Pharmacy Tech - North Loop Retail CommunityPharmacy

Pharmacy Technician

Under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, performs a variety of technical and clerical duties allowable by law, while maintaining a favorable image of the pharmacy within the hospital and in the community.

- Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel

- Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies

- Prepackages, prepares, labels, and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist

- Maintains cash registers, credit card machines, and reporting for cash transactions

- Prepares daily deposits for the cashier's office

- Bills and credits patient medications

- Stocks inventory in Pharmacy

- Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications

- Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled

- Files prescriptions and reports

- Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion

- Enters outpatient prescriptions

- Obtains and records patient drug histories

- Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders, and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate

- Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight

- Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order

- Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed

- Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations, and symbols

- Maintains a working knowledge of general chemical and physical properties of drugs

- Compounding medications as per Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations

- Is responsible for safe and careful handling of chemotherapeutic medications

- Assists with other duties as assigned but only after appropriate training