Inpatient Pharmacy Tech

Job Title

Inpatient-Pharmacy Technician

Job Overview

AIMS is seeking skilled Inpatient-Pharmacy Technicians to join our team and provide high-quality pharmacy services at Brooke Army Medical Center - BAMC. The successful candidates will be responsible for performing a variety of tasks in inpatient, outpatient, and oncology pharmacy settings, ensuring adherence to The Joint Commission (TJC) standards.

Responsibilities

General Duties:

• Assess patient responses to drug therapy and plan drug therapy based on physician-established diagnoses.
• Receive and review prescriptions, including controlled drugs, on the pharmacy formulary.
• Assess patient responses to prescription or non-prescription drugs according to established agreements and protocols.
• Coordinate with prescribers to clarify issues with dosing, interactions, or instructions as needed.
• Prepare replenishment orders, receive incoming stock, check for discrepancies, and rotate medication stock and supplies.
• Enter medication orders into an electronic healthcare system and review for allergies, interactions, and duplicate orders.
• Perform standard assays on finished products, verify ingredients, labeling, and ensure a pharmaceutically elegant product is dispensed.
• Operate, maintain, and assist with pharmacy equipment, including PYXIS machines and point-of-use medication cabinets.

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Duties:

• Prepare sterile products and perform pharmaceutical calculations for various preparations.
• Adhere strictly to sterile procedures and maintain equipment.
• Prepare and fill physician orders for IV solutions, parenteral, and inpatient unit dose orders.
• Perform maintenance on equipment to ensure sterility of IV products.
• Participate in quality assurance data collection and review.

Qualifications

• Minimum one (1) year of experience within the last five (3) years as an inpatient, outpatient, or oncology pharmacy technician.
• Graduate from a formal pharmacy technician program accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) or a similar program, including military training programs.
• Certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB), Exam for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT), or CHPhT.
• Current active certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross only.

Compensation: $20.00 - $22.00 per hour

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Us

AIMS Locum Tenens, LLC, d/b/a AIMS Force is a WOSB certified healthcare management company based in Northern Virginia and Washington DC area focus on healthcare management in both public and private sectors. AIMS Locum Tenens is one of the fastest growing healthcare management solution specialized in management of highly skilled healthcare professionals in both commercial and government healthcare facilities all over the country. We have the experience, resources, and scale required to help physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to take advantage of both short and long term staffing opportunities in a wide variety of practice specialties. We do staff healthcare providers for both short and long-term assignments to local, state and federal government healthcare facilities. AIMS realizes the key to quality is attention to details. AIMS is the one stop shop for various healthcare facilities and handles every steps to get best candidate from sourcing, recruitment, candidate screening, credentialing, final placement and retention of highly qualified healthcare provider. As one of the nation's fastest growing healthcare management companies, AIMS Locum Tenens manages highly qualified physicians and nurses during staffing crisis at community hospitals, clinics and Army based MTFs (Military Treatment Facilities). Hospital systems, MTFs, nursing homes and out patient clinics benefit from our comprehensive, cost-effective supplemental medical staffing services. Our No. 1 priority is to provide the best service to our healthcare professionals and our hospital and MTFs clients. We welcome feedback and suggestions so we can continually improve our service. At AIMS Locum Tenens, our core pillarsdedication, commitment, trustworthiness, and superior servicedrive every aspect of our business.