Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician

Location: Nashville, TN/On-Site

Duration: 7 Years

Hours Per day: 7.5

Shift: 7am to 4pm

Job Responsibilities

• Dispensing Medication

Dispenses medication under the supervision of a pharmacist.

Action Steps:

• Investigate 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
• Investigate and compile 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

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

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