Pharmacy Technician - Inpatient

Inpatient Pharmacy Technician

The Inpatient Pharmacy Technician will perform inventory inspection, restocking, and ordering functions as well as providing necessary drug supplies to operating rooms, emergency department and ward drug stock areas. Major duties include but are not limited to the following:

1. Pharmacy technicians will have access to patient profile, to assure missing dose requests appropriately.
2. Pharmacy technicians will compare the requested missing med against the active medication profile.
3. Pharmacy technicians will notify pharmacists of any discrepancies, questions, or concerns regarding the patient.

Medication Management System:

1. Reads and interprets prescriptions; obtains proper medication or material in the proper strength and dosage form; determines proper amount and counts, pours, or measures the medications; affixes proper label; and records required data on Pharmacy's copy of prescription/order. After a final check by a pharmacist, dispenses medication in ambulatory care, pass, or discharge situations. For unit dose medications, either fills unit dose cart or performs final review of medication prepared by another technician to be dispensed to inpatient areas.
2. Inventories and replenishes medication trays for placement into emergency crash carts
3. Collects drug use evaluation data for quality improvement purposes as assigned.
4. Operates and maintains pharmacy equipment to include automated unit dose dispensing equipment, IV admixture compounders, and remote dispensing cabinets (e.g., Pyxis).
5. Compounds and/or reconstitutes oral or external medications (non-sterile). This includes calculating and converting to proper weights and measures the amount of dr Conducts monthly ward inspections of patient care areas.

Automatic Replenish/Ward Stock:

1. Uses the AR/WS computer program to generate a list of ward medication needs. Processes requests for ward medications, prepares and delivers products according to pharmacy operating procedures.
2. When assigned, will prepare reports from the various Pyxis machines so that a restocking delivery can be prepared. Restocks these carts with the correct drug and quantities.

Controlled Substances:

1. Prepares and fills all inpatient orders and requests for controlled substances.
2. Receive new stock and returned stock into inventory by ensuring the accuracy of controlled drug records.
3. Conducts regularly scheduled inventories and interacts with controlled substance inspection officials.
4. Ensures the pharmacy as well as all delivery transactions for controlled substances are in accordance with applicable controlled substance security regulations.

Intravenous Fluids:

1. Prepares IV admixtures including TPN/PPN, piggybacks, and other sterile products following proper aseptic technique within laminar IV hoods or biological safety cabinets.
2. Prepares IV admixtures in accordance with USP797 principles and other pertinent pharmacy policy and procedures following proper gloving and gowning. Assists with quality checks as required by the USP797 guidelines including hood culturing, product sampling and testing for bacterial growth, and air quality sampling.
3. For the preparation of cancer chemotherapy admixtures, follows special personal safety precautions including the ability to handle accidental chemotherapy spills.
4. Delivers prepared IV medications to the appropriate ward or other location after check by the pharmacist.

Work Schedule: Compressed schedule: 8 days on, 6 days off; 1:30 - midnight, weekends and holidays

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not eligible for Telework

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 12267F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized