Nutrition solutions to patient care areas
• Scans shelves in area on monthly basis to check for expired drugs.
• Understands process and timetable for separating and prioritizing small volume parenteral label run
• Appropriately handles incoming phone calls

MEDICATION PREPARATION

Inpatient Pharmacy 

• Cart Filling and baggie filling is accurate-selects proper medication, strength, dosage form, and quantity.

• Selects proper medication, strength, dosage form, and quantity for batching or packaging & labeling.

• Premixed IV large and small volume parenterals are correctly labeled.
• Uses proper hand washing technique, follows aseptic technique guidelines while in hood.
• Utilizes syringe and needles, etc. in proper manner to assure sterility
• Cleans hoods and resets special set-ups after each use.
• Changes KCl, Automix compounder, Pharm-Assist, Wed Cadet tubing, at the correct times
• Compounded IV large and small volume admixtures are accurately labeled.
• Mixes chemotherapy.
• Accurately follows written Special Procedures to prepare compounded IV and non-IV products.
• Accurately packages, into unit of use packaging, and labels medications.
• Accurately repackages medications for Robot, able to prioritize medications.
• Prepares the various types of emergency kits.

Inventory –

Inpatient Pharmacy

• Maintain adequate levels of drugs and supplies for assigned area.
• Checks in and puts away drug/IV order.  Informs pharmacist/inventory technician of shortages, zeros and discrepancies.
• Returns to stock, discontinued medications, IVS and minibags and medications, IVS and minibags from discharged patients by end of shift.
• Leaves work area adequately supplied for next shift.
• Utilizes Lawson software successfully to requisition meds and supplies.
• Maintains Robot inventory, performs restocking and crediting accurately.

• Maintains inventory levels for the narcotic vault.
• Maintains an inventory of prescription blanks for use by hospital patient care areas and community sites.
• Maintains an adequate level of emergency drug boxes.
• Maintains an adequate supply of paper items for the department.

Order, Reporting Processing and Record Keeping

Inpatient Pharmacy

• Performs technical functions in Pharmacy IS accurately utilizing established procedures.
• Records and labels related to batching and packaging/labeling are neat, accurate and complete according to procedure.
• Processes daily reports accurately and in a timely manner.
• Completes correct controlled substance paperwork , so as to maintain correct controlled substance inventory

• Prepares controlled substance orders for dispensing to Pyxis MedStations and returns controlled substances as needed.

• Inputs charges into pharmacy computer to assure timely posting of charges.
• Performs required Quality Assurance. (Sterility testing, cleaning lists, Robot QA, expiration checking)

What you will need:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• National certification by PTCB or NHA required
• Valid New York State Pharmacy Technician Registration required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to perform arithmetic calculations including fractions, decimals, multiplica